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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2009 23:28:16 GMT
Couldn't resist this picture from a guide book to Nottingham: - Meadow Lane (top) - we were in the right-hand stand on Sunday - City Ground (middle) - Trent Bridge (bottom)  Pevsner Architectural Guide to Nottingham |
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Post by aussie on Oct 14, 2009 16:10:26 GMT
Do you recon any one has ever cleared the stand and landed a footy in the river? Be easier at the rugby ground!
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 14, 2009 18:14:26 GMT
Of course Notts County once played at Trent Bridge, as did Forest. Indeed they took over the pitch vacated by Forest in 1882. It may well not have been a coincidence that County were thought the more 'gentlemanly' club and that the club secretary just happened to be the secretary of Nottinghamshire Cricket Club! The grandstand was located along Fox Road, as seen in the map below, and the houses behind can be seen in Barton's picture. The new grandstand seen in his picture, running down from the large tower block to the bottom of the picture, is in the same position but encroaches onto the football pitch playing surface. The photo below shows the original grandstands used by the County at Trent Bridge and was taken at their last game against Aston Villa on the 16th of April 1910, after which they moved across the river to Meadow Lane. The ground was so well thought off that it was actually used for a number of F.A. Cup semi-finals in County's time there. |
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 14, 2009 20:57:39 GMT
How about this lot walking across the Bridge after a Notts County game at Trent Bridge in 1905.... |
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Post by chrish on Oct 14, 2009 21:09:30 GMT
Do you recon any one has ever cleared the stand and landed a footy in the river? Be easier at the rugby ground! It might be easier when the fairly recently built Trent End at the City Ground slides into the Trent! I'd be very surprised if one of Robert Rosario's, Jason Lee's or Andrea Silenzi's many miscued shots didn't trouble the local shipping. |
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 14, 2009 22:52:30 GMT
Taken a couple of years ago this photo shows a view from the Radcliffe Road end of Trent Bridge, from next to the tower block and therefore the opposite end to the 1910 picture above. It near enough looks right down Notts County's pitch from the goal mouth with the stand to the left being where the original football stand was albeit the one shown here coming out and onto the original pitch. This picture, taken on the same day, shows the proximity of the two league grounds with Notts County's stand to the right and Forest's Brian Clough Stand across the Trent. |
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Post by merse on Oct 15, 2009 3:34:08 GMT
 All I can say is that had he been there in those days, the phantom "Hat Nicker" of Stevenage would have had a field day  Nottingham was always my idea of nirvanna when I was younger......................Two adjacent football grounds, a first class cricket ground and Test venue to boot, a racecourse, ice rink; plenty of professional boxing and some of the best (and worse)boozers in the world ~ oh and an alleged ratio of four women gagging for it in the clubs to every male. You can' t really beat that can you! Times had changed and I had got old the last time I went there with Kipper though.....................the once brilliant Trent Navigation pub in Meadow Lane looked ready for demolition, was being run on a match day only basis by a team of lesbians (honest to God ALL the staff including bar persons, door persons and pot woman resembled redundant lorry drivers and the stock behind the bar consisted of a couple of kegs delivered purely for the day and a cardboard outer of crisp packets! I thought I had died and gone to hell, and then on the way into the ground we saw Howard Wilkinson pushing a blanket wrapped Jimmy Sirrell in his wheelchair...........................a bit of Sirrell surreality for sure!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2009 19:20:20 GMT
And it was in a crowd like that - crossing Trent Bridge - that I learnt of our FA Cup defeat against Hillingdon Borough.
I wonder what that building is in the background? I reckon it is where the curved office block in my photo is now.
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 16, 2009 10:30:54 GMT
I've been trying to find out myself... I think it has to be where you say Barton, that piece of land on the corner..
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 16, 2009 12:51:27 GMT
Just for Barton! I have, at last, found the answer to the purpose of the building shown in the picture I posted of fans crossing Trent Bridge after a game... It was the short-lived (one year!) Indian Raj, Empire style pavilion opened in May 1903 and which burnt down on the night of the 4th of July 1904. It was described in a report from the Nottingham Daily Express, 28 May 1903, as 'a schoolhouse of all nations'. The Industrial Hall had two floors with 50,000 square feet of space. Attractions included a Canadian water chute of 100 ft in height with a slope and dip of 600ft, a maze, Fairy River with a lane of stalactites a mile long, brilliantly illuminated with all the bright and rich colours of a giant array of prisms, distorting mirrors, American roller coaster, photography studio and Concert Hall. During the night of 4 July 1904, a short circuit in the electrical wiring of the 'Fairy River' caused a fire. The blaze was not discovered until it had taken hold of a large section of the building. The building was completely gutted and the fire spread to the Nottingham Forest Club pavilion, which was also destroyed. The exhibition was closed and the remains cleared away. So my picture must be from 1904 or 1905 (not 1906 as stated, it came from the Book of Football published in that year). And interesting to note the football theme in that Forest's 'pavilion' burnt down with Forest's ground situated right behind the water-chute to the left in the photo. Indeed, the stand running alongside the Trent is the last building in the top photo, starting above the horse's head and going out of shot. The two gabled buildings, both boat-houses, next to the stand are still there today as can be seen in the photo I took a few years ago... And which shows where the new River Trent stand was built to ultimately replace the one seen in the 1904 picture. (There was another in-between these two as seen in a photo below) The following pictures show Foerst's ground in various guises over the years and in relation to the Raj Empire building site and the boathouses etc.. This picture has a bit of an optical illusion, at first it's difficult to see the River Trent stand, but it is there!By the period of the picture below note how the stand is being used to advertise products...This picture, below, shows the ground now built up with terracing at one end and a stand on the far side, even though there's still a barrel-roofed stand on the near-side. And there's a new boathouse appeared next to the ground...This photo below shows the later stand, built to replace the original, which itself was replaced by the one shown in my colour picture above.In this picture below it's possible to see Meadow Lane to the right as well as the Forest ground.This picture below is very interesting, look closely and it's possible to see the new grandstand (named later 'The Brian Clough Stand') being built behind the original. Also visible is Trent Bridge Cricket ground. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 20:10:22 GMT
Brilliant, Budleigh. There's more about the pavilion and the Home and International Exhibition of 1903 at www.studygroup.org.uk/Exhibitions/Pages/1903%20Nottingham.htm (an essential site for those fascinated by the history of exhibitions).  I spent some time as a student in Nottingham and know the city reasonably well. Many years later I paid a return visit and was at the Forest v Spurs FA Cup game which was abandoned because of a blizzard after about twenty minutes. After a couple of pints nearby, we then slipped through an open gate of the cricket ground and made for the wicket in about six inches of snow. Marvellous! I was also once in a pub in Nottingham where I was served by a barman wearing a Torquay BGS sixth form blazer. I need reassurance it wasn't a member of this forum. Or was it? |
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Post by Mr_W on Oct 17, 2009 0:27:01 GMT
Brilliant, Budleigh. There's more about the pavilion and the Home and International Exhibition of 1903 at www.studygroup.org.uk/Exhibitions/Pages/1903%20Nottingham.htm (an essential site for those fascinated by the history of exhibitions). I spent some time as a student in Nottingham and know the city reasonably well. Many years later I paid a return visit and was at the Forest v Spurs FA Cup game which was abandoned because of a blizzard after about twenty minutes. After a couple of pints nearby, we then slipped through an open gate of the cricket ground and made for the wicket in about six inches of snow. Marvellous! I was also once in a pub in Nottingham where I was served by a barman wearing a Torquay BGS sixth form blazer. I need reassurance it wasn't a member of this forum. Or was it? ..thread slippage here but hey............. ...wow how fantastic re you getting served by someone in a TBGS VI form blazer Barton............... .........I notice nowadays from seeing around the town no such yellow badge exists for the VI form at TBGS methinks (I don't know even if a VI form exists as such these days tbh - I think its all gone US stylee with Year 11 and such like) - in my day 1972-77 - as my good and learned friend on here Andygulls will vouch - it was Clifford/Spragge/Pitman/Dobson as the four houses - with no badge distinction - only a different tie - with the house colour discretely hidden - I was Spragge - blue - nowadays I think the blazer badge has a different colour piping around it depending on the individuals' particular house (6 nowadays?) - can anyone confirm that? - I am of course the proud possessor of a TBGS red/black College scarf from Pickards in Union Street (AND my tie/blazer badge/Old Grammarians tie in the wardrobe in my flat here as we speak) - fairly confident that the yellow/black VI form version of the scarf existed as well..........wasn't so keen on the first three years having to wear (usually sssshh!) the cap - which seemed to spend more time being nicked by the tough kids from Audley than on my head anyway............ ........I suspect that red/black and yellow/black striped blazers may have existed once as well........Pickards had the monopoly on all this I recall........ ...anyway my good friend Andygulls from the same TBGS vintage as me may poss remember who might have moved to Nottingham? I alas do not...ah well fantakkers memories there............. ...oh btw superb to see that TBGS is still RIGHT up there with the best in the country on its academic results - respect to Mr Pike the Headmaster.............. ......fond memories of him in a class in 1974/75 as a youngish History teacher teaching us lot in the prefab in the old TBGS playground - Andygulls was in class too along with Tim Dodge I recall (4th yr? Andy - British Social and Economic History - when Queen were top with Bohemian Rhapsody anyway and Tim used to bring in Black Sabb and Camel records) and Mr Pike saying to us "Boys, one day I will be the Head of this fine school" or suchlike - oh how we laughed - we used to call him Roy as well I recall and spent more time discussing Deep Purple and the Sabbs than history......... .........fantastic well done Mr Pike sir........ ......and great memories of Mr Brian Laird - the finest Languages Teacher I ever had........French for me - I believe he taught Russian as well.........thank you sir as well... cheers Andy L mate (Andygulls) Chris Donovan TBGS Sep 1972 - Jul 1977 1C/2A1/3A1/4H/5B then Torquay Library on a WEP Aug 1977 - Jan 1978 (15 quid a week incr to £18 near the end) and Royal Navy Apr 1978 - Aug 2001 (where I had "considerably more fun") now Gosport Hants ........now how's the table looking? - oh dear - good luck later today lads........ |
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 18, 2009 8:40:34 GMT
This is another picture of Notts County playing on the cricket ground at Trent Bridge with the football stands behind which ran along Fox Road. This picture was taken near enough in the bottom right-hand corner of Trent Bridge in Barton's aerial picture, above, looking up towards the City Ground. (Loving the ref's outfit!) |
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 18, 2009 9:12:47 GMT
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