A church at Maine Road? Well before my time.

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Fascinating stuff! In all my years I never knew there used to be a church on Maine Road.

 

[manclad]

How did they take that pic BITD ?

Can’t have been a drone :-)

A man with a camera in an aeroplane??
The RFC ( Royal Flying Corps) were taking recce photos of the German Army advancing through Belgium in 1914.
So it wasn't new technology in the 1950s.

 

[WARBABY]

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

yes they were usually knitted by your mother or auntie, also did you notice the kids in the short pants in them days you didn't wear long ones till you were over 14

 

[manclad]

Fascinating stuff! In all my years I never knew there used to be a church on Maine Road.

Ditto.
My Dad was going to Maine Road regularly in the late 1940s and 1950s and never mentioned it to me once.


I wonder if the "Repent All You Sinners" placard man was left behind by that church to try and convert the heathens descending on Maine Road every other weekend.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

If I recall correctly, the church was demolished to become the site of the Social Club.

 

[WARBABY]

If I recall correctly, the church was demolished to become the site of the Social Club.

I think the church was demolished a while before the social club was built

 

[kippaxkid74]

Stan's daughter Janice from the souvenir shop told me that when the church was knocked down they took the font and had it in their back garden!

In that last season at Maine Road Janice was always talking to me and mum for ages, she knew how much we didn't want to leave, so found a kindred spirit to reminisce to.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Manchester City, ruining aetheism since 1952

 

[jimharri]

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

Great picture.

I lived on Claremont Road for my first ten years. No 198, not far from the junction with Broadfield Road. Happy days.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

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

Great picture.

I scored the winning goal against your old school in a 1-0 win to Bishop Bilsborrow on Platt Fields in 1976.

 

[Luddite_Blue]

The church is in the background of this Bert Trautmann training photo from 1957.

 

[Luddite_Blue]

Photo of the Social Club from 1968.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Photo of the Social Club from 1968.

I thought the stand in the picture was the Kippax at first but it's the Main Stand.

 

[Luddite_Blue]

I thought the stand in the picture was the Kippax at first but it's the Main Stand.

This photo from 1950 shows the Main Stand closer up.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

This photo from 1950 shows the Main Stand closer up.

The roof looked like the Kippax. Was Main Stand seat or stand back then?

 

[xgorton]

The roof looked like the Kippax. Was Main Stand seat or stand back then?

Seated.

 

[Luddite_Blue]

The roof looked like the Kippax. Was Main Stand seat or stand back then?

The Main Stand was seated.

On the photo below the Main Stand roof looks a bit like the Kippax roof.

 

[johnnytapia]

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Too many women

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

The Main Stand was seated.

On the photo below the Main Stand roof looks a bit like the Kippax roof.

Platt Lane stand looked the same (after the New Main Stand roof was built) until that monstrosity of an enlarged Subbuteo like stand replaced it. I fuckin' hated the new Platt Land and Kippax stand. Two of many fuck ups sanctioned by the cheapskate, Swales.

 

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