Old Maine Road photos thread

[Gazza]

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I wonder if that guy's passed his driving test yet.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I wonder who the cladding firm was that gave Swales a backhander?

Much as I love to attribute blame to Swales wherever possible, didn’t that cladding go up when Lee was in charge?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

this really is a thing of beauty
nearly 100 years ago

There’s another photo that’s appeared on this thread that is similarly airborne, but that was on a match day and there were plenty of cars in the car park and the surrounding streets. What’s so striking about this photo is the almost complete absence of cars (parked or driving) on the streets around Maine Road - although this one may have been taken a few years earlier tbf.

My dad lived in Hulme/Moss Side in the ‘30s and ‘40s (when he wasn’t an evacuee) and I know he’s said to me previously that the only people near where he lived who had a car were the two guys that owned the local cinema and chippy.

Drive down pretty much any terraced street now and you’ll struggle to find a parking spot!

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

this really is a thing of beauty
nearly 100 years ago

What was the building behind the Kippax at the back if the car park. I don't remember there being anything there?

 

[spiny]

this really is a thing of beauty
nearly 100 years ago

I am struck by the symmetry of the ground that grew into the hotch potch that many of us knew. It clearly shows the outer walls where you entered through the turnstyles. Open toilets were also located by the inside walls. In those days "boys" went through different turnstyles from adults so you had to meet up inside amongst the crowd if with your dad.

The site confines really did not lend itself to development into a modern stadium. Moving to the Etihad is the best thing that could've happened to City and us supporters but this thread is a nice bit of nostalgia for us FOC's.

 

[.db.]

What was the building behind the Kippax at the back if the car park. I don't remember there being anything there?

I think that was called St Edward’s Primary School and there was a church there n’all at one point. Don’t know when it all ceased to be.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Much as I love to attribute blame to Swales wherever possible, didn’t that cladding go up when Lee was in charge?

I remember Swales doing an interview in the mid 90's when he was really under pressure to do the decent thing and fck off. I think he said something like "we've built a beautiful stadium here". And I think he genuinely believed it. The cladding was up then.
I'm not defending Franny over the rebuild of the Kippax which was maybe worse than the Platt Lane.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

What was the building behind the Kippax at the back if the car park. I don't remember there being anything there?

its a school and I think the stand was called the "Popular Side" back then as my gran & grandad knew it as that, I presume it became the "Kippax" when the roof was put on?
Only realised this morning my mum was born just around the corner in Caythorp street :-)

 

[bladdered]

 

[eric pode of croydon]

Just found this which contains some good memories and photos. I see that @GaryJames contributed too

Kippax | Jimmy Sirrel's Lovechild

Playing down at Maine Road It’s impossible to separate Maine Road from Moss Side, in history or in memory. The story of one is the story of the other. That was not always a positive thing…

jimmysirrelslovechild.co.uk

Brilliant article and brilliant photo.

 

[Since 76]

Oh wow I'm on a roll here complaining.....!

But that is not the last day of the old kippax, I should know, cos I took the photo!!!!!!

It was the swales out sit down demo in Sept 1993 (after the QPR game.iirc)

I let Gary James use it for his Farewell to Maine road book and it got used in programmes in 2002/03 to advertise his book.


But I took it, sit down swales out demo, Sept 1993.

Used to take my camera everywhere, inc all matches. The days before everyone did!



(Though it's nice to hear that some from the forum are on the photo!)

That's me told :)

 

[1964]

What was the building behind the Kippax at the back if the car park. I don't remember there being anything there?

school

 

[happy]

God I miss Maine Road.

 

[plattlanebenches]

Brilliant article and brilliant photo.
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Shit photo it’s full of rags

 

[maccieblue]

I remember Swales doing an interview in the mid 90's when he was really under pressure to do the decent thing and fck off. I think he said something like "we've built a beautiful stadium here". And I think he genuinely believed it. The cladding was up then.
I'm not defending Franny over the rebuild of the Kippax which was maybe worse than the Platt Lane.

The new kippax wasn't too bad,the platt lane rebuild was awful would have been better putting new seats in the old platt lane

 

[beehive_bob]

Brilliant article and brilliant photo.
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Just a shame the photo is full of rags ;)

 

[i kne albert davy]

The new kippax wasn't too bad,the platt lane rebuild was awful would have been better putting new seats in the old platt lane

New Kippax stand was pretty good Didn't match anywhere else in the ground but there again nowt did. You could move from one level to another, had mates who sat on level two we just use to walk up and have a beer with them pre match.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The new kippax wasn't too bad,the platt lane rebuild was awful would have been better putting new seats in the old platt lane

The whole stadium redevelopment project completely lacked ambition. A missed opportunity. Maine Road was one of the great English stadiums for half a decade, and then look where it ended up. A husk of its previous self.

It was a pitiful sight at the end, given where it was a generation before. The differences between 1978 and 2003 are stark.

 

[Citizen Green]

The whole stadium redevelopment project completely lacked ambition. A missed opportunity. Maine Road was one of the great English stadiums for half a decade, and then look where it ended up. A husk of its previous self.

It was a pitiful sight at the end, given where it was a generation before. The differences between 1978 and 2003 are stark.

Quite like the club itself… now only if there was a common denominator covering most of this timeframe to explain it…

 

[i kne albert davy]

The whole stadium redevelopment project completely lacked ambition. A missed opportunity. Maine Road was one of the great English stadiums for half a decade, and then look where it ended up. A husk of its previous self.

It was a pitiful sight at the end, given where it was a generation before. The differences between 1978 and 2003 are stark.

Think I remember in programme must have been late 70s or early 80s a design of the stadium where all the stands matched the Main stand which looked stunning for the time.