Old and lost grounds.

[suttonred]

I always liked the Shrivvy enclosure and was sad to see the old south stand go. Did we ever have to postpone a game due to the risk of it collapsing in high winds, or was it just the stand that got closed for the day?

The seats were quite often closed. I can remember one game at least being called off due to high winds, and the stand being cited as being dangerous. I never actually went up in the seats, did anyone ever sit there? Was it as manky as it looked from below?

[Peter Venkman]

Found a picture of the Old Valley stand, the East Terrace.

[url width=450 height=330]http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2005/07/15/east_terrace3_old_450x330.jpg[/url]

[Peter Venkman]

Oh and found another I had long forgotten about, the old Molyneaux and Wolverhampton, massive home end.

Here is a pic 1 filled and one empty

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[url width=625 height=315]http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/bank.jpg[/url]

[Arriba]

yeah wolves is a good shout.we used to stand in the bit to the left of the bottom picture.
i'm sure charltons gorund had a capacity of 73,000 back in the day.

[chalkies_shorts]

The seats were quite often closed. I can remember one game at least being called off due to high winds, and the stand being cited as being dangerous. I never actually went up in the seats, did anyone ever sit there? Was it as manky as it looked from below?

I sat in the seats a few times in the early 70's. I can't remember them being manky but I was probably glad to sit down after climbing up those steps.

[suttonred]

yeah wolves is a good shout.we used to stand in the bit to the left of the bottom picture.
i'm sure charltons gorund had a capacity of 73,000 back in the day.

In the semi final there at Wolves. I started up in the top right of the away bit, after we scored, I ended up with my face pressed against the fence at the bottom. Scary but exhilerating as a young lad.

[thepeoplesgame]

I went in both in the mid 60's....the Holte End, when Town played Forest in a 3rd FA Cup match on a neutral ground, along with about 20,000 other Town fans....somewhat awesome.

The Wednesday Kop when Town played them in the cup.  Going in there was a mistake, some kindly policeman escorted us to where the other Town fans were stood at the other end 

Back then the TE seemed massive to me....bit of a shock to see these legendary terraces close up.

We had a trip organised by the under-14s football team I played for to go and see Villa play Liverpool back in the eighties. I think our parents probably all waved us off assuming we were set fair for some nice seats in some sort of family stand, but the reality when we got there was that we were all on the Holte End with two blokes to look out for the lot of us. It was fucking brilliant.

[melksham_exile]

I enjoyed Fulham's old terracing when I went. That might be because it was one of my first away matches though. 0-0 until the last minute and then Louis Saha popped up with a winner (what a cunt!) if I remember correctly. Seeing as though you don't see much terracing around these days, I've always thought the tight Yeovil away end's got good potential. We never seem to be that loud down there though

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I like this photo.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Stretford_end_1992.JPG

That's a good one. I stood pretty close to where that picture was taken the first time I went to Old Trafford. I think it was £2.20 to get in and the programme was 50p. At the time, it cost £2.00 to get in at Swindon. How times change.

[Bob's Orange]

I went on a tour of Fenway park yesterday, oldest stadium in baseball. Apparenty they've sold out every game since 2003 there.

Sorry it's not really related but bored at Boston Logan watchin espn talk about Brett Favre for about the 20th time this hour!

[THE FLASH]

The Old Goldstone was a laugh.....remember seeing us play shite and still win.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I went on a tour of Fenway park yesterday, oldest stadium in baseball. Apparenty they've sold out every game since 2003 there.

Sorry it's not really related but bored at Boston Logan watchin espn talk about Brett Favre for about the 20th time this hour!

I'd love to go to a game at Fenway.

[Bob's Orange]

I'd love to go to a game at Fenway.

Even though I know nothing about baseball, the tour (which was free) was really
interesting. The story about them not winning the world
series in 86 years which seemed to be attributed to babe ruth being sold to the Yankees didn't seem
that far fetched. The guide had loads of good stories and we got to sit on the green monster, great story when a Yankee hit a hr over it, some guy in the street threw it back. Some Yankee ran on and chucked it back over only for the ball to come back again determined not to keep a Yankee hr ball. Their rivalry is fairly fierce from
what I've learnt.

[jonny72]

The seats were quite often closed. I can remember one game at least being called off due to high winds, and the stand being cited as being dangerous. I never actually went up in the seats, did anyone ever sit there? Was it as manky as it looked from below?

I sat up there once, school organised trip to watch a game during the 82/83 season (I think) - seem to recall it being a bit of a scary experience.

Wasn't it second hand when we got it, from the Aldershot forces show ground? Or did I make that up?

[Morgan Freeman]

The old Bloomfield Road looked quite impressive to me:
[url width=298 height=288]http://tomhalltravel.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/o-be-joyful.jpg[/url]