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Post by Andy K on Jun 3, 2013 15:27:58 GMT
In case you missed the shoutbox at the bottom, bornatotter found this cracking picture which I think deserves it's own thread!!
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Great find Totts, thanks!
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Post by Juan on Jun 3, 2013 17:56:34 GMT
I think, I may have some more pics of that...in the box of archived bits ! I'll see if I can find it at the weekend! Ive certainly got pics of the old Collingwood Terrace, railway sleeper jobbie!
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Post by Stewart on Jun 3, 2013 17:59:39 GMT
 I think I prefer the old stands, white fence, mature trees and the lack of advertising boards! |
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Post by markf2 on Jun 3, 2013 18:22:13 GMT
I migrated from the main stand to the one on the right hand side when I first started watching. The "old" chap taking the money was a fella called Ernie, if I recall. "Came out" onto the terraces the following season.
Look how well kept the running track looks and the white picket fence looks great. To stand in front of the stands in the so called enclosure cost more than outside of it. Not sure what difference it made but that was the custom back then.
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Post by bornatotter on Jun 3, 2013 19:01:58 GMT
Thanks andy for sticking this up mate. I should have opened a new thread. Believe it or not the kid in the yellow shirt with the blond hair at the right of the pic may well be me at the age of thirteen. Can't be sure but I think it is me talking to my mate mikey tye who used to go to games with me at that time. I used to blow my pocket money on old programmes in the old club shop just behind the stand. Thanks to groundtastic for the pic though. A truly brilliant football site.
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Post by os on Jun 3, 2013 19:18:32 GMT
That one at the end used to creak and sway a bit if you got a few people in it  |
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Post by markf2 on Jun 3, 2013 20:01:56 GMT
You & me both Mr Trotter and I'm still spending my pocket money on old progs.
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Post by bornatotter on Jun 3, 2013 20:35:08 GMT
Mark. In a totter household recycling operation the thousands of programmes I had accumulated over forty odd years all got donated back to the Sutton club shop last year including loads that would have come from the old shop in the first place. What goes around comes around.
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Post by sallycat on Jun 4, 2013 12:32:34 GMT
Blimey! I see the old pavilion in the background too. Does anyone know when that stand went, exactly? |
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Post by Andy K on Jun 4, 2013 12:42:51 GMT
Blimey! I see the old pavilion in the background too. Does anyone know when that stand went, exactly? If I'm right it may have gone for the 85 season - I think it was part of the improvements needed for going into the Conference. It certainly had gone by 87 when I first went to the lane. |
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Post by sallycat on Jun 4, 2013 12:53:08 GMT
The reason I asked that was because of the same thing that caused me to go blimey. I'd forgotten that stand had ever existed but as soon as I saw that picture, I had all these memories flooding back of when my mum first used to take me and my brothers to Collingwood Rec. I was about 3, and I turned 3 in 1985.
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Post by Del on Jun 4, 2013 19:56:55 GMT
Was it Ladies Day at the time?
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Post by markf2 on Jun 4, 2013 20:04:43 GMT
Stand went for the covered terrace for our step up to the Conference in 86 (may have been there for the start of the 85/6 season. The old stands had long been condemned before that though. The Pavillion lasted some years more, although was not used. I think it was knocked down a decade or so ago.
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Post by Juan on Jun 4, 2013 20:18:19 GMT
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Post by fluffy rascal on Jun 5, 2013 13:12:23 GMT
The reason I asked that was because of the same thing that caused me to go blimey. I'd forgotten that stand had ever existed but as soon as I saw that picture, I had all these memories flooding back of when my mum first used to take me and my brothers to Collingwood Rec. I was about 3, and I turned 3 in 1985. Got a pic of the old Pavilion here www.flickr.com/photos/40120214@N02/6124434639/sizes/l/in/set-72157627618271108/ |
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