Worksop Cricket and Football Clubs combined together and built a sports ground with separate cricket and football grounds, tennis courts and a quarter mile cinder bicycle track. Football matches were played on the eastern side of the ground and cricket matches on the western side. The ground needed draining, enclosing and a pavilion to be built, it was finished in 1891 and became known as the Newcastle Avenue ground.
The first sports on the ground was a meeting organised by Worksop Cricket and Football Clubs on Whit Monday 18th May 1891, it was a fine but cold day and 5,000 spectators attended. Bicycle races were included at the sports.
On Easter Monday 1892 there was a Grand Bicycle Sports and football match and the ‘Splendid cinder track which been lately greatly improved at a large outlay.' In the 1892 Whit Monday sports there were four bicycle races, half and one mile open handicap races, a one mile novices handicap and a two miles 4 man team race with Worksop against Gainsborough. The last race was the most popular with the crowd which numbered over 5,000.
Worksop Town Cycling Club held a twenty miles handicap race with Worksop Tradesmen's Cycling Club on 17th September 1892, there were 25 starters and 2,000 spectators. Both the Easter Monday and the Whit Monday sports became annual events.
The 1900 Worksop Cricket Club sports had glorious weather which resulted in another large attendance of 5,000 and record gate receipts totalling £129. The cycling track was in ‘splendid condition' and local man G Rawson of Worksop CC won the open one mile bicycle handicap race to take the Duke of Portland's prize** whilst setting a track record time of 2m 5.2s. The other bicycle races were a half mile open handicap and a one mile novices handicap. In the evening there was dancing to the Worksop Brass Band.
Worksop football and cricket clubs moved in 1901 to the fields next door and set up a combined stadium which became known as the Central Avenue ground. The new ground was between the River Ryton and Chesterfield canal and was owned by William Josiah Moore of the Dragons brewery in Bridge Street. Moore died and the occupiers of the Newcastle Avenue ground and the Central Avenue ground exchanged leases to enable the swap in venues.
The Newcastle Avenue ground was let for cattle grazing after 1901 and then was built on, creating Hardy, Allen and King Streets.
** The Duke of Portland's prize each year was an 18 carat gold watch, value £10, inscribed "Worksop Cricket Club, Whit Monday