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Post by hector on May 24, 2010 22:31:31 GMT
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Post by Dave on May 24, 2010 22:35:13 GMT
Thanks for putting up the link Hector, I'll leave in this room for the time being and then move into our history room as it will be a great edition in there.
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Post by merse on May 24, 2010 22:50:46 GMT
 Blimey! That clip starts off showing my office and must have been filmed during my time there or just before. I've put the whole lot in my favourites, there's so much to look at in the coming weeks of long forgotten or altered grounds. Well done Hector ~ a real gem!
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Post by Swanny on May 25, 2010 19:04:36 GMT
The old Grandstand looks a lot longer in the film than it does now, it appeared to stretch to virtually to the away end. Clearly not much effort was made to rebuild the part that caught fire in the 80's.
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Post by Dave on May 25, 2010 19:08:25 GMT
The old Grandstand looks a lot longer in the film than it does now, it appeared to stretch to virtually to the away end. Clearly not much effort was made to rebuild the part that caught fire in the 80's. Only the part that is now used for the away fans got rebuilt and I have never understood why the stand was not rebuilt as it was before, there were two fires in that stand when Web owned the club and I'm sure the insurance company paid out both times.  |
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Post by merse on May 25, 2010 20:19:51 GMT
Only the part that is now used for the away fans got rebuilt and I have never understood why the stand was not rebuilt as it was before, there were two fires in that stand when Web owned the club and I'm sure the insurance company paid out both times. That might well be but it was "underinsured" to keep the premiums payable to a minimum.................you only get what you pay for! Having suffered the vagaries of the terrible wiring of the electrical system in that rickety old building, I'm not surprised there was a fire and one of my abiding memories is of coming into work one morning and finding the safe apparently "missing" ~ it had fallen through the wooden floor!  It never did go all the way down to the Babbacombe End corner flag anyway. |
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Post by Dave on May 25, 2010 20:59:21 GMT
What the video clip really shows is what a sorry and run down football ground Plainmoor looked in 1979 and it really has a look of a ground just after the war two had ended.
I don’t really remember feeling at the time this clip was taken that the ground looked in a sorry state, maybe it had looked that way for so long and maybe even when I went to my first ever game that is was a look that was just normal in my eyes.
I still remember so well the day I came into the ground and saw the Babbacombe end steps all removed and a row of cars parked to the left of the goal for sale. I do not believe there were any health and safety issues with the terraced steps that were there and it has to have been the most bizarre thing to ever happen at a football ground.
With the stand then having the two fires and portacabins having to be set up and used behind the then mini-stand, the ground really did look very poor and not a ground we could ever feel proud about.
I have expressed my view before that I felt Mike Bateson build the new popside and the new away end far too small, but the man does deserve a great deal of credit for the ground improvements he did do.
While the new board has spent money improving No’10s etc, the whole stand as it stands was put there by Bateson and I also felt it was such a shame that the original plan to move the old family stand to the away end could not happen. Maybe merse will know more, but I believe it was simply the case it was discovered it could not be taken apart and then put back together again.
If the council had been prepared to sell the ground to Bateson when he wanted to buy it, I’m sure he would have then pressed on and built a new main stand, if and when they ever does get replaced the ground will look a reasonably tidy little ground and certainly better than it did in 1979
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Post by stewart on May 25, 2010 21:45:46 GMT
I have expressed my view before that I felt Mike Bateson build the new popside and the new away end far too small.... Rotting old railway sleepers on all the terraces gave the ground its essential character in the old days, but of course they had to be rebuilt and reinforced in the interests of spectator safety. The away end and the family stand are an infinite improvement on what they used to be. You couldn't see much from the cowshed anyway, unless you stood right down the front. The removal of the ability to walk down to the other end and stand behind the goal which we were attacking are an infinite regression. Having been an absentee from Plainmoor for many years after 1968, I was shocked and saddened when I suddenly realised that the old popular side, which seemed to stretch back almost into the skies, had been replaced by the current featureless concrete steps and brick wall. Most of the games which I have described in the programme section were observed from the railway sleepers of that huge expanse of terracing, and I still sit in the family stand now and picture that magnificent structure heaving with humanity. |
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Post by Jon on May 25, 2010 22:01:27 GMT
The old Grandstand looks a lot longer in the film than it does now, it appeared to stretch to virtually to the away end. Clearly not much effort was made to rebuild the part that caught fire in the 80's. Extraordinary item £79,000 - surplus of insurance monies received over cost of demolition and removal of fire damaged grandstand. Nudge nudge wink wink say no more squire say no more.  |
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Post by yellowstew on May 25, 2010 22:03:09 GMT
Thank god the council never did sell Mr B the ground , look at the con man he sold to. Where would we be know. Its never the problem of the current owner but the future.
Forever may Plainmoor belong to the people of Torbay.
(Although you never know carroll & bye may try and build a fish & chip shop on the half way line without telling anyone !)
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Post by Jon on May 25, 2010 22:09:07 GMT
If the council had been prepared to sell the ground to Bateson ...... Roberts would have got his hands on it, borrowed against it and bye bye TUFC. Freeholds attract vultures - as I may have mentioned before. |
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Post by yellowstew on May 25, 2010 22:12:13 GMT
spot on Wrexham & I think Cambridge United would testify to that!
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Post by Jon on May 25, 2010 22:13:56 GMT
Roberts would have got his hands on it, borrowed against it and bye bye TUFC. Freeholds attract vultures - as I may have mentioned before. Oops. Shouldn't answer posts before catching up to date - I see Yellowstew beat me to it! |
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Post by Rob on May 25, 2010 23:25:38 GMT
If the council had been prepared to sell the ground to Bateson ...... Roberts would have got his hands on it, borrowed against it and bye bye TUFC. Freeholds attract vultures - as I may have mentioned before. I concur. Please Dave - don't go there again. |
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Post by ospelgull on May 26, 2010 6:21:14 GMT
Ahh Duncam Adams Football Ground Guide. Brings back sweet memories of some ten years ago. With internet being just introduced in the area I lived, this site was pure pornography for me. All 92 footballcubs put together on one site!
The clips of the various grounds are simply brilliant!
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