glen quagmire
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Does anyone know where this name originated from, in regards to maine rd?
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Re: The north Stand
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Blue Tooth
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glen quagmire said:Does anyone know where this name originated from, in regards to maine rd?
Did it face north or was it at the North end of the ground?
Amigo
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Blue Tooth said:Did it face north?
Thats about it I do believe...
WidnesBlue23
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Hahahaha.
Well played GQ
Well played GQ
glen quagmire
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By using that logic, was the main stand facing a main rd?<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:47 pm --<br /><br />
Nice to see my work appreciated sir!!!!
WidnesBlue23 said:Hahahaha.
Well played GQ
Nice to see my work appreciated sir!!!!
Carver
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I always thought it faced towards Preston!
ouch!<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:53 pm --<br /><br />I've heard people call it the Hird-Brown, that was because of the name of the scoreboard manufacturers.
ouch!<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:53 pm --<br /><br />I've heard people call it the Hird-Brown, that was because of the name of the scoreboard manufacturers.
Blue Tooth
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glen quagmire said:By using that logic, was the main stand facing a main rd?
-- Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:47 pm --
WidnesBlue23 said:Hahahaha.
Well played GQ
Nice to see my work appreciated sir!!!!
It may have had it back to a Maine Road ;)
Edit: Hmmm..I see what you did there....waits for Platt Lane thread :(
gaudinho's stolen car
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Apparently the Platt Lane stand was named after our own David Platt's Great Grandfather married Elsie Lane of Booth Street, Sheffield. It was originally named the Platt/Lane Stand in honour of their union, but the slash was dropped in 1975.
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Was the main stand on Maine Road officially known as the "Main" Stand or the "Maine" Stand??
glen quagmire
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I heard that the platt lane stand was named after a local lad, Martin Platt, who did various community work and a lifelong blue, who was made extremly famous for his relationship with an alien.
Hamann Pineapple
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It's where a load of blokes from oop North armed only with Black Puddings and Whippets fought off the Arapahos and the Cheyenne Indians lead by Crazy Horse.
Bill
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glen quagmire said:Does anyone know where this name originated from, in regards to maine rd?
the builder was from clayton, north road to be precise.
Barcon
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Was anybody on here brought up in a household that could afford to sit in the Maine stand?
glen quagmire
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Barcon said:Was anybody on here brought up in a household that could afford to sit in the Maine stand?
Didn't want to mate, full of pipe smoking, tea drinking fuddy duddies! I was a kippax kid! I could afford my entrance money, half a pie and half a drink.
GrumpyFrog
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Barcon said:Was anybody on here brought up in a household that could afford to sit in the Maine stand?
Me ! Me ! Me !
Started in 1967.
Barcon
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glen quagmire said:Barcon said:Was anybody on here brought up in a household that could afford to sit in the Maine stand?
Didn't want to mate, full of pipe smoking, tea drinking fuddy duddies! I was a kippax kid! I could afford my entrance money, half a pie and half a drink.
I sat in the Maine stand once with my Dad (he must have been given a couple of freeebies) it was the Colin Bell comeback game. I was a Kippax kid myself, most of the time me and my mate would just go down and try to get in or sit up in the floodlights over by the North stand. Sat over in Platt lane next to the Kippax a few times as well.<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:53 pm --<br /><br />
GrumpyFrog said:Barcon said:Was anybody on here brought up in a household that could afford to sit in the Maine stand?
Me ! Me ! Me !
Started in 1967.
Around 68 for me mate (Kippax), was about five.
The North Stand was originally and officially called the Brass Monkey Stand due to the fact that there was no roof, later some wag started calling it the North Stand as it was said that standing there was like standing at the North Pole but of course calling it the North Pole Stand just sounded silly.
I don't think it has ever been called The north Stand though.
I don't think it has ever been called The north Stand though.
Didsbury Dave
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I started in the platt lane, moved round to the kippax and finished in the main stand.Barcon said:Was anybody on here brought up in a household that could afford to sit in the Maine stand?
H block was the heart and soul of Manchester city. I'm still surrounded by the same faces now
the old abbey
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talking of the north stand,anyone remember the terraced houses at the back where you could leave your pushiron in the back yard for a tanner,now whats the name of that bleedin street?