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Title: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: TonyD on January 31, 2018, 10:04:28 PM
Hi everyone,

Please look and see if you can find any good pictures/ photos of the old Holte full. I am looking to get a big poster for my summer house.  Any photos of the AV floodlights on taken from behind the Holte would be great. Cheers!   Mods, maybe this could be a sticky?
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 31, 2018, 10:19:07 PM
(https://robosvillablog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/holte_end_751.jpg?w=520)
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 31, 2018, 10:22:54 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkUNUbKIMAAoGBL.jpg)

Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: TonyD on January 31, 2018, 10:31:48 PM
Cheers guys! Keep them coming.  I also had a great photo of Sid with the cup at Rotterdam as my wallpaper but lost it. I have seen a few with the cup on Sid’s head but the one I had was with Sid grinning and hanging the cup nonchalantly to his left leg.  I found it on the net about 10 years ago.  It was a great colour photo.  I can’t find it again. 
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: Rudy65 on January 31, 2018, 10:34:44 PM
(https://robosvillablog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/holte_end_751.jpg?w=520)

Beautiful. I might have been in that picture somewhere
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: TonyD on January 31, 2018, 10:40:45 PM
Great pic before the middle fences went in.  I saw a big colour photo of this a while ago on the net but can’t find it.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 31, 2018, 10:43:35 PM
Pretty sure if it was colour that it's been doctored. Most likely a b&w Terry Weir photo.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: TonyD on January 31, 2018, 11:05:12 PM
No it was definitely colour.  Lost it when I binned my old PC. Gutted.  It made me smile every morning.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: Scratchins on February 01, 2018, 08:37:42 AM

(http://thumb.ibb.co/f6pAER/47.jpg) (http://ibb.co/f6pAER)

(http://thumb.ibb.co/gere8m/53.jpg) (http://ibb.co/gere8m)

(http://thumb.ibb.co/e8ogM6/1.jpg) (http://ibb.co/e8ogM6)

(http://thumb.ibb.co/gC1OZR/4.jpg) (http://ibb.co/gC1OZR)

(http://thumb.ibb.co/d1jXTm/8a.jpg) (http://ibb.co/d1jXTm)

(http://thumb.ibb.co/kceAER/11.jpg) (http://ibb.co/kceAER)

Not all of these fit your criteria but you may find them interesting.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: Legion on February 01, 2018, 09:24:53 AM
Plenty here (https://www.facebook.com/pg/handv/photos/)
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: SirSteveUK on February 02, 2018, 11:16:52 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkUNUbKIMAAoGBL.jpg)



That is surely one of the greatest pictures ever taken at a football ground. Absolutely amazing - capacity 25k+ ??

My favourite VP picture
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: Godfrey Brian on February 03, 2018, 10:08:58 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkUNUbKIMAAoGBL.jpg)



Bolton v Charlton FA Cup semi final 1946. Superb photo.

In the mid 1970s I can remember being at a match where the Holte was photographed for an advertising campaign for Ansells Bitter (Ansells Bittermen-you cant't beat 'em,  so join them!). The images went up on full sized billboards around the area the following season.  They were pretty impressive as well.


Quote fail !
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: dave.woodhall on February 03, 2018, 12:11:07 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkUNUbKIMAAoGBL.jpg)



That is surely one of the greatest pictures ever taken at a football ground. Absolutely amazing - capacity 25k+ ??

My favourite VP picture

According to Simon Inglis it had a theoretical capacity of 40,000.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: Flamingo Lane on February 04, 2018, 02:57:20 PM
Here's one I like.
(http://thumb.ibb.co/dzw2qc/Villa_Park_1966_2.jpg) (http://ibb.co/dzw2qc)
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: Flamingo Lane on February 04, 2018, 03:03:58 PM
And for those who experienced it, this is a cracker.


(http://thumb.ibb.co/je3eLc/images6_E4_UORNI.jpg) (http://ibb.co/je3eLc)


Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: West Derby Villan on February 04, 2018, 07:25:18 PM
Brilliant photo, memories come flooding back, thanks FL.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: wittonwarrior on February 05, 2018, 12:29:37 AM
And for those who experienced it, this is a cracker.


(http://thumb.ibb.co/je3eLc/images6_E4_UORNI.jpg) (http://ibb.co/je3eLc)


To to have lived it to appreciate this photo.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: Towser on February 05, 2018, 09:47:33 AM
Cheers guys! Keep them coming.  I also had a great photo of Sid with the cup at Rotterdam as my wallpaper but lost it. I have seen a few with the cup on Sid’s head but the one I had was with Sid grinning and hanging the cup nonchalantly to his left leg.  I found it on the net about 10 years ago.  It was a great colour photo.  I can’t find it again. 

Wasn't this one was it?
(http://thumb.ibb.co/fAbQDx/JS51616160.jpg) (http://ibb.co/fAbQDx)
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: Holte L2 on February 05, 2018, 11:34:14 AM
And for those who experienced it, this is a cracker.


(http://thumb.ibb.co/je3eLc/images6_E4_UORNI.jpg) (http://ibb.co/je3eLc)


To to have lived it to appreciate this photo.

God, takes me back to my childhood immediately.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: ez on February 05, 2018, 06:31:02 PM
And for those who experienced it, this is a cracker.


(http://thumb.ibb.co/je3eLc/images6_E4_UORNI.jpg) (http://ibb.co/je3eLc)


To to have lived it to appreciate this photo.

God, takes me back to my childhood immediately.


Takes a bow.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: E I Adio on February 12, 2018, 03:44:42 PM
Here's one I like.
(http://thumb.ibb.co/dzw2qc/Villa_Park_1966_2.jpg) (http://ibb.co/dzw2qc)


If that was the 1966 W. Germany v Argentina World Cup game, then I'm on that pic.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: TonyD on February 13, 2018, 05:22:24 PM
Cheers guys! Keep them coming.  I also had a great photo of Sid with the cup at Rotterdam as my wallpaper but lost it. I have seen a few with the cup on Sid’s head but the one I had was with Sid grinning and hanging the cup nonchalantly to his left leg.  I found it on the net about 10 years ago.  It was a great colour photo.  I can’t find it again. 

Wasn't this one was it?
(http://thumb.ibb.co/fAbQDx/JS51616160.jpg) (http://ibb.co/fAbQDx)

Cheers guys! Keep them coming.  I also had a great photo of Sid with the cup at Rotterdam as my wallpaper but lost it. I have seen a few with the cup on Sid’s head but the one I had was with Sid grinning and hanging the cup nonchalantly to his left leg.  I found it on the net about 10 years ago.  It was a great colour photo.  I can’t find it again. 

Wasn't this one was it?
(http://thumb.ibb.co/fAbQDx/JS51616160.jpg) (http://ibb.co/fAbQDx)

No pal.  It was taken after we the cup in Rotterdam. Sid looking about 12 in the all white kit.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: steamer on February 20, 2018, 07:06:24 PM
And for those who experienced it, this is a cracker.


(http://thumb.ibb.co/je3eLc/images6_E4_UORNI.jpg) (http://ibb.co/je3eLc)


To to have lived it to appreciate this photo.

God, takes me back to my childhood immediately.


You mean it has changed ?
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: D.boy on February 24, 2018, 11:37:09 PM
I remember climbing up to the point where the metal beams meet the brickwork and watching several games in the early 80s' from my perch.
I also recall the burning of opposition scarves that were draped from the beams.
Title: Re: Old Holte End pictures, Please dig out and post!!
Post by: ez on February 25, 2018, 11:27:45 AM
I remember climbing up to the point where the metal beams meet the brickwork and watching several games in the early 80s' from my perch.
I also recall the burning of opposition scarves that were draped from the beams.

Yes I remember climbing up there too. Sometimes the old bill would would get you down again.
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