Easter Road, Why ?

***offshorehibby*** · 27-01-2014 08:44 PM

Thought i new most things Hibs but a wee mate fi Elgin asked why is Easter Road Stadium called Easter Road when it's several hundred yards from ER.

**~~Gustavo Fring~~** · 27-01-2014 08:48 PM

sounds better than albion place stadium

**Waxy** · 27-01-2014 08:50 PM

Could be a throwback to the first Easter road ground which was just yards from Easter road way back around 1880 to 1890? Other than that, dunno.

**~~Inch Hibs~~** · 27-01-2014 08:52 PM

It's nothing to do with the street but the reserection of Jesus Christ - that's how we roll!

***erin go bragh*** · 27-01-2014 08:55 PM

One for the historians .( not me ) Was our original stadium not right next to Easter road on Bothwell street( bridge of doom . Lol) . I know we moved to our present stadium on the 23-2-1893 we opened it playing Clyde .

Ggtth

***lapsedhibee*** · 27-01-2014 08:57 PM

Hibs copied Arsenal's white sleeves but copied the ground-naming of Tottingham, whose ground is quite a bit away from White Hart Lane.

**Wighty76** · 27-01-2014 08:57 PM

From wiki - The stadium is named after the Easter Road some 300 metres to its west. The road is not named after Easter the festival, but Easter the compass direction, as evidenced in maps by its counterpart Wester Road (now Bonnington Road). It was the haunt of highwaymen before the area was developed. In April 1604 James Hardie of Bounmylnerig was found guilty of robbing Jacques de la Berge, a Fleming, of his gold and silver on the moor in this location. He was hanged at the Mercat Cross on the Royal Mile.

***offshorehibby*** · 27-01-2014 08:58 PM

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Could be a throwback to the first Easter road ground which was just yards from Easter road way back around 1880 to 1890? Other than that, dunno.

I know the original ground was just off Boswell Street and we also played at Powderhall.

**Waxy** · 27-01-2014 09:05 PM

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I know the original ground was just off Boswell Street and we also played at Powderhall.

Dont think we played at boswell st mate. We've never played near Granton. Though i think we trained at wardie which is just along the road.our first ground was bothwell street. The road between the bridge and before it turns is around where the halfway line was.

**Glory Lurker** · 27-01-2014 09:05 PM

I think I saw on an old map that the stadium (possibly in its original location) was in situ before the various streets around it. There was road running from Easter Road across to the stadium. Maybe it was called Easter Road because at that time there were no other streets to name it after?

**CB_NO3** · 27-01-2014 09:08 PM

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Dont think we played at boswell st mate. We've never played near Granton. Though i think we trained at wardie which is just along the road.our first ground was bothwell street. The road between the bridge and before it turns is around where the halfway line was.

Defo played on Logie Green Road near Powderhall at some point. Dont know who belonged there.

**portycabbage** · 27-01-2014 09:10 PM

http://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?2...riginal-ground

Haven't looked in detail but some stuff on Hibernian Park here.

**Waxy** · 27-01-2014 09:13 PM

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Defo played on Logie Green Road near Powderhall at some point. Dont know who belonged there.

St Bernards had a gound on logie green road. Before they moved back to the gymnasium across at eyre place at the begining of the last century. Flippin eck i feel around 150 years old

**~~Gustavo Fring~~** · 27-01-2014 09:32 PM

the original stadium on bothwell street was called hibernian park was it no

***Viva_Palmeiras*** · 27-01-2014 09:48 PM

It's Eastern road according to the twonk on the Beeb news channel yesterday - FAIL !

**~~Peevemor~~** · 27-01-2014 09:58 PM

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I think I saw on an old map that the stadium (possibly in its original location) was in situ before the various streets around it. There was road running from Easter Road across to the stadium. Maybe it was called Easter Road because at that time there were no other streets to name it after?

That's, what I've always thought.

**portycabbage** · 27-01-2014 10:57 PM

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I think I saw on an old map that the stadium (possibly in its original location) was in situ before the various streets around it. There was road running from Easter Road across to the stadium. Maybe it was called Easter Road because at that time there were no other streets to name it after?

This is from the old thread (link previous post), shows old ground where Bothwell St now is. Current ground would be where it says "Edinburgh Artillery", not much built then.
http://www.hibs.net/attachment.php?a...1&d=1356962941

**vahibbie** · 28-01-2014 12:16 AM

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Defo played on Logie Green Road near Powderhall at some point. Dont know who belonged there.

We played in a Cup final there against Hearts many moons ago. Don't think we played there on a regular basis.

And yes, we lost

3-2 I believe. Probably a poor referee.

**JohnStephens91** · 28-01-2014 12:25 AM

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We played in a Cup final there against Hearts many moons ago. Don't think we played there on a regular basis.

And yes, we lost

3-2 I believe. Probably a poor referee.

It was 3-1, sadly

**--------** · 28-01-2014 04:21 PM

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From wiki - The stadium is named after the Easter Road some 300 metres to its west. The road is not named after Easter the festival, but Easter the compass direction, as evidenced in maps by its counterpart Wester Road (now Bonnington Road). It was the haunt of highwaymen before the area was developed. In April 1604 James Hardie of Bounmylnerig was found guilty of robbing Jacques de la Berge, a Fleming, of his gold and silver on the moor in this location. He was hanged at the Mercat Cross on the Royal Mile.

So Rod Petrie's simply maintaining a long-standing tradition, then?

**ekhibee** · 28-01-2014 08:14 PM

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From wiki - The stadium is named after the Easter Road some 300 metres to its west. The road is not named after Easter the festival, but Easter the compass direction, as evidenced in maps by its counterpart Wester Road (now Bonnington Road). It was the haunt of highwaymen before the area was developed. In April 1604 James Hardie of Bounmylnerig was found guilty of robbing Jacques de la Berge, a Fleming, of his gold and silver on the moor in this location. He was hanged at the Mercat Cross on the Royal Mile.

Hmm, does that mean Broughton Road and Eyre Place were also Wester Road I wonder? Or is one older than the other two?They're all basically the same road, along with Henderson Row and Hamilton Place which are further continuations of the same road. Interesting bit of info all the same.

***Jonnyboy*** · 28-01-2014 08:17 PM

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Hmm, does that mean Broughton Road and Eyre Place were also Wester Road I wonder? Or is one older than the other two?They're all basically the same road, along with Henderson Row and Hamilton Place which are further continuations of the same road. Interesting bit of info all the same.

You might enjoy checking out this site ek

http://www.edinburgh.org.uk/STREETS/part1/e.htm

**ekhibee** · 28-01-2014 08:37 PM

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You might enjoy checking out this site ek

http://www.edinburgh.org.uk/STREETS/part1/e.htm

what a fascinating website jb! So the 'Wester Road' (according to an anonymous source) began at what is now the Old Toll Bar?

***Jonnyboy*** · 28-01-2014 08:40 PM

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what a fascinating website jb! So the 'Wester Road' (according to an anonymous source) began at what is now the Old Toll Bar?

If the source is correct, aye!

***greenginger*** · 28-01-2014 08:49 PM

I've never heard of a Wester Road to Leith.

Easter Road ( the street ) got its name because it was East of Leith Walk, the main route from Edinburgh to Leith

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom...FFFFFFFFFFFFFF

***Bishop Hibee*** · 28-01-2014 09:58 PM

Easter Rd is marked as Eastern Road on maps I've seen from the 1870's. As has been said previously, their were no streets of note around the ground when Hibs moved there, thus the name.

***wookie70*** · 28-01-2014 10:30 PM

If you look on http://www.old-maps.co.uk and search EH7 5QG you can see the old maps of the ground going way back. Looks like Easter Road was the nearest street to the ground. Leith Athletics ground was bigger than Easter Road and there was a cricket ground right next to the ground at one point.