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Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: le god cuervo on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 16:40:34 have been sorting out old junk in my bedroom today & found a load of old county ground pics from when they demolished the old shrivenham road stand.
i thought i would be nice and post them up here for everyone to look at seeing how you all took a lot of interest the last time i did it on the thisis site... http://www.thisisstfc.co.uk/forum_new/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19969&whichpage=1 - yes i know all the links are broke now anyway, this is the old stand... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/shriv_road1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/shriv_road2.jpg coming down... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/demolishion1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/demolishion2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/demolishion3.jpg going up... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/intel_build1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/intel_build2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/intel_build3.jpg finished (& full which makes a change!)... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/intel.jpg i found some other pics too - this is from when we played aston villa in the fa cup around 1991? they built the tv studio on stratton bank & everyone threw stuff at it if i remember right http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/bank_tv.jpg north stand the same day - look at the nice concrete dugouts... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/northstand1.jpg and finally, a model of how the county ground was supposed to be developed when they built the intel stand. stratton bank was going to be the same but they never got planning permission... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/model.jpg thats all folks Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: yeo on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 16:43:50 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/shriv_road1.jpg
Fucking ace! Thats where I used to stand taunting the away fans 8) and chucking stuff at them.Brilliant work le god cuervo Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: magicroundabout on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 16:46:59 i never saw that model of the stratton bank. Looks prety cool though.
Wish they would sort something out for the new development. I was there in the stratton bank v Villa. Only 13 at the time but was mad as fuck. I remember at half time the biggest bloke i ever did see needed the loo and someone shouted "fat bastard coming through". Laughed my tits off. (well i thought it was funny as i was 13) Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: le god cuervo on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 17:00:36 that model was there when i went on a school trip to the CG...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/model2.jpg would have been quality if they built it Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: Reg Smeeton on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 17:00:41 Top stuff....I've got a load of photos of the Shrivenham Road coming down somewhere which I thought about posting up...no need to bother now :)
Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: sonicyouth on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 17:08:46 that's ace, cheers! where'd you get them?
Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: Reg Smeeton on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 17:10:05 Think its something called a camera SY.
Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: sonicyouth on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 17:13:45 oops. I didn't realise the pictures of the stand coming down were from outside, I thought he was stood on the pitch taking them :oops:
Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: Spencer_White on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 18:04:15 The Shrivvy road had been comming down in installments for about 50 years hadnt it?
Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: Ben Wah Balls on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 18:15:03 Great stuff. I'd almost forgotten what the shrivvy road looked like. I remember all the hooligans like Yeovil standing in that standing bit next to the stratton bank, very passionate support they created a great atmosphere.
Stand was shite compared to the nationwide stand though, I went to check on its progress a few times when they were building it but don't think I have any photos. Shame they never replaced the stratton bank. Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: Johno on Sunday, May 22, 2005, 21:42:21 great pics mate as i never saw the old stands. 8)
Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: le god cuervo on Monday, May 23, 2005, 09:05:46 Quote from: "Reg Smeeton" Top stuff....I've got a load of photos of the Shrivenham Road coming down somewhere which I thought about posting up...no need to bother now :) post them anyway, its always good to see different stuff Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: Compo on Monday, May 23, 2005, 10:02:25 Remember that silly chain link fence that devided the stooopid away fans and us.................they were the days :beers:
Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: Leggett on Monday, May 23, 2005, 15:19:17 ah im too wee, i dont remember that :oops:
Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: Northern Red on Monday, May 23, 2005, 15:36:15 A bit of information about the old Shrivenham Road stand (aka the Aldershot stand).
It wasn't actually standing for that long (I saw someone mention falling down over 50 years) It was originally the main stand at Aldershot and was deconstructed, shoved on a lorry, driven to the CG and reconstructed :o It was actually constructed over the original concrete terrace which had always been there - so while the top bit was new-ish, the bottom bit was stood on by Harold Fleming's fans (and Reg :soapy tit wank: ) way back when... The new bottom section of the Arkell's made such a difference when it went in - unfortunately the pitch was narrowed to fit it in :( Title: a trip down memory lane - old pics... Post by: reeves4england on Monday, May 23, 2005, 16:12:32 Great pics there!
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