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OCR	STAINLESS STEEL EXHAUSTS FOR ALL MAKES RELIANT SPARES V.W. SPARES DISTRIBUTOR & REPAIRS PENGUIN GARAGE ASKEW ROAD WEST , GATESHEAD.TEL : 773297 From Front Page club and developing it into a potential League club , is more or less signed , sealed and delivered . " ' NO COMMENT ' ON THE FATE OF ORIGINAL BID FOR HALL When asked about the price the club had re ceived , Mr Leighton said : " I cannot comment on spe cific figures . All I can say is that the figure that has been agreed is substantial . It was an offer the board could not honestly refuse , considering the plans we have for the club . " Of course we will not have the full price slapped into our hands all at once . We will receive the money in phases . " It is understood that the club received a holding cheque for £ 40,000 from the developer which was deposited with the club's solicitor . Recently , when asked if the sale of Simonside Hall had run into difficulties which might affect the future of Gateshead United , Mr Leighton repl ied : " Everything in the garden is rosy . " THE HISTORY Coun . Edmund Hill , then a director of the old South Shields AFC , a club which has no connection with the New South Shields Mari pers , bought Simonside Hall in 1953 at a price said at the time to be between £ 6,000 and £ 7,000 . He charged the club a nominal rent , but in 1960 he sold it for £ 10,000 to the Supporters ' Club who at once presented the ground to the football club saying they were doing so so that senior professional football would never die in the town . Shields Gazette and Shipping Telegraph In recent years the club hoped to return to their former home at Horsley Hill Stadium , but this hope fell through . Last year they approached the coun cil for a site in the town on which to build a new stadium , but again were unsuccessful . It was then that a deci sion was taken to move the club to Gateshead , and the switch was announced offi cially at a Press conference at Gateshead Town Hall . Saturday , September 21 , 1974

OCR

STAINLESS STEEL EXHAUSTS
FOR ALL MAKES
RELIANT SPARES V.W. SPARES DISTRIBUTOR & REPAIRS
PENGUIN GARAGE ASKEW ROAD WEST , GATESHEAD.TEL : 773297
From Front Page
club and developing it into a potential League club , is more or less signed , sealed and delivered . "
' NO COMMENT ' ON THE FATE
OF ORIGINAL BID FOR HALL
When asked about the price the club had re ceived , Mr Leighton said : " I cannot comment on spe cific figures . All I can say is that the figure that has been agreed is substantial . It was an offer the board could not honestly refuse , considering the plans we have for the club .
" Of course we will not have the full price slapped into our hands all at once . We will receive the money in phases . "
It is understood that the club received a holding cheque for £ 40,000 from the developer which was deposited with the club's solicitor .
Recently , when asked if the sale of Simonside Hall had run into difficulties which might affect the future of Gateshead United , Mr Leighton repl ied : " Everything in the garden is rosy . "
THE HISTORY
Coun . Edmund Hill , then a director of the old South Shields AFC , a club which has no connection with the New South Shields Mari pers , bought Simonside Hall in 1953 at a price said at the time to be between £ 6,000 and £ 7,000 .
He charged the club a nominal rent , but in 1960 he sold it for £ 10,000 to the Supporters ' Club who at once presented the ground to the football club saying they were doing so so that senior professional football would never die in the town .
Shields Gazette
and Shipping Telegraph
In recent years the club hoped to return to their former home at Horsley Hill Stadium , but this hope fell through . Last year they approached the coun cil for a site in the town on which to build a new stadium , but again were unsuccessful .
It was then that a deci sion was taken to move the club to Gateshead , and the switch was announced offi cially at a Press conference at Gateshead Town Hall .
Saturday , September 21 , 1974