Olive Grove 
1887-1899

Wednesday first real home was built on poorly drained land next to the railway tracks along Queen's Road. As with Bramall Lane, the land was leased from the Duke of Norfolk - for an unfortunately short lease.

    The ground was prepared and a small enclosure prepared. The pitch was surrounded by an iron railing, and a wide cinder standing surface (on three sides - the fourth side which ran along the railway track and was very narrow had a stand which could accommodate around a 1000 spectators).

There appears to be only one photo of Olive Grove (at the bottom of the page) at least as far as I have ever seen, and that actually appears to be a picture of someone's allotment which just happens to have Olive Grove in the background - so there's not a lot of visuals to go on. However I think that this is roughly the lay out.

    The ground provided Wednesday with a good, if small, ground for their early years in the Alliance and Football Leagues, but Wednesday were in for a shock just before the turn of the century. Rather than renew the lease, Wednesday found they were required to move after the area of Olive Grove had been sold to the Midland Railway for extra tracks.

    It is interesting to speculate was would have happened if they had had a longer lease. Wednesday and United would have grounds at either end of Bramall Lane and have been as close as any two teams in the country (except for the Dundee's in Scotland).