Etihad site and Utd’s Bank St

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I’ve posted a comparison map which can be slid from one side to the other to show the site of the Etihad Stadium today and then how it was back in 1910 when Utd’s ground was nearby. You can see it here:

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United’s Bank Street and City’s Etihad Then and Now

I’m not certain how many match going fans realise how close the site of Manchester City’s is to the site of Manchester United’s old Bank Street ground. The Reds moved back in 1910…
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Knew a guy who owned the land where the ground stood. He and a business partner ran a concrete fencing manufacturing company on the site. Told me that often he used to get people wandering onto the premises asking to have a look around. He said he was digging out an area one time so he could put a porta cabin in and dug up some of the old wooden terrace. The land was compulsory purchased for the Manchester Olympics bid.
 
The City of Manchester Stadium was originally meant to be United’s ground. For the 2000 Olympics bid, the 80,000 stadium that would have been built there would have seen United move in after the Games, next to their original home.
 
Anyone know what area Bank Street is in? Is it Clayton or Bradford?

I don’t think Bank Street is in Newton Heath. That’s further up past Phillip’s Park to the North East.

The Etihad is classed as Bradford. But does Bradofrd stretch that far across?
 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
Anyone know what area Bank Street is in? Is it Clayton or Bradford?

I don’t think Bank Street is in Newton Heath. That’s further up past Phillip’s Park to the North East.

The Etihad is classed as Bradford. But does Bradofrd stretch that far across?
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Bank Street is in Clayton mate ..... I was born only yards from where the Etihad now stands, inbetween Phillips park and what is now the Co-op Arena, i spent my first 12 years of my life living around there, and we had a Bradford, Manchester address ..... Bradford Colliery stood on the Etihad site, with Johnsons wireworks close by.

My old primary school was on the land where Asda now stands, and, thinking back 56 years, I'm pretty sure that it had a Bradford address too!

A warehouse place that i worked at back in the early 'noughties' was sited right next to Bank Street, at its junction with Ashton New Road, and that had a Clayton address.

And yes, United did play at Bank Street, after being founded by a scouse foreman in a Newton Heath Trainyard, so they are definitely a Manchester club ... despite what a few of our fans think!
 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
Anyone know what area Bank Street is in? Is it Clayton or Bradford?

I don’t think Bank Street is in Newton Heath. That’s further up past Phillip’s Park to the North East.

The Etihad is classed as Bradford. But does Bradofrd stretch that far across?
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The Etihad campus is in Bradford and Beswick
 
Eaststander1 said:
Bank Street is in Clayton mate ..... I was born only yards from where the Etihad now stands, inbetween Phillips park and what is now the Co-op Arena, i spent my first 12 years of my life living around there, and we had a Bradford, Manchester address ..... Bradford Colliery stood on the Etihad site, with Johnsons wireworks close by.

My old primary school was on the land where Asda now stands, and, thinking back 56 years, I'm pretty sure that it had a Bradford address too!

A warehouse place that i worked at back in the early 'noughties' was sited right next to Bank Street, at its junction with Ashton New Road, and that had a Clayton address.

And yes, United did play at Bank Street, after being founded by a scouse foreman in a Newton Heath Trainyard, so they are definitely a Manchester club ... despite what a few of our fans think!
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Eaststander1 said:
Bank Street is in Clayton mate ..... I was born only yards from where the Etihad now stands, inbetween Phillips park and what is now the Co-op Arena, i spent my first 12 years of my life living around there, and we had a Bradford, Manchester address ..... Bradford Colliery stood on the Etihad site, with Johnsons wireworks close by.

My old primary school was on the land where Asda now stands, and, thinking back 56 years, I'm pretty sure that it had a Bradford address too!

A warehouse place that i worked at back in the early 'noughties' was sited right next to Bank Street, at its junction with Ashton New Road, and that had a Clayton address.

And yes, United did play at Bank Street, after being founded by a scouse foreman in a Newton Heath Trainyard, so they are definitely a Manchester club ... despite what a few of our fans think!
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Guess you went to queen street, I grew up in Hutchins street 1958/1970
 
blumanchu said:
Guess you went to queen street, I grew up in Hutchins street 1958/1970
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Bang on .... Queen Street it was! And I lived on Hutchins Street myself, more or less from birth in the late fifties to around 1969, when the council moved us all away so they could use the land .... we then relocated to the concrete bullrings of Hulme for the next decade!.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
The City of Manchester Stadium was originally meant to be United’s ground. For the 2000 Olympics bid, the 80,000 stadium that would have been built there would have seen United move in after the Games, next to their original home.
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That was pie in the sky after the 1992 and 1996 bids got no where near so doubt there were any firm plans. They were even deluded enough to have a victory party thing at Castlefield. Maybe there would be half a chance now if London didn't get it in 2012, but there wasn't a remote possibility the then then.
 
The border was approx at the bricklayers arms pub sat underneath the bridge that spanned the new rd.
 
Corky said:
That was pie in the sky after the 1992 and 1996 bids got no where near so doubt there were any firm plans. They were even deluded enough to have a victory party thing at Castlefield. Maybe there would be half a chance now if London didn't get it in 2012, but there wasn't a remote possibility the then then.
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I was at that 'victory party thing at Castlefield' it was in 1993 ISTR - we got stuck in a lock-in at the Britons Protection afterwards!
 
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