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colchestersid
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Dorking
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:21 pm
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I've got a small lump of the old Holmesdale Terrace (Selhurst Park), but a bit more impressive are a set of original wooden seats from the (Archiebald Leitch) Main Stand at Selhurst Park dating from when the ground an stand were opened in 1924. They live in my shed!
Palace sold them off at £20 per seat 4 years ago, when they 'upgraded' the stand following promotion. I got the rust off the legs and put some hammerite on them, then mounted them up on a base I made. For me its not just about having something unusual in my collection, its about bothering to preserve a bit of the clubs history - the club no doubt would have just chucked them out if the fans hadn't expressed an interest to buy them. |
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littlewiggy
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:00 pm
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Stunning items.
Sid's sign is a poignant nod to one of football's darkest days, and a lovely item to own.
Dorking's seats are fantastic, proper football ground seats unlike the cheap bucket seats of today.
Two lovely pieces of history.
Sadly I don't own a piece of Somerton Park.
Still bitter at the way the old County went to the wall, I didn't exactly have my collectors' head on when the bulldozers razed it to the ground in 1993 - and all our stand seats ended up elsewhere - some in the current stand at Weston-super-Mare, and the others at the now defunct Hayley Speedway Stadium.
In more modern times, I did see this large perspex sign on the outside perimeter wall of the main stand before our FA Cup game with Swansea City in 2006 - so on the way out I ripped it down and brought it home with me.
No idea why really, it's been wrapped up and stuck behind my wardrobe ever since.
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Dorking
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:11 pm
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Do they not normally have directional signs up then? What if they'd needed it the following week???
ps good luck v Carlisle |
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littlewiggy
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:39 pm
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Dorking wrote: |
Do they not normally have directional signs up then? What if they'd needed it the following week???
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Cheers mate.
No, we were at Spytty Park in those days in Conference South - so there was no segregation and no restriction on standing or sitting - you paid your tenner to get in and went where you liked.
So you only had the segregation, restriction of movement etc for the big cup games.
And as Swansea won 3-1, there was not going to be a next week, hence me helping myself to the sign - which incidentally was quite well screwed on and took some brute-force to rip off!! lol _________________ NEWPORT COUNTY & GENERAL FOOTY BADGES:
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yachtsmun
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Great topic, and some lovely bits shown already. I've probably walked under that West Ham/Ibrox sign a few times - vaguely remember seeing similar signs at a couple of other grounds too. I'd imagine the Boleyn was pretty much stripped bare by souvenir hunters, although that United match probably wouldn't have been a good night to get caught trying to get in with screwdrivers, chisels and the like...
I'm not one to give much of a stuff about home furnishings, but the hook on the back of the bathroom door is one of my favourite things. Cast iron, dating from when Cowes' (new) main stand was first built c.1923. Salvaged when the dressing rooms were refurbed in the late-1980s. Wish I'd thought to grab a couple more now...
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yachtsmun
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Wish I'd known about the Palace seats sell-off - I'd have gladly stumped up for two or three of them. _________________ Always looking for pre-1980 Cowes homes, pre-1987 Cowes aways, and any other bits and bobs relating to Cowes F.C. and I.W. football in general. Someone has to. |
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Jim LFC
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Viola19
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Post subject: My old seat from Filbert Street, Carling Stand. |
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colchestersid
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 8:41 pm
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This is a sign that used to hang at the back of the North Bank at West Ham, above the exit
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Decided to offer this up on ebay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/West.....SwONBZAzrE |
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