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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 9:43:46 GMT
To be followed by the history of the flower beds at the Tote end.Unique.
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Post by Rod1883 on Mar 15, 2024 9:51:59 GMT
To be followed by the history of the flower beds at the Tote end.Unique.  |
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 10:33:05 GMT
Brilliant.Hadn't realised there were so few seats in the south stand.
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Post by purdownpoacher1 on Mar 15, 2024 11:18:13 GMT
It definately was the press box. It was the Hospital Broadcasts Commentary box ! 💙 |
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Post by Topper Gas on Mar 15, 2024 11:18:14 GMT
Definitely not the press box as that was between the directors box and 2 rows of seats where I used to sit at Eastville in the South stand. Pretty sure it was for hospital broadcasts . Quite often had to tell the reporters who scored for Rovers as both me and my mate used to block their view when we scored and jumped in the air. Graham Russell Robin Perry Roger Malone were frequently there and used to bang on the window to get us to sit down.Seems nothing has changed with our new South stand Read the history of when the stand was built in 1924 and it clearly says it was built as a press box. Don’t doubt it became a commentary box in the following years. It still seems an odd construction for a football press box in the 1920's, was it a greyhound track then or did that come later? |
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Post by purdownpoacher1 on Mar 15, 2024 11:25:27 GMT
It was a brilliant view from up there -Bit claustrophobic with 4 or 5 commentators. Aboard 😳
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Post by returngas on Mar 15, 2024 11:25:41 GMT
It was a Press Box. Surprised the old South Stand only sat 500. Used to watch reserve games from that stand as entry was to anywhere in the ground and it always seemed bigger than that. I would have guessed it was certainly well over a 1000 but perhaps my memory is playing tricks.
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Post by chewbacca on Mar 15, 2024 11:31:13 GMT
Anyone know if it was a press box?
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Post by Marshy on Mar 15, 2024 11:33:46 GMT
Anyone know if it was a press box? It’s turning into Pandora’s box 😂 |
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Post by purdownpoacher1 on Mar 15, 2024 11:36:33 GMT
Used to love climbing up what seemed to be the never ending steps (for a toddler) at. Full time
Happy times 💙🤗Utg
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Post by bluetooth0077 on Mar 15, 2024 12:39:47 GMT
I use to watch the speedway from the south stand. A particular character with a wooden rattle always springs to mind. A news flash on the football show that Sunday reported a fire at eastville. I ran down Muller road and witnessed the fire brigade tackling the fire. A heartbreaking day.
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Post by Biggsy on Mar 15, 2024 12:46:12 GMT
I wonder what the real history actually is as it seems the stand was built for Bristol Harlequins RFC before Rovers moved into the ground years later, it seems odd a regional rugby club requiring a two storey press box, when the stand itself only held 500 fans. The old wooden 500 seater rugby stand was demolished in 1924 and in the summer of that year a 2000 seater stand including a paddock,dressing rooms and club offices were built. The ground at that time was rectangular and the layout was changed to an ovoid type in 1932 to accommodate a greyhound track. |
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Post by gasheadontour on Mar 15, 2024 12:52:51 GMT
I use to watch the speedway from the south stand. A particular character with a wooden rattle always springs to mind. A news flash on the football show that Sunday reported a fire at eastville. I ran down Muller road and witnessed the fire brigade tackling the fire. A heartbreaking day.
As a youngster, I received a wooden football rattle as a Christmas present. On it's first outing I took it into the North Stand. People cheered when it broke. Wooden rattles were later banned due to hooligans using them as weapons.
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Post by chewbacca on Mar 15, 2024 12:59:59 GMT
I use to watch the speedway from the south stand. A particular character with a wooden rattle always springs to mind. A news flash on the football show that Sunday reported a fire at eastville. I ran down Muller road and witnessed the fire brigade tackling the fire. A heartbreaking day.
As a youngster, I received a wooden football rattle as a Christmas present. On it's first outing I took it into the North Stand. People cheered when it broke. Wooden rattles were later banned due to hooligans using them as weapons.
I remember as a child in the South Stand my Grandmother sewed my very first Stone Island patch onto a Donkey Jacket before a 3-1 home win against MK Dons in 1962. Even then people were singing "Send Bert Tann to Vietnam Halelujah, use Agent Orange on Tom Gorringe haleloo-oojah!". |
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Post by SleepyGas on Mar 15, 2024 13:33:54 GMT
As a youngster, I received a wooden football rattle as a Christmas present. On it's first outing I took it into the North Stand. People cheered when it broke. Wooden rattles were later banned due to hooligans using them as weapons.
I remember as a child in the South Stand my Grandmother sewed my very first Stone Island patch onto a Donkey Jacket before a 3-1 home win against MK Dons in 1962. Even then people were singing "Send Bert Tann to Vietnam Halelujah, use Agent Orange on Tom Gorringe haleloo-oojah!". I can confirm this as I was there |
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 14:15:24 GMT
Recall going to a fireworks display at Eastville-1950's sponsored by the Evening Post I think.
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Post by Topper Gas on Mar 15, 2024 15:26:44 GMT
I wonder what the real history actually is as it seems the stand was built for Bristol Harlequins RFC before Rovers moved into the ground years later, it seems odd a regional rugby club requiring a two storey press box, when the stand itself only held 500 fans. The old wooden 500 seater rugby stand was demolished in 1924 and in the summer of that year a 2000 seater stand including a paddock,dressing rooms and club offices were built. The ground at that time was rectangular and the layout was changed to an ovoid type in 1932 to accommodate a greyhound track. What was the paddock for if the greyhound track only appeared later? |
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Post by Biggsy on Mar 15, 2024 15:54:44 GMT
The old wooden 500 seater rugby stand was demolished in 1924 and in the summer of that year a 2000 seater stand including a paddock,dressing rooms and club offices were built. The ground at that time was rectangular and the layout was changed to an ovoid type in 1932 to accommodate a greyhound track. What was the paddock for if the greyhound track only appeared later? For horses maybe,I really dont know but the greyhounds when racing began were kept in the kennels situated in the Muller Road car park. |
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Post by kentgas on Mar 15, 2024 16:46:56 GMT
The old wooden 500 seater rugby stand was demolished in 1924 and in the summer of that year a 2000 seater stand including a paddock,dressing rooms and club offices were built. The ground at that time was rectangular and the layout was changed to an ovoid type in 1932 to accommodate a greyhound track. What was the paddock for if the greyhound track only appeared later? Didn’t this just mean the standing enclosure in front of the stand? |
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 20:24:10 GMT
Yes,to some a paddock and to others,enclosure.Paddock/Kop had more northern connotations.
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