european_bob wrote:

Is the baked potato restaurant still open?

I'd like to think so,but probably not i fear.

I'm willing to wager Neil Ross's tractor parts shop is still doing a roaring trade though.
 

It's ridiculous how big Firhill was. I mean, who were they expecting?!

Indeed, Hampden Ibrox and Celtic Park were the same. I think that all of them were designed by Archibald Leitch who also did the original main stand at Ibrox which was then sold to the Fun.  They all have that bowl shaped design with a main stand and terraced stand enclosure.  Rugby Park was also similar.  I was at the old Firhill for a few Junior Cup semis and finals at it was huge and had a cracking atmosphere with a big crowd in.

[img]http://www.raithmuseum.org/wp-content/gallery/starks-park/Stark's%20Park%20in%201923.jpg[/img]Anyone guess this ground? 

Pic was taken in 1923 but the stand is still there today, all be it refurbished obviously.

TEK wrote:

Sieb22 wrote:

[img]http://www.raithmuseum.org/wp-content/gallery/starks-park/Stark's%20Park%20in%201923.jpg[/img]Anyone guess this ground? 

Pic was taken in 1923 but the stand is still there today, all be it refurbished obviously.

Starks Park.
 

 
You are correct sir.

Few good ones.

Here's some, see if you can name them, most are pretty easy:





















 

1. Love Street
2. Shawfield
3. Rugby Park
4. Tynecastle (dump)
5. Queen of the Souths ground? Edit: Palmerston Park
6. Douglas Park
7. New Kilbowie Park
8. The Pigeon Loft
9. Broomfield
10. Easter Road or the Jungle at Parkhead?

Last edited by lifesanocean (07/11/2014 7:08 pm)

its the winter of 81 i think mate, the headline on the back is something about Dundee rockets being able to play on it...its shear ice across the entire playing surface...remember fairmuir park being the very same

stobievulture wrote:

also funny how a lot of stands had a wee bit round the corner..see pittodrie, tannadice and starks park

love this pic, someone has it on east football but it's original is mines, the old man worked in dc thomsons for 35 years and brought this home with others years ago...i posted it on utd mad donkeys ago

South Yorkshire Police are a bunch of cunts. A perfectly good ground changed due to incompetence and a massive Tory Police cover up
 

lifesanocean wrote:

Cathkin Park


Firhill
Separated at birth?
 

I had a wee walk round Cathkin Park recently LAO (another ground ticked aff the list).

Couldnae fucking believe just how big the pitch was.It's HUGE.

 

Our first Cup Final v Celtic in the Summer of '74.


The days just before segregation and replica strips became the rage.

Crowd looks suitably dark.

TEK wrote:

european_bob wrote:

 

Quite forgot about Clydebank's wee offices built on to New Kilbowie and Airdrie's mad 'Diamonds' brutalist masterpiece half stand'.

Even Celtic's main Stand looks brooding and menacing there.

Hillsborough fucked everything.

I hate the modern Barr breeze blocks.

Give me a terracing and some 60's architect's mad harebrained design ANYDAY.

Not a fan of modern grounds - Loathe going to the likes of Falkirk, Livingston, Airdrie etc. 

Bit of football ground trivia - The RHS stand in the photograph of Douglas Park was designed by Archibald Leitch, but when Douglas Park closed in 1994 the stand on the LHS was dismantled and rebuilt at Beechwood Park, Home of Auchinlech Talbot (see below).

 

Worthwhile read, if interest in football ground (also mentions Hillsborough as the death knell for alot of grounds and grandstands designed by Archibald Leitch).