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Ferry Boat Inn, behind which Gedling Town was based
Gedling Town Football Club was a semi-professional association football club based in Stoke Bardolph in Nottinghamshire , England. Founded in 1985 as R & R Scaffolding, the works team of a construction firm from Netherfield , the club played its first four seasons in amateur football . Between 1990 and 2008, Gedling competed in three Central Midlands Football League divisions and Division One of the Northern Counties East Football League , winning three league titles in the process. Gedling then joined the Premier Division of the East Midlands Counties Football League at the tenth tier of the English football pyramid , in which the club remained until its dissolution in 2011 due to insolvency . Its home ground from the early 1990s was the Riverside Stadium behind the Ferry Boat Inn (pictured) . Tournament records included reaching the third qualifying round of the FA Cup in 2003–04 and the fourth round of the FA Vase in 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2005–06. The team were nicknamed "The Ferrymen", and their colours were primarily yellow and blue. (Full article... )
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