Old Maine Road photos thread

[I'm no cynic but...]

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I prefer the 1930s version. This view makes the place look like a dumping ground for containers.

 

[AJ71]

Scoreboard Working.....

 

[paulchapo]

Not sure if these have been posted, you can feel the atmosphere and menace.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Scoreboard Working.....

No way is that scoreboard working.

Clearly Photoshopped ;-)

 

[salford blue 62]

Not sure if these have been posted, you can feel the atmosphere and menace.

Brings back loads of happy memories them mate.
Climbed those steps many times with a couple of pint in my hands.
Happy days !

 

[xgorton]

Scoreboard Working.....

think that says Scrap Metal Merchants.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Not sure if these have been posted, you can feel the atmosphere and menace.

Before my time that, I started in the late eighties, but what I loved most when I first started going was the anticipation of how many would turn up on the day, todays Bluemoon seat counters had nothing on us trying to work out how many where in the ground & how many Swales would declare, that fencing in pic1 made me laugh, it’s like a tennis court

 

[paulchapo]

Before my time that, I started in the late eighties, but what I loved most when I first started going was the anticipation of how many would turn up on the day, todays Bluemoon seat counters had nothing on us trying to work out how many where in the ground & how many Swales would declare, that fencing in pic1 made me laugh, it’s like a tennis court

Yes it's additional fencing and I'd guess put there for more volatile games. I don't remember it at all.

 

[paulchapo]

A few more

 

[bernard o'silver]

A few more

First pic could be an album cover