Your Favourite City Memorabilia

glen quagmire said:
kippaxkid74 said:
glen quagmire said:
Can anyone shed some light on this? I was working near chelford station, and was sure i saw part of the old main stand roof in a field?????


Was it the white "barrels" of the roof stacked up on each other in piles?

If so yeah that was it!

I used to go to watch demolition 2 or 3 times a week, armed with my camera.
And with the roof - the only way they could get it down was to cut the 2 support beams pitch side and all the way along the outside edge facing the road too, and it was kind of just balanced on top... and diggers with chains pulled it forward in one go onto where all the seats used to be (it was quite a sight! To see the roof go in only 20 seconds!).
Anyway, the barrels were took apart section by section and a fork lift truck left them on the platt lane car park for a month or so, stacked up in groups of about 10 per pile. I'm pretty sure the gateman said they were going to be took somewhere else for disposal, not sure if it was an asbestos isses or something else. (When the north stand came down they found asbestos and had to shut down demolition for 24 hours while they got specialists in).

Anyway, how to sound a like a geek eh!!!
Sorry!

In answer to your question - yeah, it sounds like the roof was took there for storage til they could get rid another way. I'm sure i heard someone else say that it ended up being a field :)


Thanks mate.





happy to help :)


While i'm in geek mode, i had a nosey round the comp for a picture, but all my high res originals are on disc so all i could find was a tiny tiny low res shrunk one i must have shared someplace else before.

So here'd a picture i took of the main stand roof piled up in the platt lane car park, April 2004.

ETT_roof2004.jpg



here endeth my geeky posts, i swear ;)
 
That bloody Main Stand roof - it was the cause of a lot of our problems. I was reading in the 1982-83 season we had to spend about a million on it, which we had to pay for by selling Trevor Francis, and it left us with a squad of about 13 players. No wonder we ended up getting relegated when that lot got knackered, jaded etc and could only be replaced by the likes of Terry Park, Ron Hildersley and Peter Bodak (on loan from Man U!) Should have just left it roofless and got out the transparent cagoules!
 
kev1961 said:
i've got the holy grail

denis tueart's 1976 league cup final shirt along with a letter from alan kennedy
stating that this was the shirt he swapped with tueart at the end of the game.

cheers


got peter barnes as well
 
Unopened 4 pack of Man City Corinthian figures 1995-96 season
inc: Beagrie,Curle,Rosler & Flitcroft.
There was suppose to be a full boxted team available Dec 1996
but City were relagated that may.I dont think it was ever issued
then.please correct me if im wrong.
City club Mag : issue 1 i think signed by Rosler (maybe it issue 2)
got all the early years of it in any case.
City club Mag; signed by Kinkladze (goal v Southampton) one.
City club Mag : Steve Copell on the cover. This mag was withdrew
i think cos of his short time in office. in anycase it's near impossable
to find.
Ticket Stubs from games i attended : 23 Sep 1989 (main Stand)
9/11 2002 (Gene Kelly stand), Division 2 Playoff Final may 99
& FA Cup Final 2011.
Various book's by Gary James These must be collectables.
 
Agueros allegro said:
I have the ECWC final programme but mine does not say "gratis" on it,anybody any ideas why ?
Gratis is 'free' isn't it? So maybe he had his put out on his chair and you bought yours outside.
 

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