oxpete
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Oct 28, 2019, 8:07 PM
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Re: [Oxford Stone] Longest unchanged places to watch football
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Much of the South Stand at Fratton Park is the same structure that Archibald Leitch built (in 1925, I think). Obviously there are modern plastic seats fitted along with modern outer cladding, but the metal frame of the building, the metal roof supports and so on are all original and still visible. (Unfortunately, the old Leitch trademark lattice crosses on the front of the stand, similar to those at Goodison Park, were covered over about ten years ago).
I pretty sure that the large stand on the seafront side of Grimsby Town's Blundell Park is from when the ground was originally built in 1899. Lack of development over the years has been a positive here, I reckon.
The main stand at Ibrox Stadium must be one of the most completely unchanged football buildings of its size left in the world. I was lucky enough to attend a works meeting in their boardroom about ten years ago. Its beautiful outer red brickwork and its elegant inner marble flooring and staircase, plus wood-paneled trophy room, are more like a glamorous Victorian mansion house than a football ground. I also think I'm right in saying that Ibrox still has its original Leitch lattice crosses on the face of the stand. Well worth visiting if you ever have the chance.
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