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littlewiggy · Joined: 07 Apr 2013 Posts: 1816 Location: Newport

Stumbled upon this commercial site last night, showing most of the FL grounds now & then, and must confess I spent a couple of hours thereafter looking through every pic.

Very addictive if like me, you loathe modern grounds but love how they used to be ...

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/newport-county-fc-somerton-park-main-stand-1-1970s-legendary-football-grounds.html
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pastpirate · Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 1:15 pm Post subject:

Think I may well be spending a few hours there.
Thanks for posting the link LW
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littlewiggy · Joined: 07 Apr 2013 Posts: 1816 Location: Newport

pastpirate wrote:

Think I may well be spending a few hours there.
Thanks for posting the link LW

Cheers PP.

I'm guessing you'll already be aware of this chap, but just in case you're not his huge Flickr site on old Brizzle is truly fascinating mate.

Plus there's some great old pics of Eastville & the Gate ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/albums
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Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 2:16 pm Post subject:

Very interesting site, Wiggy. Thank you. May be a great help to me at times too.

pastpirate · Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 10:03 pm Post subject:

littlewiggy wrote:

pastpirate wrote:

Think I may well be spending a few hours there.
Thanks for posting the link LW

Cheers PP.

I'm guessing you'll already be aware of this chap, but just in case you're not his huge Flickr site on old Brizzle is truly fascinating mate.

Plus there's some great old pics of Eastville & the Gate ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/albums

Yes, have been checking that site out for years, it's great.
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derby1884 · Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 11:06 pm Post subject: Re: Old Footy Ground Pics

littlewiggy wrote:

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Very addictive if like me, you loathe modern grounds but love how they used to be ...

Better not get me started on that subject, Liam! All that history bulldozed on the altar of "progress". Ha.

It's even worse in Scotland where so many of the grounds now only bother to open two sides to the public.

One reason I was so glad that Cowdenbeath and their unique stadium stayed in the League.
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littlewiggy · Joined: 07 Apr 2013 Posts: 1816 Location: Newport

derby1884 wrote:

littlewiggy wrote:

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Very addictive if like me, you loathe modern grounds but love how they used to be ...

Better not get me started on that subject, Liam! All that history bulldozed on the altar of "progress". Ha.

It's even worse in Scotland where so many of the grounds now only bother to open two sides to the public.

One reason I was so glad that Cowdenbeath and their unique stadium stayed in the League.

I used to love looking at pics of the Scottish grounds back in the 70s/80s mate, especially the lower divisions, but the smaller, new grounds I've seen look quite horrible nowadays, completely soulless.

I did watch both legs of the Brechin v Alloa p/off on BBC Alba recently though, and was pleased to see their old grounds still going strong. Alloa's in particular was a real throw-back. A lovely sight.
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derby1884 · Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Old Footy Ground Pics

littlewiggy wrote:

derby1884 wrote:

littlewiggy wrote:

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Very addictive if like me, you loathe modern grounds but love how they used to be ...

Better not get me started on that subject, Liam! All that history bulldozed on the altar of "progress". Ha.

It's even worse in Scotland where so many of the grounds now only bother to open two sides to the public.

One reason I was so glad that Cowdenbeath and their unique stadium stayed in the League.

I used to love looking at pics of the Scottish grounds back in the 70s/80s mate, especially the lower divisions, but the smaller, new grounds I've seen look quite horrible nowadays, completely soulless.

I did watch both legs of the Brechin v Alloa p/off on BBC Alba recently though, and was pleased to see their old grounds still going strong. Alloa's in particular was a real throw-back. A lovely sight.

Clubs who only open two sides of their ground, such as Livingston, Clyde, St.Mirren, Stirling Albion, seem on the face of it to have built a stadium ready for the SPL as and when they get there.

My favourite Scottish ground has always been Starks Park and its unique grandstand arrangement. The terracing at Forfar is unusual in that it has a plethora of crash barriers for the space available.

Homogenisation of just about everything in life is a curse of the modern age....
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Flaming Pie · Joined: 26 Nov 2016 Posts: 972

One for derby1884 littlewiggy and all nostalgia freaks. An interesting film, 'The Great Game' was on TV early this morning. Match scenes were filmed at Griffin Park .Some great footage of match action from a 1952 53 Brentford game.Tommy Lawton was in it. Dianne Dorrs looked absolutely gorgeous.There was even footage of match programmes! They don't make films like that anymore!