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Britain From Above Archive - Love Street Stadium 1927

Started by weejobby , Jun 25 2012 22:39

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 22:39

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Saw a link to this archive on the BBC website - amazing!

http://www.britainfr...image/spw019488

Edited by weejobby, 25 June 2012 - 22:39.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 22:43

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Superb - I think I can see Pozbaird leaving the Cosmo Chippy.

Edited by Drew, 25 June 2012 - 22:43.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 23:00

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Great photo - what a fantastic place that would have been to watch football. Remarkable that that wee stand stood the tests of time right till the end. Still makes me sad to see it but thanks for posting.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 23:08

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To the south of the stand almost every building is still there. To the north, almost nothing is still standing.

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 00:17

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It is incredible to think about people watching games there. It just looks like a football pitch has been put down in the middle of a crater.

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 00:33

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Nice wan John!
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:34

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A few other footy images:

Hampden - http://www.britainfr...image/spw019491

Ibrox - http://www.britainfr...image/spw019494 - although the way things are going doon the road it'll end up looking like that again before too long... Posted Image
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:36

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It is incredible to think about people watching games there. It just looks like a football pitch has been put down in the middle of a crater.


I know, and where's the, erm, toilet? Posted Image
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:42

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Archive? Archive?
That's still how I have these venues stored in my mental repository!

There were a few irrelevant accretions (such as lavvies) down the years, but fundamentally...
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Look, I made a graph. I make a lot of graphs'

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:43

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Great photo of Love Street. Amazingly clear photo bearing in mind how old it is and the fact it was aerial. The one of Ibrox isn't bad either for it gives me a better idea of how many apartment blocks can be built there now.
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:48

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if you look closely at the photo of Princes St in 1947, you make out the erection of the first barriers for the trams project
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:52

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Interesting to see the turnstyles at Love Street were still the ones we were using till a couple of years ago.

reminded me of the 70s/ 80s - if you wanted to go to the stand / enclosure, you had to enter the "GROUND" as normal, then pay a couple of bob extra to "TRANSFER" to the stand / enclosure. - I had forgotten about that!
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 09:23

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I know, and where's the, erm, toilet? Posted Image


Toilets were for pansies back then. Even until well into the sixties a lot of guys let flow where they stood. If like me you were a North Banker, you pee'd on the slope at the back facing the tenements on Springbank Road. The good ladies of said thoroughfare had a great time trying to spot the biguns.

Had to look up Bluto's word 'accretion'. i must have been asleep when the teacher explained that one. I thought he had got mixed up with 'excretion'. That would have fitted better.

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 09:29

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Another old one in Ayr (Beresford Park): http://www.britainfr...arch=ayr&ref=10

It's right beside the main train station and is now a cinema. Belonged to one of the defunct Ayr clubs who later amalgamated to become Ayr United.
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 10:04

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It is incredible to think about people watching games there. It just looks like a football pitch has been put down in the middle of a crater.



Wasn't the capacity around 50,000 then?!

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 10:26

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Just for info. Highburgh was converted into about 800 flats. Ibrox is a bit bigger and has the carparking round it.

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 11:19

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Saw a link to this archive on the BBC website - amazing!

http://www.britainfr...image/spw019488

thats ma auld hoose,next to the ropeworks at the caladonia end
my brain hurts,,

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 18:02

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Nice wan John!


Thought you would like it Col as it must bring back memories, cause is that no you cycling doon Albion St on yer way to school?






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Posted 26 June 2012 - 23:16

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Thought you would like it Col as it must bring back memories, cause is that no you cycling doon Albion St on yer way to school?






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Mibbes mah Grandfaither John!

Widnae be me anyway as I was a serial dogger. Mair likely be up the braes wey Davie McSkimming ridin bareback. Ooooerrr missus!
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 10:48

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Widnae be me anyway as I was a serial dogger. Mair likely be up the braes wey Davie McSkimming ridin bareback. Ooooerrr missus!


Ahh! So that's what was meant by "doggin' it aff school" ! You see I was a good boy, I never dogged it, what a sheltered life .... if only I'd known! Posted Image
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