A church at Maine Road? Well before my time.

[bladdered]

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

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Is this 2023, everybody on strike?

 

[Lavinda Past]

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Two bob to watch City?

Sod that, I'm jibbing in the kids entrance.

 

[xgorton]

Going off that poster it's the cup game v Wolves 2-2 January 1952,Also the social club would have been built just past that building in the 60s.

 

[unicorn]

Nice scarf on the left. Were they common in the early '50s ?

 

[Shrimp]

They must be turnstiles onto the old Scoreboard End ?
Our former Groundsman Stan Gibson ended up living in one of the houses you can see.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

The Church was there until the early/mid 60s when it was replaced by the social club which in its self became a place of worship for many.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

They must be turnstiles onto the old Scoreboard End ?
Our former Groundsman Stan Gibson ended up living in one of the houses you can see.

Yep, he lived in the one on the right as you are looking at it.

 

[East Level 2]

Going off that poster it's the cup game v Wolves 2-2 January 1952,Also the social club would have been built just past that building in the 60s.

I saw this picture elsewhere and it claimed to be fans queueing for cup final tickets in 1955. We played Wolves at home a few weeks before Wembley.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I saw this picture elsewhere and it claimed to be fans queueing for cup final tickets in 1955. We played Wolves at home a few weeks before Wembley.

Yeah I saw that as well, and the Wolves game advertised on the poster is a 6:30 kick off (City beat Wolves 3-0 on Wednesday April 20th 1955)

 

[manclad]

Yeah I saw that as well, and the Wolves game advertised on the poster is a 6:30 kick off (City beat Wolves 3-0 on Wednesday April 20th 1955)

I would think a 6.30 pm KO would require floodlights (even in mid-April) ,and floodlights were first used at Maine Road in 1953.
So it looks like the 1955 date is correct.

 

[manclad]

Yep, he lived in the one on the right as you are looking at it.

Is that the same house/dwelling that became the offices of City In The Community,where Alex Williams was based ??

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Is that the same house/dwelling that became the offices of City In The Community,where Alex Williams was based ??

Yep. Can also see the roof of my old school at Claremont Road in the top left hand corner.

Great picture.

 

[kenny1312]

Trying to get my bearings on that photo. If that's the roof of the school on Claremont Road in the background then my dads cousin used to live on Carlton Avenue which would be behind the church on that photo I think.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Trying to get my bearings on that photo. If that's the roof of the school on Claremont Road in the background then my dads cousin used to live on Carlton Avenue which would be behind the church on that photo I think.

I think that's correct. Carlton ran along the back of the Social.

 

[tregyblue61]

Not a brilliant picture, not sure when taken but you can see the church in the distance....

 

[Manx Blue]

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Magnificent photo Bladdered...many thanks for sharing!

 

[manclad]

Not a brilliant picture, not sure when taken but you can see the church in the distance....

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Fuck me, imagine trying to get away early from that car park,and your car is parked smack bang in the middle of that lot. You ain't getting home until midnight !!!

 

[Goatmeal]

Not a brilliant picture, not sure when taken but you can see the church in the distance....

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How did they take that pic BITD ?

Can’t have been a drone :-)

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

So the perimeter of the ground went from Stan Gibson's house?
Meaning the spot where the Pink Caravan was placed each week would have been behind the turnstiles - and to walk from the Main Stand to the Kippax you'd either have to go via dog shit alley behind Platt Lane or down to Claremont Road, turn right and onto Kippax Street?

Bloody hell, I sound like Eddie off Early Doors!