Turnstile at Maine Rd

[nmc]

If it is real Maine Rd nostalgia you want, drink a pint of flat Greenalls bitter and eat a meat and potato pie that is red hot at the crust and frozen in the middle.

i prefer a stale wagon wheel and a cone of chips.

 

[lazerblue]

Same guy used to do it every home game..ran at them and jumped over them ... always expected him to smash his head in on top of wall but he made his self smaller by curling up...weird but true

i found it easier to go under on your belly like a japanese sniper, much less fuss as well

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

Me and my Dad used to watch people vaulting the turnstiles and admire then for doing it. There wasn't much space and they always seemed to do it so gracefully, if I'd not had a season ticket I'd have been tempted to try it!! We'd regularly see 10+ do it and once in the ground they just melted away very quickly. It would be impossible to stop them. Mind, with some of the football we saw at MR, I wouldn't have wanted to pay for it either! :)

A friend who used to go to away games and used to find a queue with small women in and when the turnstiles clicked through, he'd "bump" into them and the pair of them would slip into the ground. I was amazed how anyone could do it, but again I've seen it done.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

We were that bad at Maine Road, I used to vault the turnstile's to get out.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

If it is real Maine Rd nostalgia you want, drink a pint of flat Greenalls bitter and eat a meat and potato pie that is red hot at the crust and frozen in the middle.

Nothing brings back the memories of the back of the Kippax as much as the smell of stale piss.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Nothing brings back the memories of the back of the Kippax as much as the smell of stale piss.

When the new Kippax was built the inside bogs were the height of luxury compared to the ones on the external wall, which were still in use.
Must have been like when people started having inside toilets instead of having to use a freezing outhouse.

 

[crazyg]

When the new Kippax was built the inside bogs were the height of luxury compared to the ones on the external wall, which were still in use.
Must have been like when people started having inside toilets instead of having to use a freezing outhouse.

The first house I lived in with an indoor toilet was in 1962.
I now have a house with a toilet for everyone who lives here.

I live on my own!

 

[Gary James]

Hi Gary,

Sorry for the bump but I was curious about something I bought online when I read your post. I saw a turnstile piece online over summer and didn't realise some of the turnstiles went missing. I don't honestly know if this is a convincing replica, or whether it has even been scrapped down from one of the stolen turnstiles to make it easier to sell.View attachment 5042

This looks like it’s an original piece of metalwork but could be from one of many hundreds (possibly thousands) of turnstiles they installed at football/cricket grounds, racecourse, swimming baths, piers, Blackpool pleasure beach/similar, cinemas etc. over the years. It is marked as being produced at Irlam - that suggests it was pre 1904 as later ones were marked Salford - so is from an early turnstile but impossible to say whether it’s one of the Hyde Rd turnstiles. I’d be surprised if someone has taken it from the turnstile as the turnstiles would be worth more complete, but it could easily be from one scrapped by someone.

Hi Gary,

Sorry for the bump but I was curious about something I bought online when I read your post. I saw a turnstile piece online over summer and didn't realise some of the turnstiles went missing. I don't honestly know if this is a convincing replica, or whether it has even been scrapped down from one of the stolen turnstiles to make it easier to sell.View attachment 5042

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

This looks like it’s an original piece of metalwork but could be from one of many hundreds (possibly thousands) of turnstiles they installed at football/cricket grounds, racecourse, swimming baths, piers, Blackpool pleasure beach/similar, cinemas etc. over the years. It is marked as being produced at Irlam - that suggests it was pre 1904 as later ones were marked Salford - so is from an early turnstile but impossible to say whether it’s one of the Hyde Rd turnstiles. I’d be surprised if someone has taken it from the turnstile as the turnstiles would be worth more complete, but it could easily be from one scrapped by someone.

Cheers for your reply - I suppose that i'll never be able to truly know in that case! I'll piss myself if it turned out to be from somewhere really mundane.