Another great photo.Here's a picture in more recent years of the Kop
In summer maybe, not so packed in winter as I remember?Use to stand up the cop and get lifted off my feet and move down several rows the crowds were so big back in the mid 60's and into the first 10 years of the first division.
Is that why everyone used to pee against the wall(s)?:$
Oooh Young Man !!!I don't think I can remember anything other than it being all seater
Do remember the strange corporate boxes next to the West Terrace though!
Actually back in the 70's I think it was, there were plans to develop the spion Kop and build a massive new stand over Swan Lane,
With the road going underneath the the stand. Which would have increased the capacity of Highfield road massively
And then no need to build the Ricoh. !!! If only.
Oooh Young Man !!!
Think we purchased that block of exec boxes from Twickenham.
That seems unbelievably big, the Holte End was the largest open (kop) terrace in theThe plan was to build a stand which held up to 28,000 - 18,000 standing and 10,000 seats. Eventually the ground would hold over 65,000.
Did they replace the boxes at the front of the main stand, I can't remember.They were really random.
Just as if they had been taken from a beach and plonked there.
Jim Brown's book "Ghosts of a vanished stadium " mentions it. The telegraph reported in 1970 that chairman Derek Robbins announced plans were at an "advanced stage" for the development. We were to become the "Real Madrid of England" ........as has proved to be . :happy:That seems unbelievably big, the Holte End was the largest open (kop) terrace in the
Country with just over 30.000 but all standing, kop at Anfield, kop at Hillsboro and the
Southbank at Wolves not far behind, none of those contained seats.
Have you any link to this. Cheers
Lovely clean lines as Darcy Bussell would say.Its these ones I mean:
Yeah that's the ones, I'm sure we got them from Twickenham, before that there was a rowIts these ones I mean:
Its these ones I mean:
Jees! That would have been massive, the kop at anfield has 12000 seats, so it would be thatJim Brown's book "Ghosts of a vanished stadium " mentions it. The telegraph reported in 1970 that chairman Derek Robbins announced plans were at an "advanced stage" for the development. We were to become the "Real Madrid of England" ........as has proved to be . :happy:
I sat in the box's at the bottom of the main stand on several occasions......terrible view. Weren't they replaced with a new corporate area that was built at the back of the main stand when the roof was modified. Time has taken its toll i'm afraid. Could be the "pre- fab" exec boxes may just have been an extra income source?Yeah that's the ones, I'm sure we got them from Twickenham, before that there was a row
Of boxes at the front of the main stand, just wandering if they replaced them.
Think the first picture there is around 1948/52
Use to stand up the cop and get lifted off my feet and move down several rows the crowds were so big back in the mid 60's and into the first 10 years of the first division.
At half time they would open the gates and you would get in for free.
i remember going down to look for coins during half-timesUnderneath the Crows Nest was a wonderland for us kids as we would often find the occasional dropped programme or even sometimes a 2 and 6 (half a crown) or 12 and a half pence to you younger ones.
i remember going down to look for coins during half-times
memo to self: reread posts before the "ooh-aah missus" brigade get to see themIs that what the old men called it?
Did they replace the boxes at the front of the main stand, I can't remember.
Wasn't there also some sort of scoreboard between what would be the West terrace and Skyblue stand at some point?
It's like torture looking at all these pictures, I would gladly give up my clear view of proceedings at the Ricoh for a seat behind one of the roof supports in the sky blue stand, if it meant we could have HR back.
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