Desp Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 I assume it would be just London Rd, no? Heading towards Bridgeton. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Is that a railway line just to the rear? Yes it was an old line that went from Partick to Rutherglen and was lifted in the 1960s 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Cracking crowd pic of Hampden, Scotland v England 1984, 1-1 draw. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 On 09/12/2017 at 20:37, ajwffc said: Yes it was an old line that went from Partick to Rutherglen and was lifted in the 1960s This one https://urbanglasgow.co.uk/abandoned-central-low-level-in-1967-t3419.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daydream Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Cracking crowd pic of Hampden, Scotland v England 1984, 1-1 draw. I can’t get my head round which part of the ground this is??! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiepiemuncher Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 I can’t get my head round which part of the ground this is??! I think it’s the corner of the Celtic end and the main south stand ie the south east corner of the ground. The photo has been reversed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul wright scores Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 8 hours ago, Flybhoy said: Cracking crowd pic of Hampden, Scotland v England 1984, 1-1 draw. I'm was standing just to the right of where this was taken - it snowed at one point during the game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 1 hour ago, killiepiemuncher said: I think it’s the corner of the Celtic end and the main south stand ie the south east corner of the ground. The photo has been reversed. Yes, I remember this photo featuring somewhere on P&B before and that was indeed the explanation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daydream Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Yes, indeed I do remember that now. Did the Engerland fans not normally get that section? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 7 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: This one https://urbanglasgow.co.uk/abandoned-central-low-level-in-1967-t3419.html No the line in the pictures on that site is what is now the Argyle line that was closed in the 1960s and reopend in the 1970s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 On 9 December 2017 at 15:28, Daydream said: Is that a railway line just to the rear? Caledonian Railway switchback freight line built in the 1890s. It was built to bypass an number of East/West lines going through the city. It branched off the main Glasgow/London at an elevated level and went from Rutherglen to the north side of the city and on to the Hamiltonhill branch line. It linked several long gone goods yards from London Rd to Colston in the North, the Parkhead Beardmores Forge, Provan Gas Works etc plus two major hospitals. It was used in the First World War to ferry the injured direct from the Channel Ports to Stobhill hospital. It closed in the mid 1960s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 On 12/3/2017 at 22:04, Flybhoy said: The jungle as I remember it in the 80's and 90's from roughly the same angle. Looks relatively neat but was still quite primitive from what I recall as a boy. Toilets were horrendous and it could get quite cramped at games v the **** and european ties, meaning as a laddie I saw little of the game but what an atmosphere My first ever game in there was 2nd January 1988 when a Frank McAvennie double beat the now dead club 2-0 on the way to a league and cup double in Celtic's 100th year, not a bad first visit !!! Can remember changing ends at half time and having to walk through the jungle as an away fan. Now that was an experience. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) To bump the Billy Graham thing, which piqued my interest... There was a book published after his campaign finished called 'Crusade in Scotland' and I got an old battered copy off Ebay. It's a narrative story as opposed to straightforward facts 'n figures but it covers the various aspects including the huge rallies held in football grounds. Ibrox was used on a "cold Friday evening" with 50,000 present... There was one at Tynecastle, at midday on a weekday, attended by 20,000 (there is a photo opposite p64 from inside the recently demolished main stand which appears to be full with what is now the Gorgie Stand end reasonably well filled)... He also went to Aberdeen and Inverness; presumably Pittodrie and Telford Street but isn't specified. This wasn't an especially innovative idea - his London campaign later that year used Wembley. Unfortunately it doesn't conclusively answer the Hampden query. It says there were "close on a hundred thousand" at the closing Hampden evening, which tallies with the 90,000 or 100,000 figures online. However there is an aerial photo opposite p81 labelled "Capacity Crowd at the vast Hampden Park, Glasgow". It clearly isn't the same occasion as the photos I posted earlier in this thread as there are considerably more private cars and they're parked where the buses are. Unlike the online photos every part of the terracing looks packed - the East terracing 'shelf' is only partly full in the online photos - and there's a thin string of people standing along the lip of the embankment and walkway behind the top of the West terrace. However unlike the online photos there isn't a thick ribbon of people sitting on the track inside the railing, only occasional shapes (presumably police, stewards and press). Whether it's over 149,000: who knows. Edited December 14, 2017 by HibeeJibee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Reading more of 'Crusade in Scotland', one of Graham's fellow evangelists held a rally at Shotts football ground attended by 5,000. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLANCY2KTID Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Parkhead in two very different guises lurking in the background here 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLANCY2KTID Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Hampden playing a similar game 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Celtic Park slowly transforming. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locheedfcno1 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Celtic Park slowly transforming. Do you think celtic will ever knock the old main stand down and build a bigger stand ?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locheedfcno1 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Celtic Park slowly transforming. Do you think celtic will ever knock the old main stand down and build a bigger stand ?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 On 01/12/2017 at 21:05, HibeeJibee said: Tomorrow marks the closure of Meadowbank, aka the Commonwealth Stadium, in Edinburgh after almost 50 years. Never a loved football venue but I'm actually really sad to see it go - there was something deeply impressive about that scale of concrete-and-steel in all its monumentalism. Supposedly the grandstand was the largest single-tiered in Scotland outside Hampden, also. Last trophy won there was apparently LTHV beating Edinburgh City in the EOS Cup in March. I think the last football game on the main stadium was Edinburgh City v Stirling Albion in April in SPFL2. Last football match on the complex is Leith Athletic v Burntisland Shipyard - an appropriately low-key matchup - in the EOS League Cup R1 tomorrow afternoon. Then the bulldozers move in. Edinburgh City have become tenants at Spartans; Leith at Edinburgh University. Only ever went to one game there, an utterly tedious 0-0 draw during Dundee's First Division title season in 91/92. At least I think it was tedious. I went through on the Bowbridge Bar bus and we spend a couple of hours getting pished in a pub full of Welsh rugby fans. The most traumatic part of the day was being daft enough to get a seat at the back of that stand and having to carefully negotiate the steep stairs to go for a half-time Johnny Cash, a challenging affair when cunted. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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