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Title: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 23, 2010, 08:45:32 PM
Someone sent me this link, and I found it quite interesting. Shame some of the photos have been deleted.
The state of some is unbelievable considering the photos aren't that old, well not to me anyway! Strange to think how few of these grounds/stands still exist.

http://www.groundhopping.nl/index.php?topic=19.0
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: Dave P on September 23, 2010, 09:25:27 PM
Some fantastic ones there.  Its facinating to see how grounds have come on in about 15 years.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: Dave Cooper please on September 24, 2010, 10:11:51 AM
I've seen those before, they are great.
Plenty more on that forum as well.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: Deano's Mullet on September 25, 2010, 05:34:42 AM
Fantastic photos but his dates are all over the place. No way did Newcastle's St James Park look like that in 1999 and the New Trinity Road Stand had not been built when we played Leeds in the FA Cup in 2000. Amazing pics though.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 25, 2010, 02:09:46 PM
Fantastic photos but his dates are all over the place. No way did Newcastle's St James Park look like that in 1999 and the New Trinity Road Stand had not been built when we played Leeds in the FA Cup in 2000. Amazing pics though.

By the looks of it, he edited a lot and added more pics to old posts after grounds had built new stands etc.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: Dave Clark Five on September 29, 2010, 07:58:16 AM
Some of those old terraces still bring back memories of aggro which was ever present; the Lever End at Bolton being one of them. 

That Players Tunnel at Vale Park was to have been the centre piece of the Wembley Of The North.

 
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: midlandjohn on October 01, 2010, 11:36:40 PM
If you think those look like old grounds check out this clip for Valley Parade, Brad ford City v Gainsborough Trinity the later who are of course managed by Brian Little.



Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: darren woolley on October 30, 2010, 09:53:54 AM
I really like looking at photo's of old ground's nostalgia.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: Archie on November 24, 2010, 11:15:37 PM
Fantastic pics, thank you for sharing.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: mollyig on January 28, 2011, 10:57:20 AM
If anyone has old photos of Villa Park, please consider sharing them on http://www.flickr.com/groups/avfc/ (http://www.flickr.com/groups/avfc/)
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: russon on January 28, 2011, 05:46:44 PM
Deepdale looked particularly grim on those photos. Thanks for posting, thoroughly enjoyable few minutes that
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: cdbearsfan on January 28, 2011, 07:59:40 PM
If you think those look like old grounds check out this clip for Valley Parade, Brad ford City v Gainsborough Trinity the later who are of course managed by Brian Little.



You can hear Adrian Chiles talking shite on that video, Bradford City switched from Rugby League, not Union.


Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: cdbearsfan on January 28, 2011, 08:00:38 PM
And you can see cdvillafan fucking up a quote in the above post.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: DeKuip on February 15, 2011, 11:17:47 PM
Deepdale looked particularly grim on those photos. Thanks for posting, thoroughly enjoyable few minutes that
Grim? I thought it looked fantastic, that place had so much character. It is grim now though.

Looking through them all brought back some great memories and makes me glad I was born when I was, and got to visit most of them as they're pictured on there. Every ground had something unique about it, and every one was special in its own way.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: atomicjam on February 15, 2011, 11:44:47 PM
Someone sent me this link, and I found it quite interesting. Shame some of the photos have been deleted.
The state of some is unbelievable considering the photos aren't that old, well not to me anyway! Strange to think how few of these grounds/stands still exist.

http://www.groundhopping.nl/index.php?topic=19.0

Really enjoyed looking through those photos. Some crackers from the days when we all stood around on crumbling terraces and had to piss against a wall with a gutter at the bottom that collectively created the male toilet.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: TonyD on June 24, 2011, 12:49:52 AM
Have a look a look of these pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davesid/4103497203/in/photostream/
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: usav on June 24, 2011, 02:11:50 AM
Brilliant pictures....so sad and yet so many great memories at the same time.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: eamonn on June 24, 2011, 02:58:34 AM
Cheers Tony. Incredible pics, really. Deserve their own thread, a lot of people will miss seeing them.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: The Left Side on June 24, 2011, 06:30:25 PM
Ahhhh doesn't it bring a warm glow to your heart, thanks for posting.
Title: Re: Photographs of old grounds
Post by: charlie659 on June 25, 2011, 08:42:54 PM
How the feck people didn't die the day we were all crammed into the corner of that old stand at Swindon (page 3) on promotion day 1988 still amazes me. I was also in the infamous crush at Upton Park (1991?), I still shudder to think what might have transpired had there been perimeter fencing preventing the overspill onto the pitch.
It's nice to look back at some the old grounds and reminisce, but a lof them were death traps and bettter off consigned to rubble.
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