John Lambies Doos Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Ignoring all the Recent sponsor naming I thought it might be interesting to start a thread on the origins of stadia name. Some are fairly straightforward e.g Parkhead and Ibrox some not so, Boghead, Firhill, Tynecastle etc etc etc. Interesting to hear the reasons, no reason why English stadia and further a field can't be included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuggz Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Banks O Dees' Spain Park..have never been able to find out the reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broomhill Ultra Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 The Wankdorf in Switzerland was built on ground that was a famous Bukkake spot, Perhaps you haven’t heard but recently renamed the Siemens Arena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Ignoring all the Recent sponsor naming I thought it might be interesting to start a thread on the origins of stadia name. Some are fairly straightforward e.g Parkhead and Ibrox some not so, Boghead, Firhill, Tynecastle etc etc etc. Interesting to hear the reasons, no reason why English stadia and further a field can't be included. Boghead is fairly straightforward tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 Boghead is fairly straightforward tbhI'm presuming it's at the head of a bog? Peat bog; was this once a thriving contributor to Dumbarton society??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Maturin Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Broomhill Ultra said: Perhaps you haven’t heard but recently renamed the Siemens Arena. Aha it all fits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 4 hours ago, shuggz said: Banks O Dees' Spain Park..have never been able to find out the reason. http://www.scottishleague.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=779 by cowdenbeather » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:48 pm Ground was purchased by Banks o Dee in 1965 from Aberdeen engineering firm J M Henderson. They did a deal with Henderson's Managing Director to buy the land. The managing director was Richard (Dick) Spain and the ground is named after him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 13 minutes ago, 7-2 said: Richard (Dick) Spain sounds like someone from those putalocura bukkake movies that the wankdorf was named after.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I'm presuming it's at the head of a bog? Peat bog; was this once a thriving contributor to Dumbarton society??? Just a bog, whole area was like that. Go down about six feet underground and its water.Oddly enough our original ground was on an area which flooded. Our current ground is on land reclaimed from a river mouth and the ground we are considering moving to is on a flood plain. Bit of a pattern there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 rovers old ground, belle vue, was so called - you'll be surprised to find out - not because the vista from the site of the ground on bawtry road was particularly evocative of scenic splendour on the near continent, putting the casual observer in mind of parisien boulevards, the lush meadows of the masif centrale, the loire valley or languedoc, shimmering in the mediterranean sun - it was because the naming committee was taking the fucking piss... edit: with a certain degree of irony, the name predated the ground because the area did actually have a tree-lined avenue running along the perimeter of the race course towards the town centre, and it was one of the more appealing views in the area; of course, this is all relative and you have to remember that the rest of town at the time was a morass of post-victorian squalor, railway marshalling yards and industrialisation; the old rugby league ground was called tattersfield - much more descriptive - it overlooked a huge glue factory, and you could smell the hooves being boiled up as you watched the dons being futile - properly grand stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 i'm guessing this is common knowledge north of the border, but i'm hugely impressed that aberdeen's ground used to be a mound o'shite: The original Aberdeen football club was formed in 1881. They played at various venues within the city, until a former dung hill for police horses was cleared and readied for football in 1899.[4] The land was leased from Mr Knight Erskine of Pittodrie,[4] with an agreement to construct a terrace on what is now the site of the Richard Donald Stand. I was really hoping that this might have come from an old name for a hole where shite was dumped along the lines of "pit o'ordure" or something, but disappointing it seems to be a gaelic phrase meaning "a small local temple" Rochdale's Spotland: Spotland is a district of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England. The Rochdale ward name is Spotland and Falinge. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 10,805.[1] It lies on the River Spodden, and is the home of Spotland Stadium. Historically a part of Lancashire, Spotland was formerly its own township within the ancient parish of Rochdale. The name Spotland means "area around the Spodden", Spodden referring to the River Spodden, which itself means "spouting stream". Walsall's old Fellow's Park: Fellows Park was a football stadium in Walsall, England. It was the home ground of Walsall F.C. from 1896 until 1990, when the team moved to the Bescot Stadium.Fellows Park was situated about a quarter of a mile away from the club's present ground, The Bescot Stadium, at the junction of Hilary Street and Wallows Lane.The club moved to the ground from West Bromwich Road in 1896. Until 1930 it was named Hilary Street, at which point it was renamed after H.L. Fellows, a club director. The new Bescot Stadium was ready for the 1990-91 season.[4] A reminder of Fellows Park remains in the new stadium, in the name of the H.L. Fellows Stand. West Brom The expiry of the lease on a former ground, Stoney Lane, as well as the club's desire for a more spacious location, sawWest Brom move once again in 1900, this time permanently. All of Albion's previous grounds had been close to the centre of West Bromwich, but on this occasion they took up an "out of town" site on the borders of Handsworth. The area was covered in hawthorn bushes, which were cleared to make way for the new ground, hence its name, the Hawthorns loving this (as you can probably guess) - the combination of football history and words makes me positively moist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 especially for Rab: Originally common pasture land within the town of Walton on the Hill, the area now known as Anfield had the name of Hanging-fields or Hangfield - the name originating from the deeply sloping (or 'hanging') nature of the terrain. The name was also frequently written as Hongfield or Honghfield. In Gore's paper of 26 July 1810, certain fields are advertised as "Fields in Walton-on-the-Hill, called Hanging-fields.". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 "Glebe" referred to land used to support a priest in medieval times. As Brechin has a very old cathedral you can see where the name of Brechin City's Glebe Park comes from. I was at Ochilview today. You can just about see the Ochils from the ground! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Chelsea 'Stamford Bridge' is considered to be a derivative of 'Samfordesbrigge' meaning 'the bridge at the sandy ford'.[8] 18th century maps show a 'Stanford Creek' running along the route of what is now a railway line at the back of the East Stand as a tributary of the Thames. The upper reaches of this tributary have been known as Billingswell Ditch, Pools Creek and Counters Creek. In mediaeval times the Creek was known as Billingwell Dyche, derived from 'Billing's spring or stream'. It formed the boundary between the parishes of Kensington and Fulham. By the 18th century the creek had become known as Counter's Creek which is the name it has retained since.[9] The stream had two local bridges: Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road (also recorded as Little Chelsea Bridge) and Stanbridge on the Kings Road, now known as Stanley Bridge.The existing Stamford Bridge was built of brick in 1860–2 and has been partly reconstructed since then. Wolves The Molineux name originates from Benjamin Molineux, a successful local merchant (and a distant relative of the now extinct Earls of Sefton) who, in 1744, purchased land on which he built Molineux House (later converted to the Molineux Hotel) and on which the stadium would eventually be built. The estate was purchased in 1860 by O.E. McGregor, who converted the land into a pleasure park open to the public. Molineux Grounds, as it was titled, included a wide range of facilities including an ice rink, a cycling track, a boating lake and, most crucially, an area for football. The grounds were sold to the Northampton Brewery in 1889, who rented its use to Wolverhampton Wanderers, who had previously played at Dudley Road. After renovating the site, the first ever league game was staged on 7 September 1889 in a 2–0 victory over Notts County before a crowd of 4,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 2 hours ago, tamthebam said: "Glebe" referred to land used to support a priest in medieval times. As Brechin has a very old cathedral you can see where the name of Brechin City's Glebe Park comes from. I was at Ochilview today. You can just about see the Ochils from the ground! Wrong. You can see them quite clearly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 8 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Wrong. You can see them quite clearly not from where I was standing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuggz Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 15 hours ago, 7-2 said: http://www.scottishleague.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=779 by cowdenbeather » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:48 pm Ground was purchased by Banks o Dee in 1965 from Aberdeen engineering firm J M Henderson. They did a deal with Henderson's Managing Director to buy the land. The managing director was Richard (Dick) Spain and the ground is named after him. Thanks for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Interested to see some input from fellow Bairns, or anyone in the know, regarding Brockville. Broch could refer to an ancient roundhouse & ville means town. Possibly named after Arthur's Oven? A quick search suggests brock was an old word meaning a person who resembles a badger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 23 hours ago, tamthebam said: "Glebe" referred to land used to support a priest in medieval times. As Brechin has a very old cathedral you can see where the name of Brechin City's Glebe Park comes from. I was at Ochilview today. You can just about see the Ochils from the ground! Even in recent times the glebe was the land accompanying the manse. This thread is making me feel even aulder than usual 10 hours ago, badgerthewitness said: Interested to see some input from fellow Bairns, or anyone in the know, regarding Brockville. Broch could refer to an ancient roundhouse & ville means town. Possibly named after Arthur's Oven? A quick search suggests brock was an old word meaning a person who resembles a badger. Brock is simply the Scots word for a badger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Tannadice park is on tannadice street. As is Dens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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