Old Maine Road photos thread

[Luddite_Blue]

 

[Luddite_Blue]

 

[Dirty Harry]

Is that a young Slabhead looking on, learning his pick up technique ?

 

[eyalluvitt]

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

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Is that a young Slabhead looking on, learning his pick up technique ?

That is a brilliant photo. It's saying such a lot. A real piece of social history.
Northern wide boy, with his mate gawping on. The girl closest to the camera looks charmed. In any case, ready to hear more. The girl in the middle looks skeptical to me — “Go on, you think you impress me?”. The girl farthest away looks as though she's trying to find out some important information. The bloke on the right looks truly gormless. But comparing him to Maguire is cruel: on him.

 

[Dirty Harry]

That is a brilliant photo. It's saying such a lot. A real piece of social history.
Northern wide boy, with his mate gawping on. The girl closest to the camera looks charmed. In any case, ready to hear more. The girl in the middle looks skeptical to me — “Go on, you think you impress me?”. The girl farthest away looks as though she's trying to find out some important information. The bloke on the right looks truly gormless. But comparing him to Maguire is cruel: on him.

Yes it really is and like a scene from a film, almost iconic, but it did remind me of this :-

 

[manimanc]

Well done to the Claremont for clinging on - Sherwood, Clarence, Birch Hotel, Beehive, The Whitworth, Parkside all gone.

The Whitworth was our before and after pint for a long time.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

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Ok, I've finally got a sense of home about the Etihad.
But by God, I miss this. So much…
It was a truly glamorous place for the teenager that I was.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Some swamp ones in the mix but great pics of Blues in the seventies here.

Incredible pictures of City and United fans in the 1970s by Iain S.P. Reid

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Mind your car sir

 

[Gray]

Famous game:-

 

[fulhamfever]

Do miss Maine Road

 

[Luddite_Blue]

 

[Luddite_Blue]

 

[Luddite_Blue]

 

[Luddite_Blue]

 

[mancityvstoke]

I really miss dog shit on my trainers

 

[J.G.Blue.]

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Back when Richard 'el Cockroach' Wright first joined the club

Early 60s? Thats how I first remember the ground.

 

[KS55]

That’s interesting. I don’t recall the Platt Lane ever having reserved seats. I thought it was always sit where you like. Unless the numbers were purely for keeping track on how many they’d sold?

I bought tickets for Platt Lane a couple of times back in mid sixties. 5/-.

 

[Gray]

Famous game:-
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By the way that is part of my programme collection and I was at the match, note the sentence under the picture "Covered accommodation for 50,000".

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

By the way that is part of my programme collection and I was at the match, note the sentence under the picture "Covered accommodation for 50,000".

Dont remember the tunnel in the corner between Kippax and North stand, anyone know when was that removed?