parsforlife Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 , in true penny pinching style ensuring it only covered approximately one quarter of the back of the terracing. It’s a weird quirk that I guess must have been down to difficulty placing a roof over lover levels. Always find it funny to see pictures of hampden with massive terraces and a tiny roofed section at the back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_K_97 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 38 minutes ago, Flybhoy said: Roof going on the Celtic end at CP, late 1950's, the board, in true penny pinching style ensuring it only covered approximately one quarter of the back of the terracing. I like how the chimney behind the stand kinda looks like it's part of the stand if you squint a bit. Slightly dystopian. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Regarding the track around the pitch at Parkhead was Parkhead ever used for athletics or other forms of racing? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Regarding the track around the pitch at Parkhead was Parkhead ever used for athletics or other forms of racing?I had a vague recollection of reading about Eric Liddell, and Google has thrown this up: https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/17659588.can-glasgow-v-leinster-pro14-final-light-up-celtic-park-like-chariots-of-fire/ Also found Speedway: http://www.thecelticwiki.com/m/page/Celtic+Park+-+Speedway 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 11 minutes ago, Andy_K_97 said: I like how the chimney behind the stand kinda looks like it's part of the stand if you squint a bit. Slightly dystopian. Belching out black smoke. They can't have found a new manager yet. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 13 minutes ago, parsforlife said: It’s a weird quirk that I guess must have been down to difficulty placing a roof over lover levels. Always find it funny to see pictures of hampden with massive terraces and a tiny roofed section at the back. No way am I an engineer, but with cantilevered roofs there must have been a limit to what stresses the steelwork could take, and many still needed vertical girders which restricted the view. The solution for many, notably Rangers in the 70s, and also Celtic, Hearts, Hibs and many others, was goalpost construction based on a rectangular ground with no running track. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintonfan Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 look at st james' park newcastle, biggest cantilever in europe when it was built 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 The first cantilever stand at a football ground apparently didn't go up until 1958, and the first full length one opened in 1961. Probably a lot more expensive than the traditional design with pillars supporting from underneath, so wouldn't have expected Celtic's board in the 1950's to go for it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 No way am I an engineer, but with cantilevered roofs there must have been a limit to what stresses the steelwork could take, and many still needed vertical girders which restricted the view. The solution for many, notably Rangers in the 70s, and also Celtic, Hearts, Hibs and many others, was goalpost construction based on a rectangular ground with no running track.Easter Road is built with Cantilevered roofs as opposed to goalposts. That’s why there’s all that green tubular steel sticking out the back. The side walls aren’t bearing much of the load.The new bits of Celtic park are also Cantilevered but they couldn’t overhang the cemetery at the back of the north stand quite enough to support a fully cantilevered roof so they’ve had to comptromise and include a few pillars at the back Tynecastle was such a tight space that there was no room at that they had no option but to use a goalpost construction 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Roof going on the Celtic end at CP, late 1950's, the board, in true penny pinching style ensuring it only covered approximately one quarter of the back of the terracing. Back then attendances used to fluctuate massively For example in 1957-58 Celtic Park drew 43,000 for the visit Hearts and 50,000 the following week for an old firm game but Finished the season hosting Queens Park, Clyde, Motherwell and 3rd Lanark in front of four or five thousand A wee bit of shelter at the back would have been plenty most weeks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 1 hour ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: Finished the season hosting Queens Park, Clyde, Motherwell and 3rd Lanark in front of four or five thousand No glory = no glory hunters 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. X Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 6 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: For example in 1957-58 Celtic Park drew 43,000 for the visit Hearts and 50,000 the following week for an old firm game but Finished the season hosting Queens Park, Clyde, Motherwell and 3rd Lanark in front of four or five thousand Aye Hearts had a massive travelling support back then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintonfan Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 On 06/07/2019 at 09:41, PauloPerth said: The first cantilever stand at a football ground apparently didn't go up until 1958, and the first full length one opened in 1961. Probably a lot more expensive than the traditional design with pillars supporting from underneath, so wouldn't have expected Celtic's board in the 1950's to go for it! 1st stand was at the old show ground in scuntrhorpe, 1st full length was north stand at hillsborough 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Aye Hearts had a massive travelling support back then.Well if there was one Hearts side worth a trip to Glasgow to watch it would have been the 1958 team.But the point I was getting at was that in those days when hardly anybody had season tickets there were a lot more people who’d only show up for big games.35,000+ somehow squeezed into Tynecastle for the visit of Celtic that season, even more for the derby But only 14,500 braved the elements for the game against Raith which was Hearts’ last home game before clinching the title. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Pittodrie some time in the 1950's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Some late 1980's crush barrier porn at Hampden from the Mount Florida end. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 The old Easter Road from sometime in the 1990's and the docks in the background, a classic 'Sunshine on Leith' picture. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Somerset Park, Ayr in the 1970's which has changed very little. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 The East Terrace/Kings Park/Celtic end of Hampden was the biggest in world football at one point, this picture, from the 1970's I believe shows it before the rear section was 'shaved' off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 And the North Terrace is gone as Hampden undergoes a partial redevelopment in 1992 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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