| So many memories of this place 19:37 - Oct 10 with 3422 views | Keno |
The best place to watch football
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| So many memories of this place on 23:05 - Oct 11 with 522 views | mrfixit426 |
| So many memories of this place on 11:27 - Oct 11 by OldFart71 |
Started going to PR and standing in the North Stand about half way up in the 1950's. Went through what is now viewed as the bad pjd days where there was a bit of bovver and the stand was segregated to keep fans apart as the away fans had the right hand side and Town fans had the left.
I remember games which were sell outs and fans would be shepherded around the perimeter of the ground.
A chap who used to sell the Evening Star used to wear a flat cap sort of on one side.
His name was Dieter Ager from Mendlesham.
The old chicken run, replaced by the Cobbold and opened in 1970-71 season went to Foxhall stadium.
Churchmans had wooden sleepers for steps. Possibly replaced after the Bradford fire.
Great memories especially 78 and the Cup final. Also the game against Leeds Utd when the ground had just over 38,000 in it.
Lets hope there are more glory days to come. The old ground looks superb now thanks mainly to Gamechanger & Co. I look forward to further expansion when the Cobbold gets replaced. COYB. |
Dieter Ager, good grief that name brings back some old memories! I remember him well. What a character he was. |  | | |
| So many memories of this place on 00:05 - Oct 12 with 458 views | BluePG |
| So many memories of this place on 03:15 - Oct 11 by Illinoisblue |
How exciting it was to graduate from Churchmans to North. Favourite NS memory would have to be Newcastle at home in 92 en route to promotion. Sunny April day, swaying terrace, 3-2 win. TWTD |
Top five in my list of favourite games. Halcyon times. |  |
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| So many memories of this place on 11:30 - Oct 12 with 343 views | DJR |
Anyone remember that they had a TV camera at the back of the stand which had on it the graphics for a game which they superimposed over the football footage?
I am not sure for how long that was the case but it was sometime in the 70s. [Post edited 12 Oct 11:32]
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| So many memories of this place on 23:08 - Oct 12 with 229 views | IndependentlyBlue |
First match I attended was as a 14 year old, in 1966 with my mate Colin. Stood at the front of the North Stand, right behind the goal. Felt like the most wonderful place in the world. As got older moved back up the North Stand. The swaying, shouting, singing, chanting, clapping was wonderful. Scary as F**k when the crowd suddenly surged down but so exhilarating. Wonderful memories. As someone else has mentioned, the Leeds cup match was astonishing. Best atmosphere ever. |  |
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| So many memories of this place on 07:00 - Oct 13 with 174 views | slade1 |
| So many memories of this place on 22:56 - Oct 11 by buoyant |
See that big gap in the brick wall?
Used to get in for free just after half time.....
TWTD |
Yes, all the gates around the ground were open just after half time so you could just walk in and watch the second half. That's how I watched my first game as a 10 year old (still a season ticket holder 55 years later)
I first watched from the Churchmans stand, then stood (on my box) with my dad in the west stand. I stayed there for years until I was 'old enough' to stand in the North stand, I didn't tell dad though as he wouldn't have liked that.
I am now 65 years old and back in the West stand where I have been for the last 25 years. [Post edited 13 Oct 7:05]
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| So many memories of this place on 07:42 - Oct 13 with 132 views | Churchman |
| So many memories of this place on 11:27 - Oct 11 by OldFart71 |
Started going to PR and standing in the North Stand about half way up in the 1950's. Went through what is now viewed as the bad pjd days where there was a bit of bovver and the stand was segregated to keep fans apart as the away fans had the right hand side and Town fans had the left.
I remember games which were sell outs and fans would be shepherded around the perimeter of the ground.
A chap who used to sell the Evening Star used to wear a flat cap sort of on one side.
His name was Dieter Ager from Mendlesham.
The old chicken run, replaced by the Cobbold and opened in 1970-71 season went to Foxhall stadium.
Churchmans had wooden sleepers for steps. Possibly replaced after the Bradford fire.
Great memories especially 78 and the Cup final. Also the game against Leeds Utd when the ground had just over 38,000 in it.
Lets hope there are more glory days to come. The old ground looks superb now thanks mainly to Gamechanger & Co. I look forward to further expansion when the Cobbold gets replaced. COYB. |
Regarding sleepers for steps in Churchmans, I noticed watching the Bobby Robson documentary last night that he was interviewed in front of the newly built Portman/Cobbold Stand which dates the interview to about 1971. The camera panned across to Churchmans and the steps looked concrete to me and with the crush barriers much the same as I remember it later in the 1970s. But memories (esp mine) are unreliable!
On that I gathered from my dad the original banking before the West Stand was built in the 1930s was old railway sleepers. They were obviously the building material of choice! |  | | |
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