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As you approach Piccadilly, the containers / former ground are on the right
Hyde Road Stadium
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Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Stumbled across this image from 1906/1907. Is actually a Liverpool website but has some great reports/articles on Hyde Road and City
Hyde Road – Manchester City F.C. football ground
Saturday, April 13 – 1907 (Yorkshire Evening Post, 13-04-1907)playupliverpool.com
Manchester City to build a new stadium
Wednesday, June 10 – 1914 Manchester, which already possesses one of the finest football enclosures in the country, is to have another and even larger ground, the Manchester City Club having just c…
Hyde Road a dismal hole
December 10, 1915 Hyde Park we know, but Hyde Road Park is a park of another colour. It is a dismal hole, and the half finished stands seem to mock the spectators. The draughts are sharp enough to …
Dead interesting. Some dippers who think we were invented in Abu Dhabi would do well to take a look at those articles.
That first piece from the Yorkshire Evening Post: don't know if that's supposed to be an artist's representation of the ground, but by God it looks like a place that the wind would whistle through on a freezing Mancunian Saturday afternoon in January.
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Used to cross there every night from work.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Wow! The picture in the top link looks Ike straight out of the King Of The Kippax drawings of grounds. Amazing detail and the Boiler Works is clearly behind the boys stand.Stumbled across this image from 1906/1907. Is actually a Liverpool website but has some great reports/articles on Hyde Road and City
Hyde Road – Manchester City F.C. football ground
Saturday, April 13 – 1907 (Yorkshire Evening Post, 13-04-1907)
Manchester City to build a new stadium
Wednesday, June 10 – 1914 Manchester, which already possesses one of the finest football enclosures in the country, is to have another and even larger ground, the Manchester City Club having just c…
Hyde Road a dismal hole
December 10, 1915 Hyde Park we know, but Hyde Road Park is a park of another colour. It is a dismal hole, and the half finished stands seem to mock the spectators. The draughts are sharp enough to …
Very interesting in the 2nd link - from 1914 - where it states City had bought a plot of land for a new ground. This was 6 years before the fire which prompted the urgent need to search for a new site.
I wonder what happened to the land bought in 1914?
Mad Eyed Screamer
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I had always assumed it was a disued station but apparently not!
Ardwick railway station in Ardwick, Manchester, England, is about one mile (1.5 km) south-east of Manchester Piccadilly, in an industrial area of east Manchester. Plans to close the station permanently were scrapped in 2006 due to increasing activity in the area. The station has just one train in each direction calling on Monday to Friday in the winter 2019–20 timetable. These trains have additionally called at the station on Saturdays from May 2018.
Love the way that football fans never change - Hyde Road is a dismal hole and City are rubbish which probably means Liverpool will lose to them! How often we have thought much the same.
the drawing is great - shows the way it was a piecemeal collection of stands squeezed in wherever they can. No wonder they are exploring a new ground in a variety of places where they have space to build a state of the art modern stadium - it wasn't going to happen at Hyde Road
the drawing is great - shows the way it was a piecemeal collection of stands squeezed in wherever they can. No wonder they are exploring a new ground in a variety of places where they have space to build a state of the art modern stadium - it wasn't going to happen at Hyde Road
Mad Eyed Screamer
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The drawing doesn't highlight the roof on the picture - unless it is on the stand behind the artists view point (or it was replaced)
ColinBellsjockstrap
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Click on watch on You tube:-
Gary James
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Arches.
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The top image is from c.1907 and the multispan roofs were erected in 1910 on 3 sides of the ground. City then boasted Hyde Rd had covered accommodation for 35,000 in a 40,000 stadium. New Old Trafford had cover for about 10,000 at that time.
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I think they call them Parliamentary Trains. I read an article on Denton and Reddish South stations a few years ago, that seem to be in a similar position.
Apparently the red tape to officially shut down a train station is such a long drawn out and expensive procedure, that they find it easier to just have one train a day or even a week stop there and then it’s classed as a working station and save all the hassle of shutting it down.
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What a great and interesting thread this is. I do have some indirect "connections" to the stadium but at the time I wasn't aware of its existence (hanging my head in shame!). I had an uncle, who we visited many times, who lived in the street opposite The Hyde Road Pub until the clearance. Although I lived in Wythenshawe at the time, I went to St. Gregory's in Ardwick from 1961 - 1967. I also used to go to Speedway at Belle Vue on a regular basis in the 1970s. I would have loved to have known about the stadium all those years ago.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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That surprises me somewhat. The Beeching Report and the legislation that followed closed literally hundreds of miles of track, and the stations that went with them, naturally, at one fell swoop. I remember it well.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Had a quick look at the website for the Armitage CofE primary school (which is so very close to the old stadium). Looks like a rather dynamic school, in fact. Got a very good Ofsted rating (for what that's worth…)
Still nobody from round there who's looked at this thread who went there? Or nobody that you might know?
It'll never happen, but I was thinking that as part of City's work in the community, it would be brilliant for someone who knows what they're talking about (looking at you, Gary! The club would pay you for your time, obviously — says I, breezily) to go along with, say, one of the players — Erling, to put stars in their eyes — to give the kids a talk about the Hyde Road Stadium that was so close.
Still nobody from round there who's looked at this thread who went there? Or nobody that you might know?
It'll never happen, but I was thinking that as part of City's work in the community, it would be brilliant for someone who knows what they're talking about (looking at you, Gary! The club would pay you for your time, obviously — says I, breezily) to go along with, say, one of the players — Erling, to put stars in their eyes — to give the kids a talk about the Hyde Road Stadium that was so close.
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Charlie chaplin went to armitage school..
Gary James
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I did some talks to the Academy a decade ago and took them on a tour of West Gorton, showing them the site of St Mark’s and the first pitch. I’m not employed by City otherwise I suppose that Armitage visit may have been a possibility
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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It's a great idea. When you look at the know-how that went into the production of the drone visit to various parts of the stadium a couple of seasons back, with all the sound effects (and to be clear, I thought that was brilliant), you'd think they've now got people who are very savvy about the new media for whom such a thing would be a piece of cake. Probably not very expensive (although I hold my hands up straight away to admit I know nothing about costing in such cases) and it would a fine way of respecting City's long and rich “ ’istree”.
We've now got quite a lot of new young fans for whom Maine Road is just a legend (that the FOCs rabbit on about…)
As Hyde Road is for me.
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Mad Eyed Screamer
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Is this programme (or similar) still on?
If yes, I think it would be worth another letter, given this would be the last chance to explore the site before the housing development goes up.
Manchester Uni has an archeological studies course. Maybe tip them off too?
Right I have been down today as I couldn’t go after the match due to time..
However in my view it looks like they have demolished the buildings after the viaduct and are planning on do work in that area.
Photos enclosed with this info which is quite sad really.
However in my view it looks like they have demolished the buildings after the viaduct and are planning on do work in that area.
Photos enclosed with this info which is quite sad really.