What's underneath the Etihad Stadium?

[mekonmcfc]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

most ridiculous thread of all time

during the commonwealth games, the concourse was used as a warm up area, you may be confused with that

the players warm up area are about the size of 2 squash courts.

so no full size pitch underground that would be stupid !!!!

 

[Phleeper]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

There were rumours that some of the contractors buried Rags shirts under it, but that's neve been confirmed.

 

[Anonymous]

Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

Last person who tried a plan like that in a tunnel under a building got caught and ended up having a day in November named after him.

Was it that Fred Bonfire-Knight?

 

[blackley macca]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

There were rumours that some of the contractors buried Rags shirts under it, but that's neve been confirmed.

I've seen pictures it was lads working for Hayden Youngs.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

And here's an article about the remedial work that took place around the stadium last year

AN £8m project to prepare a huge site next to the City of Manchester Stadium for potential regeneration has just been completed.Work on the 17-acre site, which contained two disused mine shafts used on the former Bradford Colliery site, has taken six months to complete. It involved capping the kilometre-deep shafts and encasing them in a 2m-thick, 22m-deep reinforced concrete structure.

Take a look at this link

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thisiseast.com/tag/local-history/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thisiseast.com/tag/local-history/</a>

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

Yep .. i was born and raised in Bradford , Manchester , during the 'late 50's/60's , and can confirm that the pit (Bradford Colliery) once stood there loud and proud ... as did nearby Johnsons wire-works.

As local kids we used to call the isolated area between the gasometer and the wire-works 'no-mans' land ... it was just a huge barren wasteland , with the odd disused factory bordering it ..... there were a number of small pubs in the immediate 'Forge Lane' area , which is now Alan Turing Way ... i'm struggling to recall their names for certain , but i'm pretty sure that one was named 'the Shakespeare' , and another i think was probably named 'the United'!

There was a cinema on Ashton New Road opposite what is now the ground ... and a couple of scrapyards , and my old primary school ,on land which is now becoame the site for Asda.

 

[mekonmcfc]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Colliery" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Colliery</a>

 

[The Pink Panther]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

Yep .. i was born and raised in Bradford , Manchester , during the 'late 50's/60's , and can confirm that the pit (Bradford Colliery) once stood there loud and proud ... as did nearby Johnsons wire-works.

As local kids we used to call the isolated area between the gasometer and the wire-works 'no-mans' land ... it was just a huge barren wasteland , with the odd disused factory bordering it ..... there were a number of small pubs in the immediate 'Forge Lane' area , which is now Alan Turing Way ... i'm struggling to recall their names for certain , but i'm pretty sure that one was named 'the Shakespeare' , and another i think was probably named 'the United'!

There was a cinema on Ashton New Road opposite what is now the ground ... and a couple of scrapyards , and my old primary school ,on land which is now becoame the site for Asda.

 

[Gary James]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

there were a number of small pubs in the immediate 'Forge Lane' area , which is now Alan Turing Way ... i'm struggling to recall their names for certain , but i'm pretty sure that one was named 'the Shakespeare' , and another i think was probably named 'the United'!

It was The United and it was named after MUFC (from their time at Bank Street). A photo of it appears in my book "Manchester A Football History" - it was positioned roughly where the traffic lights are on the Asda corner.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Re: Whats underneath the etihad stadium?

There were rumours that some of the contractors buried Rags shirts under it, but that's neve been confirmed.

Apart from being juxtaposed with my arse, underground is the best place for a Rag shirt, preferably with the Rag still inside it!