a trip down memory lane - old pics...

[le god cuervo]

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

[yeo]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/shriv_road1.jpg

Fucking ace!  Thats where I used to stand taunting the away fans  and chucking stuff at them.Brilliant work le god cuervo

[magicroundabout]

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)

[le god cuervo]

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

[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  

[sonicyouth]

that's ace, cheers! where'd you get them?

[Reg Smeeton]

Think its something called a camera SY.

[sonicyouth]

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  

[Spencer_White]

The Shrivvy road had been comming down in installments for about 50 years hadnt it?

[Ben Wah Balls]

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.

[Johno]

great pics mate as i never saw the old stands.  

[le god cuervo]

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

[Compo]

Remember that silly chain link fence that devided the stooopid away fans and us.................they were the days  

[Leggett]

ah im too wee, i dont remember that  

[Northern Red]

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  
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   ) 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