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Oxford Stone
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Oct 25, 2019, 12:07 PM
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I was thinking back to places I've watched football and many of the early ones have disappeared - of course I've been to a few new grounds too:
New grounds visited
Wycombe Wanderers
Oxford United
Oxford City
Leicester City
Reading
Derby County
Thame United
Wembley
Stade de France
Millennium Stadium
Maidstone United
MK Dons
AFC Bournemouth
Dartford
Disappeared grounds visited
Kettering
Irthlingborough Diamonds
Wembley
Thame United
Maidstone United
Horsham
Greenwich Borough
Slade Green
Hull City
Oxford United
AFC Bournemouth
Hendon
Sittingbourne (Central Park, Bourne Park)
Disappeared terraces stood on
Liverpool Kop
Peterborough (3 sides)
Swindon away end
Southend United away end (assume seating now?)
Billericay
The oldest place that has not changed since I saw a match there (if you see what I mean?) would be the east stand at Cambridge United (I was at CUFC v Bournemouth, Boxing Day 26/12/84) - as mentioned above, through the 80s I stood on 3 different sides at Peterborough including the amazing pitch-length terrace on the south side, long gone. So the ground is there but the terrace isn't.
Any advance on 1984? The higher the pyramid the better. Where would be the oldest "unchanged" spot in the Premier League, for example - what's the oldest surviving stand there? Guessing part of Villa Park?
(This post was edited by Oxford Stone on Oct 25, 2019, 1:26 PM)
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Chris1963
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Oct 27, 2019, 9:28 PM
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Surely Aldershot has to be the winner?
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Oxford Stone
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Oct 27, 2019, 10:30 PM
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Good shout, a lot of that ground must be unchanged since it was built.
I should add Bedford to my defunct grounds visited. Cup tie v Wimbledon early 80s. In the shadow of Charles Wells brewery IIRC?
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northstandexile
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Oct 27, 2019, 11:30 PM
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The East stand at Hillsborough must come into contention
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JohnD
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Oct 28, 2019, 4:07 PM
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Barnsley's West Stand was built in the early 1900's. The top "tier" has seats unchanged from then. The bottom tier has seats bolted to the old paddock.
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northstandexile
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Oct 28, 2019, 4:09 PM
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The East stand at Hillsborough must come into contention Maybe the North Stand, built in 1961 i believe. The 'East Bank' is the Kop, which was made larger and a roof added in 1986.
Sorry meant the stand on the side, on the left when looking from the kop.
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oxpete
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Oct 28, 2019, 8:07 PM
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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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kirby knitters
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Oct 28, 2019, 9:05 PM
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Ibrox unchanged with the beautiful Leitch stand but im pretty sure a third tier was added in the late 80s early 90s. An official gave me an unofficial tour of the place 30 years ago and it was a sight to behold.
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prorege
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Oct 29, 2019, 8:40 PM
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No real structural alterations to Arbroath's Gayfield Park since the early 1960s when the covered areas behind each goal were built.
Floodlights added in 1972 but nothing has changed since.
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oxpete
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Nov 13, 2019, 12:38 AM
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Not sure this is the sort of thing you originally meant, but it's good to
see that there are still shards of glass and broken bottles embedded into concrete on top of some of the walls along the outside of the North Stand and Milton End at Fratton Park...
https://www.google.com/...g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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