Football Stadiums

spowell92 wrote:

I'd never seen The Dell's Milton Road Stand before doing research for this article! I still can't find out why on earth it was built with that slope though? Brilliantly bizarre!

Before redevelopment.....





I suspect it was constrained by the road outside the ground.

All this nostalgia...

Home Park is going to have a dentists office in one corner - how much more 'originality' do you want?

Rickler wrote:

All this nostalgia...

Home Park is going to have a dentists office in one corner - how much more 'originality' do you want?

A lighthouse?   

Wow! Knecht, those pictures are fantastic!

Have they got a dental surgery a school and a ministand with most of the income space not benefiting the club?................................. Thought not.

But It'll be enough to have bragging rights over Sid James, so that's ok   


Move on ffs ! This club is going to be so fooked and village, it just has to be an embarrassment to any but the jannerazzi on GOS   

spowell92 wrote:

Wow! Knecht, those pictures are fantastic!

Don't they teach you anything at Uni nowadyas?   

I just googled something like "History Dell Southampton".

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/lib/aerofilms-images/public/england/EPW020438.jpg

http://www.agentsmart.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/The-Dell-1966.jpg

knecht wrote:

spowell92 wrote:

Wow! Knecht, those pictures are fantastic!

Don't they teach you anything at Uni nowadyas?   

I just googled something like "History Dell Southampton".

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/lib/aerofilms-images/public/england/EPW020438.jpg

http://www.agentsmart.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/The-Dell-1966.jpg

To busy enjoying himself Knecht!  

Good for him, if that's true. That's what being a student should be about.

Rickler wrote:

All this nostalgia...

Home Park is going to have a dentists office in one corner - how much more 'originality' do you want?

Seriously though... A dentist in one corner and a school in another...

How can anybody even begin to think this is a good idea?

If it was funny it'd be a comedy but it isn't so I guess that makes it a tragedy.

Which sounds about right.

Going over all this, I'm most certainly thankful that the second phase of the Home Park bowl never took place! It has really made me appreciate the Grandstand for all her decrepit beauty. She could do with a face lift, for certain, but she really gives Home Park some character. If only common sense would prevail and we be able to reintroduce standing to the Mayflower steps. Fix the corners of the ground, and a bit of renovation of the Grandstand structure and facilities and I'd say we'd have one of the best grounds in the country.

I have stood on the Mayflower Steps many times.

Look at Dundee Utd's ground on Google Maps. Dundee's ground is 250 yards down the road. It looks really stupid from the air. Liverpool and Everton's grounds are fairly close but Dundee's two grounds are virtually wall to wall.

Also...




The Valley has quite a good resurgem story behind it and it's an interesting story of belonging.

I'd hate to see us move to an out of town stadium.

I just Googled that, they have to be the closest grounds in England's suburbs?

They still have plenty of room for a dentist, maybe even a veterinary practise as well.

hairy j wrote:

Look at Dundee Utd's ground on Google Maps. Dundee's ground is 250 yards down the road. It looks really stupid from the air. Liverpool and Everton's grounds are fairly close but Dundee's two grounds are virtually wall to wall.

Also...




The Valley has quite a good resurgem story behind it and it's an interesting story of belonging.

I'd hate to see us move to an out of town stadium.

You forgot about Dundee Violet FC down the road the other way!

spowell92 wrote:

Going over all this, I'm most certainly thankful that the second phase of the Home Park bowl never took place! It has really made me appreciate the Grandstand for all her decrepit beauty. She could do with a face lift, for certain, but she really gives Home Park some character. If only common sense would prevail and we be able to reintroduce standing to the Mayflower steps. Fix the corners of the ground, and a bit of renovation of the Grandstand structure and facilities and I'd say we'd have one of the best grounds in the country.

You need certifying...

Rickler wrote:

gasser9 wrote:

knecht wrote:

I never went to Northampton's old ground - where they actually played in the old First Division - but from the pictures I've seen that was certainly a ground with character! The new Sixfields is an awful place!

You never missed anything Knecht. If there was such a thing as an old soul less ground this was it. They had one end which was the hotel end behind the goal which you could probably compare with the old Devonport End but apart from that nothing.
One end was completely open and one side was completely open as this where Northants CC played their cricket and the grandstand was nothing to write home about either.
As bland as is it Sixfields is still a vast improvement on the old County Ground.

Never missed anything?

I can't imagine a ground like that anywhere else in the world?

Think Tothill Park and you won't be far away.

Have a look at the picture below as mouldy says three football grounds very very close.

I thought that other one was a shared training ground when I looked.

I think it is but its also used by a local lower league team

Rickler wrote:

spowell92 wrote:

Going over all this, I'm most certainly thankful that the second phase of the Home Park bowl never took place! It has really made me appreciate the Grandstand for all her decrepit beauty. She could do with a face lift, for certain, but she really gives Home Park some character. If only common sense would prevail and we be able to reintroduce standing to the Mayflower steps. Fix the corners of the ground, and a bit of renovation of the Grandstand structure and facilities and I'd say we'd have one of the best grounds in the country.

You need certifying...

  

Good thread Spolly.

One ground move which left me really scratching my head, was when Coventry City left Highfield Road. A ground with so much character through all of its redevelopments over the years.

This is Highfield Road back in 1987, before the redevelopment into all seater stadium.


Now some will say Highfield Road was one of the first modern all seater stadiums anyway, part of the 1980s/1990s Thatcher era of all seaters. But to me the ground had plenty of character. 4 different stands, different sizes, different gradients. A ground buried in a housing estate, embedded in the community that the club represented - and a short walk from the city centre.





Argyle went there in what must have been 2004/2005 time. We scored courtesy of Henry of the Westcountry lobbing their keeper from about 40 yards.

When Coventry City decided to leave that place it was baffling. To invest all that money in a plush new stadium that added all of 9,000 to the capacity, to go and play your home matches in a large car park, on an industrial estate plonked by the motorway. When I went to Reading I hated it - got there by train, needed a 5 mile bus from the train station to the Madejski, a soulless industrial estate plonked by a motorway in the middle of nowhere. It was an awful matchday experience - and by and large, I avoid those soulless domes now.



That decision by Coventry City looks to have practically crippled the club. I am still not sure what they are looking to do long term with regards to finding a home ground.  

And now they play here, 40 miles away, and in administration.

http://www.evostikleague.co.uk/quakers-could-be-home-by-august-19161/

There's a stadium story to rank against any.

Inglis's book is a must as a reference point as is this Twitter account https://twitter.com/Groundtastic

If Brent builds anything I'll be amazed, he's the least productive property developer in the history of property developing, feck me Porky was right all along.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

http://www.evostikleague.co.uk/quakers-could-be-home-by-august-19161/

There's a stadium story to rank against any.

Inglis's book is a must as a reference point as is this Twitter account https://twitter.com/Groundtastic

Fascinating - well worth a browse.

I was especially caught by this picture..... and no it's not an early shot of Nottingham Forest's ground.

knecht wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

http://www.evostikleague.co.uk/quakers-could-be-home-by-august-19161/

There's a stadium story to rank against any.

Inglis's book is a must as a reference point as is this Twitter account https://twitter.com/Groundtastic

Fascinating - well worth a browse.

I was especially caught by this picture..... and no it's not an early shot of Nottingham Forest's ground.

Third Lanark.Remember them vaguely from when i was a bhey-they were at one time a very decent Scottish top level side,probably the equivalent of Aberdeen or Hibs now,who were screwed up by some property developer who deliberately ran the club into the earth.  Bit more about the ground here;

https://llandudnojetset.wordpress.com/tag/the-old-world-just-gets-in-the-way/