Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Lucky Eddie on February 19, 2016, 07:18:44 PM
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Before it got its roof could you see the tilton or The Rotunda from he back of The Holte End?
Cheers
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Before it got its roof could you see the tilton or The Rotunda from he back of The Holte End?
Cheers
What a strange question. No idea about the Rotunda but the tilton? You must be joking it was and still is tiny!
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Not old enough to know for sure, but as far as I know the roof was put on the Holte in 1962 and the Rotunda, although work started in 1961 wasn't finished until 1965 so i'd have thought it unlikely.
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Not old enough to know for sure, but as far as I know the roof was put on the Holte in 1962 and the Rotunda, although work started in 1961 wasn't finished until 1965 so i'd have thought it unlikely.
And another dogshitter windup dies.
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Lucky Eddie's no Nose. He's been posting here for ages.
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Eddie has been on here for a good 10 years so I very much doubt he's one of them.
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As a side issue I was once told that Ron Saunders' office when he went over there faced Villa Park.
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I'm not Prepared to grace that scandalous accusation with a response.
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Actually I will, 'how very fucking dare you Sir?'
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If you stood at the top of The Holte on the Trinity Road side and looked dogshitwards I have calculated a distance of 2.344 miles as the crow flies to the nearest point of the tilton.
Why any self respecting crow would want to fly in that direction once it was perched at Villa Park is another question.
I would like to make two claims:-
1) First person on here to know this distance
2) First use on here of the word `dogshitwards`.
https://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm
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Wouldn't the slope of Aston Park get in the way of both?
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Wouldn't the slope of Aston Park get in the way of both?
Any little terraced house that stands between the Holte and St Andrex would block the view of that mother of all shitholes. (Fortunately)
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I used to see the IMI factory
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I used to see the IMI factory
That's very helpful. Thanks for that.
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Wouldn't the slope of Aston Park get in the way of both?
Aston Park is the other side of the ground to the Sty isn't it?
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Wouldn't the slope of Aston Park get in the way of both?
Looking at the map, you're right. Thankfully, Small Heath was obscured from view.
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Wouldn't the slope of Aston Park get in the way of both?
Aston Park is the other side of the ground to the Sty isn't it?
It is if my sense of direction's been frigged for the last 30+ years.
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Wouldn't the slope of Aston Park get in the way of both?
Aston Park is the other side of the ground to the Sty isn't it?
It is if my sense of direction's been frigged for the last 30+ years.
No wonder I can't find my way home after a few.
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I used to see the IMI factory
Aye, especially night matches, with the red logo lit up. And, unless my mind's playing tricks, you could see Barr Beacon on the horizon, in the same general direction.
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A crow flying direct from the Rear Trinity Corner of The Holte dogshitwards would fly just past the North East Corner of Aston Hall passing over the Lichfield - Birmingham railway line approximately 250 yards south of Vauxhall railway station before reaching its destination of the Tilton Road stand.
Assuming of course that it didn't hit Saltley Gas Works on it's journey. Splat ! Serves you right for wanting to go there you stupid fucking bluenose crow !
(http://c8.alamy.com/comp/AFWB73/a-view-of-the-famous-saltley-gas-works-with-residential-tower-blocks-AFWB73.jpg)
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Wouldn't the slope of Aston Park get in the way of both?
Aston Park is the other side of the ground to the Sty isn't it?
It is if my sense of direction's been frigged for the last 30+ years.
No wonder I can't find my way home after a few.
Hahaha.
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Before it got its roof could you see the tilton or The Rotunda from he back of The Holte End?
Cheers
Erm, the Holte End got it's roof in 1962 - Rotunda built in 1965. Spot anything obvious?
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Before it got its roof could you see the tilton or The Rotunda from he back of The Holte End?
Cheers
Erm, the Holte End got it's roof in 1962 - Rotunda built in 1965. Spot anything obvious?
Got in before me. Besides, it begs the question, who the hell would want to? The Sty; that is.
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Before it got its roof could you see the tilton or The Rotunda from he back of The Holte End?
Cheers
Erm, the Holte End got it's roof in 1962 - Rotunda built in 1965. Spot anything obvious?
Errrrrrm - cheers smart arse.
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And why exactly would you want to see that.
The first time I ever went to St Andrews was for the 3-2 defeat towards the end of the first season back in Div 1 75/76 - what struck me was the amount of house bricks outside in the rubble - proper dump then, absolute shit hole now.
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Before it got its roof could you see the tilton or The Rotunda from he back of The Holte End?
Cheers
Erm, the Holte End got it's roof in 1962 - Rotunda built in 1965. Spot anything obvious?
Like the same thing being pointed out yesterday?
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Before it got its roof could you see the tilton or The Rotunda from he back of The Holte End?
Cheers
Erm, the Holte End got it's roof in 1962 - Rotunda built in 1965. Spot anything obvious?
Like the same thing being pointed out yesterday?
In fact, I pointed it out in 1960 before it was built after it came to me in a vision. I think I had mumps or measles at the time and I remember the patterns on the wallpaper were moving.
I remember having an interview for a job on a high floor in the Rotunda in 1971.
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Dogshitwards is my favourite word of the week.
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John 'Oracle' Russell has pointed out that you couldn't see anything from the back of the open Holte (or Aston as it was then) End because the wall was too high. He also told me that "It used to be possible to stand on the zebra crossing at the junction of Warren Road and Hawthorn Road in Kingstanding and see the floodlights at The Hawthorns, Villa Park and St Andrews."
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John 'Oracle' Russell has pointed out that you couldn't see anything from the back of the open Holte (or Aston as it was then) End because the wall was too high. He also told me that "It used to be possible to stand on the zebra crossing at the junction of Warren Road and Hawthorn Road in Kingstanding and see the floodlights at The Hawthorns, Villa Park and St Andrews."
Now that us a cracking fact
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I used to see the IMI factory
Aye, especially night matches, with the red logo lit up. And, unless my mind's playing tricks, you could see Barr Beacon on the horizon, in the same general direction.
You could see the trees at Barr Beacon and Barr Beacon school from the top right of the Holte End.
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You could also see a match worth watching from the Holte a few years ago...
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is IMI still in business ?
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is IMI still in business ?
Yup, they're now in Birmingham Business Park which is some black hole in the south of the city.
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John 'Oracle' Russell has pointed out that you couldn't see anything from the back of the open Holte (or Aston as it was then) End because the wall was too high. He also told me that "It used to be possible to stand on the zebra crossing at the junction of Warren Road and Hawthorn Road in Kingstanding and see the floodlights at The Hawthorns, Villa Park and St Andrews."
Now that us a cracking fact
It sure is, thank you.
I lived just off Dyas Hill and you could certainly still see the olbiyun.
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John 'Oracle' Russell has pointed out that you couldn't see anything from the back of the open Holte (or Aston as it was then) End because the wall was too high.
They seem to be sat on the top of the wall here.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BENTh3vCMAAlMjp.jpg)
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Blackpool vs Spurs 1953 is my guess. Lovely to see the old Holte full.