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Offline levico

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Re: If only...
« Reply #45 on: November 28, 2013, 05:38:25 PM »
If only I hadn't trusted that fart.


Sorry.

Offline Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Re: If only...
« Reply #46 on: November 28, 2013, 08:19:12 PM »
What if there hadn't been a gaslight in Heathfield Road ?

Offline littlevillain

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Re: If only...
« Reply #47 on: November 30, 2013, 01:38:31 AM »
If only we'd left the trinity road stand alone and had it protected historically

It would have fallen down.             They could have kept it if they wanted to.

Offline dave.woodhall

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Re: If only...
« Reply #48 on: November 30, 2013, 02:02:06 AM »
If only we'd left the trinity road stand alone and had it protected historically

It would have fallen down.             They could have kept it if they wanted to.

Of course they could. It was completely unsuitable, increasingly dangerous and meant that the ground had more obstructed view seats than any other in Britain, but  they could have always kept it.

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Re: If only...
« Reply #49 on: November 30, 2013, 02:08:02 AM »
I was there on the day they knocked it down.
In The Corner Flag restaurant.
Surreal.

Offline Irish villain

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Re: If only...
« Reply #50 on: November 30, 2013, 11:15:41 AM »
If only we'd left the trinity road stand alone and had it protected historically

It would have fallen down.             They could have kept it if they wanted to.

Of course they could. It was completely unsuitable, increasingly dangerous and meant that the ground had more obstructed view seats than any other in Britain, but  they could have always kept it.

Wasn't the original intention to simply remove the roof and replace it with a cantilever? I seem to remember that being suggested about four years before the stand was demolished.

It is a great pity the new stand didn't pay homage to the old in some way. Why built a beautiful, almost timeless, new Holte End only to go back to something very noughties for the new Trinity? I felt they should have built a classy facade into the new Trinity.
 

 


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