Villa landmarks

[bones.]

Unless you've got hours, or you know exactly where to look, you'll never find George Ramsay's grave.

Any help gratefully recieved. What makes it so difficult?

[dave.woodhall]

Unless you've got hours, or you know exactly where to look, you'll never find George Ramsay's grave.

Any help gratefully recieved. What makes it so difficult?

It's in the middle of a load of totally overgrown and broken-down graves, with no paths anywhere near. If I was there I could probably get to it, but the best description is it's level with one end of the island on the park lake, about fifty yards off the main path.

[Mac]

Ramsey's grave for reference:

[bones.]

Thats a sad picture. Thats pissed me off a bit. Thanks though youve helped me make my mind up what to do before the Burnley game now.

[ez]

Is that the grave on the Proud History Bright Future dvd?

[UK Redsox]

The two spots out side the Trinity Road gates where Legion usually sells H&V.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Ramsey's grave for reference:

What a mess. How much would it cost to get that cleaned, tidied up and maintained once a year ? About £30 ?

PS. Wikipedia has info. here on St Marys, with mentions of Ramsey,McGregor and other notable local figures.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_Church,_Handsworth

Mcgregors grave.

[OzVilla]

Ramsey's grave for reference:

That's not good.  The Club should really do something about that.

[PaulTheVillan]

Rotterdam.

[Dave Cooper please]

Whatever happened to that campaign on VT to get the graves cleaned up?
I assume it was the usual internet enthusiasm followed by complete apathy.

[dave.woodhall]

The problem with renovating the graves is that they would then stand out so much from the rest of the churchyard it would be like having a big sign saying "VANDALISE HERE" pointing to them.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Thats a sad picture. Thats pissed me off a bit. Thanks though youve helped me make my mind up what to do before the Burnley game now.

I've seen it, it's in a bit of a state, the ground is quite worn and dry Bones.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Good news for Sarf East Londoners

Outside of Aston, the most important landmark in Villa's history must be Crystal Palace Park. It hosted 20 FA cup finals before Wembley was built. We won 4 of our FA cups there, beating Albion, Sunderland, Newcastle and Everton. We won 2 of those before Man United even existed!!!!

100,000 plus to see the Villa Newcastle final

Still a fantastic park as well - if a little difficult to get to. I've taken my kids there loads of times ( I get the 122 from Lewisham, takes half an hour).

If any of you do visit, here's a map showing where the football pitch used to be. A weird feeling, knowing your're miles away from home but in the exact spot where Villa made history in 1897

http://www.cocgb.dircon.co.uk/cry_pal_park.htm

[bones.]

Thats a sad picture. Thats pissed me off a bit. Thanks though youve helped me make my mind up what to do before the Burnley game now.

I've seen it, it's in a bit of a state, the ground is quite worn and dry Bones.

I wasnt thinking of doing any digging but thank you anyway.

[ChrissyPrice]

Good news for Sarf East Londoners

Outside of Aston, the most important landmark in Villa's history must be Crystal Palace Park. It hosted 20 FA cup finals before Wembley was built. We won 4 of our FA cups there, beating Albion, Sunderland, Newcastle and Everton. We won 2 of those before Man United even existed!!!!

100,000 plus to see the Villa Newcastle final

Still a fantastic park as well - if a little difficult to get to. I've taken my kids there loads of times ( I get the 122 from Lewisham, takes half an hour).

If any of you do visit, here's a map showing where the football pitch used to be. A weird feeling, knowing your're miles away from home but in the exact spot where Villa made history in 1897

http://www.cocgb.dircon.co.uk/cry_pal_park.htm

Thank you Chico. I'll have to search it out and try and picture the scene. By the way, the walk that covers where the track went from the old Crystal Palace high level station to Nunhead is worth doing, even if has absolutely nothing to do with Aston Villa.