Help re. old photos of Easter Rd.

[linlithgowhibbie]

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Gawd Brian you know how to make an Auld fart feel……well, Auld.

Your ‘old’ pics of Easter Road……..which I’m assuming were taken by you, would have been taken about 20 years after I departed!

Hi Fred,

Yeah, knowing the groundsman and Chairman and a Director had some fringe benefits on non matchdays!

[Keith_M]

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...would have been taken about 20 years after I departed!

A message from beyond the grave?

😲

[Forza Fred]

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A message from beyond the grave?

😲

Never doubt my mystical powers

[Carheenlea]

Terracing in its full glory.

No amount of “safe standing” provision can ever come close to replicating the feel for the terraces of the past.

[Carheenlea]

An ariel image from 1949

[greenlex]

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An ariel image from 1949

Anyone know what the building that is standing where the industrial units are now on St Clair street is ? Looks like a school of sorts.

[Bridge hibs]

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Anyone know what the building that is standing where the industrial units are now on St Clair street is ? Looks like a school of sorts.

It was St Anns Maltings

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[greenlex]

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It was St Anns Maltings

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Looks more like a prison close up.

[Bridge hibs]

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Looks more like a prison close up.

St Ann's Maltings was demolished in 1969, this photograph being taken near the start of the process. By 1979 drum malting and saladin malting had ousted the labour-intensive floor malting

Floor malting would have been absolute ball breaking so a few who didnt like very hard graft maybe would have preferred a wee spell in the tin pail instead 😄

[HIBERNIAN-0762]

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Terracing in its full glory.

No amount of “safe standing” provision can ever come close to replicating the feel for the terraces of the past.

Alan Gordon against the stickies 💚👍

[Keith_M]

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Never doubt my mystical powers

[linlithgowhibbie]

View from the old tunnel leading up to the pitch, not too glamerous! IMG_20210725_120425.jpg

[BILLYHIBS]

Another couple of upgrades to the above:

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[Carheenlea]

The early 90’s decadence of The Weir Toyota sponsors lounge.

[Carheenlea]

[Carheenlea]

For years the old turnstiles and entrance within Easter Road were derelict and really just an unsightly mess.

[linlithgowhibbie]

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The early 90’s decadence of The Weir Toyota sponsors lounge.

Thats a beauty, I never had the honour of visiting there!

[linlithgowhibbie]

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For years the old turnstiles and entrance within Easter Road were derelict and really just an unsightly mess.

Any Idea how many turnstyles were there for the giant East Terrace,? I remember about 10 on Hawkhill avenue and maybe the same or more from inside the car park.

[BSEJVT]

Great photos and brings back many happy memories.

All I will say on the relative merits of the old v new ER is that one man's dump is another man's proper football ground!

[fiolex1]

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An ariel image from 1949

I served my time at Millers Foundry which is bottom left in this photo

[The Harp]

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For years the old turnstiles and entrance within Easter Road were derelict and really just an unsightly mess.

I wish there were more old pics of ER to jog my memory. Although I've been a regular attender since the late 50s, my recollection of turnstiles, particularly at the back of the east terracing isn't great.

[gbhibby]

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I wish there were more old pics of ER to jog my memory. Although I've been a regular attender since the late 50s, my recollection of turnstiles, particularly at the back of the east terracing isn't great.

When the East terracing was reduced did they not use the earth and other waste to fill in the railway line running at the back of the East?

[linlithgowhibbie]

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When the East terracing was reduced did they not use the earth and other waste to fill in the railway line running at the back of the East?

Yip they did

[Carheenlea]

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Any Idea how many turnstyles were there for the giant East Terrace,? I remember about 10 on Hawkhill avenue and maybe the same or more from inside the car park.

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I wish there were more old pics of ER to jog my memory. Although I've been a regular attender since the late 50s, my recollection of turnstiles, particularly at the back of the east terracing isn't great.

Not quite as clear on this shared image, but on a sharper file I counted 8 old turnstiles on Hawkhill Avenue along with the 6 or 7 that were in use for the east at that time. Not really clear how many there were in the car park side. Gives an idea of the scale of the site.

[Carheenlea]

Did anyone ever make use of the Easter Road Park Halt station on a match day?

[linlithgowhibbie]

Although I didn't use the station my pals and me used to walk up that line on a regular basis before games to get to the ground.

When you see the size of the ground we used to own you can understand why Sir Tom Farmer went tonto when Edinburgh Council refused planning permission for houses/flats and only gave planning permission for industrial use thereby tremendously reducing its value.

Once it was sold for the reduced amount they then changed their mind and allowed housing. This cost Sir Tom/Hibs millions that could have been used to invest in the ground and players.

[gbhibby]

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Did anyone ever make use of the Easter Road Park Halt station on a match day?

The Edinburgh transport network was so much better then than it is today.

[gbhibby]

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Although I didn't use the station my pals and me used to walk up that line on a regular basis before games to get to the ground.

When you see the size of the ground we used to own you can understand why Sir Tom Farmer went tonto when Edinburgh Council refused planning permission for houses/flats and only gave planning permission for industrial use thereby tremendously reducing its value.

Once it was sold for the reduced amount they then changed their mind and allowed housing. This cost Sir Tom/Hibs millions that could have been used to invest in the ground and players.

Did STF not want to buy another track of land and offered more than the price it was sold to Morrisons the builders.

[linlithgowhibbie]

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Did STF not want to buy another track of land and offered more than the price it was sold to Morrisons the builders.

Not aware of that but we owned the whole of the "Lochend Butterfly" area which was the huge area of land that is now the high flats behind the east stan.

Council was full of Jambo twats at the time and Sir Tom was definately not amused at them.