Lebowski Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Found this VERY old picture of what is Tynecastle behind some tenements on a facebook page called 'old football stadia', well worth a like for some cracking nostalgia pics. Older jambos may be able to confirm but, as I've only been in the Roseburn im taking an educated guess this is the opposite side of the ground? It's from the Gorgie Rd end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 On 29/06/2017 at 16:31, resk said: The 93 Cup Final was Rangers v Aberdeen at Celtic Park. The Dons fans were in one of the ends, can't remember which one. There were loads of cheese and onion flavour Real McCoys getting given away for some reason. Aberdeen got the away end... what is now the Lisbon Lions stand. That was a large covered terrace and half the main stand, the now dead club got other half of main stand, the jungle and the home end..now the Jock Stein stand. No 50/50 split in those days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Just now, Lebowski said: It's from the Gorgie Rd end. Never been that end of Tynecastle but I know from watching on TV when I was young and old YouTube clips away fans got that end, why did they turn it round late 90's after redevelopment? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 9 minutes ago, Flybhoy said: Never been that end of Tynecastle but I know from watching on TV when I was young and old YouTube clips away fans got that end, why did they turn it round late 90's after redevelopment? Prossibly because it's slightly easier to keep the fans segregated on the way into the ground. Not much granted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 1 hour ago, Flybhoy said: Never been that end of Tynecastle but I know from watching on TV when I was young and old YouTube clips away fans got that end, why did they turn it round late 90's after redevelopment? Because that originally was the home end, nearest to the main road. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 It can't be that old a photo given there's floodlights, roof aerials and no tram-wires. I'm right that the Gorgie Stand was built after the Roseburn? Did they just move away fans in there for a few years then back to the Roseburn? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Whenever I went to Tynecastle before the new stands were built, away fans were always in the big open terrace at the Gorgie End. Home fans got the side with benches bolted onto terracing on the Wheatfield Side with a roof that curved round the corner to cover a wee bit of the Roseburn End. Are folk saying it used to be opposite ends about going further back? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 21 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: It can't be that old a photo given there's floodlights, roof aerials and no tram-wires. I'm right that the Gorgie Stand was built after the Roseburn? Did they just move away fans in there for a few years then back to the Roseburn? Good point about the tram wires. They used to joke that Hearts would never win the Scottish Cup until they lifted the tram lines in Gorgie Road. Trams were phased out in Edinburgh in the 1950s and the lines in Gorgie Road were lifted in 1955 or 56 - and Hearts did win the cup! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 2 hours ago, PauloPerth said: Whenever I went to Tynecastle before the new stands were built, away fans were always in the big open terrace at the Gorgie End. Home fans got the side with benches bolted onto terracing on the Wheatfield Side with a roof that curved round the corner to cover a wee bit of the Roseburn End. Are folk saying it used to be opposite ends about going further back? I started going to Tynecastle as an away fan in the 80's and it was always the Gorgie terracing in those days. I would guess before that was pre-segregation? I'm sure some of my older mates talk about being at the other end in 1970's... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 (edited) Pars fans in the late 80s early 90s got the Gorgie terracing and the Gorgie end of the Main Stand (although that stopped when the enclosure got those backless bucket seats and we got that instead of the tip-up seats in the stand above). The first time I was in the other end was for the Skol Cup semi-final v Airdrie in 1991, and I wasn't back at that end again until the stand was built at that end in about 1997(?). Edited July 3, 2017 by Salvo Montalbano Spelling 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 (edited) On 02/07/2017 at 00:02, Flybhoy said: Found this VERY old picture of what is Tynecastle behind some tenements on a facebook page called 'old football stadia', well worth a like for some cracking nostalgia pics. Older jambos may be able to confirm but, as I've only been in the Roseburn im taking an educated guess this is the opposite side of the ground? The Park is still there https://goo.gl/maps/QfgVE3BQwmn And I think that might well have been part of the old Tynecastle park where Hearts first moved to in 1881 before moving across the road At the time there were naysayers predicting that nobody would travel all the way out to Gorgie to watch football. So Aberdeen fans aren't experiencing anything new Edited July 3, 2017 by topcat(The most tip top) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 On 02/07/2017 at 13:44, HibeeJibee said: It can't be that old a photo given there's floodlights, roof aerials and no tram-wires. I'm right that the Gorgie Stand was built after the Roseburn? Did they just move away fans in there for a few years then back to the Roseburn? The lights went up in 1957. I occasionally forget how young most posters are. Being quite an auld c**t, I would be a toddler then. I remember the non-segregated days back in the 70s. Away fans would try and take the shed at the corner. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Ibrox 1980/81 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Easter Road, 1983 after the East terrace had been vastly reduced and before the roof went on. Jim Melrose is the Celtic scorer by the way, my god he was shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4mmy31 Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Ibrox 1980/81 Let's be honest, if they go bust again, that landscape may return [emoji12] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardest ned in glasgow Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 i love Cowdenbeath's outdoor pisser. It's always blowing a gail up there and I love standing having a piss at half time wae the steam off the piss of old guy to the left of me blowing in my face n the guy to the right of me having his piss blown all over my brothel creepers as he tries to piss. You leave there with more piss than you entered with. No doubt these toilets would be a hit in Germany, if "gentleman's interest" films are to be believed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forest_Fifer Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Ibrox 1980/81 Don't their supporters normally only demolish other team's grounds? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboyjones1976 Posted July 15, 2017 Author Share Posted July 15, 2017 On 29/06/2017 at 11:30, topcat(The most tip top) said: There's a similar LostEdinburgh project Their website is being rebuilt at time of writing http://www.lostedinburgh.com/ But they're also on FBhttps://www.facebook.com/lostedinburgh/ f**k! Look at that sign! It's like a western. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 A roofless West Stand/Rangers end of Hampden in the background as Celtic celebrate a goal v Aberdeen in the 1967 Scottish cup final Any of you oldies know when the roof went on there...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiejim Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 The 67 cup final was my first ever visit to Hampden. The west end was covered during the next season and was in use for the 68 final between Dunfermline and Hearts. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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