Hyde Road Stadium

JOGAMIGMOG said:
Best thread on the Bluemoon Forum page in ages!
I would love the club to commission somebody to recreate a 3d model of Hyde Road and put it on display. Either that or do it on the computer and even recreate some old matches using cgi technology or A1 or whatever it’s called. Do the same for Maine Road too. Our history is brilliant and bringing it back to life in this manner is a great way for everyone to engage with it.
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Like the opening post in this thread also said; I don’t think the current employees of City are really bothered about our history.

I’ve emailed them a number of times asking for more of our history to be pushed and barely anything ever is. I hope the museum that’s going to be built does our history some justice, finally.
 
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Gary James said:
Yes - the photo is definitely OT and the testimonial was a regular league game. Back then testimonials were often ordinary league games and the player involved would not only get the profits but also money collected on the day. In my first book (From Maine Men To Banana Citizens) I included a newspaper drawing of officials carrying around a blanket at a player’s testimonial for fans to throw coins on to. That would’ve come in handy at Boundary Park and Notts County in the 80s when City fans were lobbing coins at stewards etc. They could’ve raised a few quid!
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Bloody hell that brings back memories I can't believe you wrote that book.
I used to read it every day.
Thanks blue
 
I have this picture that’s been colour enhanced of the 1903-04 City Hyde Road team - who very nearly went on to win the First Division and FA Cup double (although the FA Cup win and celebrations probably stopped us winning the league a few days later as we lost to Everton where a win could have won us the title as well) that season - outside the Grand Hotel.

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I don’t think that Grand Hotel is the city centre Grand Hotel on Aytoun Street. Looks more like a pub.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I have this picture that’s been colour enhanced of the 1903-04 City Hyde Road team - who very nearly went on to win the First Division and FA Cup double (although the FA Cup win and celebrations probably stopped us winning the league a few days later as we lost to Everton where a win could have won us the title as well) that season - outside the Grand Hotel.

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I don’t think that Grand Hotel is the city centre Grand Hotel on Aytoun Street. Looks more like a pub.
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What a fabulous picture! I too have the 1904 team in my downstairs loo but sadly not colourised. Baffles me why nobody at City has got this sorted out. We should be colourising all sorts of classic pics.
 

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dario2739 said:
Maybe something Gary James can shed more light on, but just been reading an article that suggests that the IRA could have been responsible for torching the stand at Hyde Road!
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It’s an interesting angle but not so certain myself. There was a plot connected with a game at Old Trafford by the Hyde Rd fire was nothing more than a stray cigarette in an old wooden stand (According to reports and people like Eric Alexander who’s grandad was a key director at this time). We saw how quickly the main stand at Bradford went up so the cig idea seems genuine.
 
Manchester City council have a Commemorative plaques schemes Manchester City FC Clowes Street is listed

Red commemorative plaques | The Commemorative Plaques scheme | Manchester City Council

The city council has sponsored a programme of commemorative plaques celebrating buildings and sites associated with famous people and more recently events of importance
www.manchester.gov.uk www.manchester.gov.uk

Unfortunately it is a red one

Red commemorative plaques | The Commemorative Plaques scheme | Manchester City Council

The city council has sponsored a programme of commemorative plaques celebrating buildings and sites associated with famous people and more recently events of importance
www.manchester.gov.uk www.manchester.gov.uk
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I have this picture that’s been colour enhanced of the 1903-04 City Hyde Road team - who very nearly went on to win the First Division and FA Cup double (although the FA Cup win and celebrations probably stopped us winning the league a few days later as we lost to Everton where a win could have won us the title as well) that season - outside the Grand Hotel.

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I don’t think that Grand Hotel is the city centre Grand Hotel on Aytoun Street. Looks more like a pub.
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At the risk of unleashing a torch wielding mob, those dark blue socks look brilliant with the sky blue shirts! The shorts are the complete antithesis of the short shorts of the 80s, thankfully.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
As you approach Piccadilly, the containers / former ground are on the right
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It depends on what line you are on.

The site is in the fork between the Stockport and London Euston line and that which leads to Hadfield, Marple, and Sheffield via Marple. So they could be on your left or on your right.
 
BrianW said:
It depends on what line you are on.

The site is in the fork between the Stockport and London Euston line and that which leads to Hadfield, Marple, and Sheffield via Marple. So they could be on your left or on your right.
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Yes thanks - should have been more specific, I was talking about being on the right coming in via Stockport or the airport
 
BrianW said:
It depends on what line you are on.

The site is in the fork between the Stockport and London Euston line and that which leads to Hadfield, Marple, and Sheffield via Marple. So they could be on your left or on your right.
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The site on the left of the train heading south out of picadilly on the main line to Stockport.



When I panned the camera on the bridge, 10/12 seconds in you can see how close to the new ground it is.

Nothing in the site now suggests there is anything left of the original stands. Not that clear from the vid but I go past a few times a week on the train.
 
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Gaudion M said:
The site on the left of the train heading south out of picadilly on the main line to Stockport.



When I panned the camera on the bridge, 10/12 seconds in you can see how close to the new ground it is.

Nothing in the site now suggests there is anything left of the original stands. Not that clear from the vid but I go past a few times a week on the train.
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Thanks for that.
There hasn't been anything left at all from the ground for decades.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Thanks for that.
There hasn't been anything left at all from the ground for decades.
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Sacred ground.

Would love to get into the site and have a look about. You can see old foundations but they align with the rail line. The ground was at a quirky angle so anything lining up at 45 to everything else would probably be part of an old stand.
 
Gaudion M said:
Sacred ground.

Would love to get into the site and have a look about. You can see old foundations but they align with the rail line. The ground was at a quirky angle so anything lining up at 45 to everything else would probably be part of an old stand.
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Makes me think of those native American burial grounds that were ridden over roughshod by the coming of the white man and all his “civilisation”…
 
Aba452 said:
At the risk of unleashing a torch wielding mob, those dark blue socks look brilliant with the sky blue shirts! The shorts are the complete antithesis of the short shorts of the 80s, thankfully.
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Am I imagining this, or weren't some of the very early games in the burgeoning football league, i.e. in the 1860s and 70s, played wearing caps? Or was that just for team photos?
 
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