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Broken Gnome
16-03-2013, 10:47 PM
Know there's a good few threads asking for pictures of Easter Road as it used to be - a guy on Twitter that posts lots of old-style grounds before renovation has just posted a good few from the 1980s/1990s.

Links all here https://twitter.com/Groundtastic

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgu3ozCUAAtpzq.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgvt0RCYAAi8qr.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgx2nYCUAAxJ0b.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgzZ9UCIAEpao5.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgx_GrCEAA0oVX.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgxeP-CEAEA_sr.jpg:large

Broken Gnome
16-03-2013, 10:58 PM
Few more, courtesy of @jj_bruce.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgxO9ZCQAAEiKN.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgxTcWCcAEtdok.jpg:large

green glory
16-03-2013, 11:01 PM
Few more, courtesy of @jj_bruce.



My pleasure. :-)

Broken Gnome
16-03-2013, 11:05 PM
My pleasure. :-)

Figured that would be someone on here so thought best give proper credit. :greengrin

The ones he posted are slightly lacking in that his photographer completely overlooked the most notable part of the ground...

Lofarl
16-03-2013, 11:14 PM
To think we planned to have 98,000. Madness. By god that would have been great.

StevesFamau5
16-03-2013, 11:27 PM
Some incredible shots there. It made me smile as I remember being 7/8 years old watching hibs in that old west stand eating hibs green popcorn (soooo many e numbers haha).

Cheers for the reminder :)

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Bristolhibby
17-03-2013, 07:17 AM
Some brilliant ones on this guys Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatcher/sets/72157602269717720/

J

spike220
17-03-2013, 08:22 AM
Some brilliant ones on this guys Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatcher/sets/72157602269717720/

J

Just spent an hour going through these, some lovely pics and reminds me of our recent history!

GGTTH

GlenrothesHibee
17-03-2013, 08:39 AM
Great viewing. The old East Terracing would have been a sight to behold when jam packed :flag:

Ray_
17-03-2013, 10:09 AM
[QUOTE=RicheyWhite;3539192]Few more, courtesy of @jj_bruce.



Thanks for posting the link, https://twitter.com/Groundtastic great memories, not only ER, also the front page photo, "Clapton Football Club", the ground is in Upton lane, Forest gate. I played there once in the eighties, our game was delayed for almost two hours, while the first game to be played there, a cup tie, ran overtime. We waited for our own game in the stadium's [for want of a better word], club room.

By the time we got on the pitch that Sunday morning, we were all half cut, mostly from the previous evening's activities. With two minutes left the Ref abandoned the game because one of our players refused to leave the pitch, after getting a second yellow, we were 5-1 up at the time! :greengrin

The Spotted Dog was a pub/restaurant next to the ground that was very popular with Eastenders during the 70's & 80's.

http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/WestHam/spotdog.shtml

http://www.newhamstory.com/node/479

hibby rae
17-03-2013, 11:03 AM
Know there's a good few threads asking for pictures of Easter Road as it used to be - a guy on Twitter that posts lots of old-style grounds before renovation has just posted a good few from the 1980s/1990s.

Links all here https://twitter.com/Groundtastic

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgu3ozCUAAtpzq.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgvt0RCYAAi8qr.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgx2nYCUAAxJ0b.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgzZ9UCIAEpao5.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgx_GrCEAA0oVX.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgxeP-CEAEA_sr.jpg:large

Alright Richey? What year would the plans for the 'future' stadium be from?

KWJ
17-03-2013, 12:11 PM
My pleasure. :-)

Some cracking pics there and this one caught my eye the most. Reading the comments I see I'm not the only one. Any chance of being able to have a copy of it to use as a wallpaper with a promise of it being personal use only (I may show it off a little!)?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatcher/5742448217/in/set-72157602269717720/

I hope you're still snapping!

FranckSuzy
17-03-2013, 01:11 PM
Brilliant photos! Brought back many a memory (good and bad :greengrin) of supporting the famous Edinburgh Hibees. :top marks

Waxy
20-11-2014, 06:31 PM
Let us remember, the cooshed.

Bostonhibby
20-11-2014, 07:03 PM
Some great trips down memory lane here :thumbsup:

Heres a stadium shot from 1950 new years day, Gordon Smith scoring the opening goal, the huge grey hill in the background is a capacity east terracing - who needs fancy seats and a roof?

Bobby's Cinema
20-11-2014, 07:47 PM
Are there any of the walk up to the old east, before I came to know it with the roof on? I would love to see that

CraigHibee
20-11-2014, 08:13 PM
Some cracking pics there and this one caught my eye the most. Reading the comments I see I'm not the only one. Any chance of being able to have a copy of it to use as a wallpaper with a promise of it being personal use only (I may show it off a little!)?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatcher/5742448217/in/set-72157602269717720/

I hope you're still snapping!

some cracking pictures there! love them :greengrin

Kaiser_Sauzee
20-11-2014, 10:12 PM
http://youtu.be/XPSvDvSFpQ8

frazeHFC
20-11-2014, 11:04 PM
Few more, courtesy of @jj_bruce.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgxO9ZCQAAEiKN.jpg:large





:hilarious :thumbsup:

Bostonhibby
20-11-2014, 11:08 PM
:hilarious :thumbsup:

I am sure I remember those ducks, one of them used to spend the whole time booing Hibs players. I think they used to go to away games together as well. Always bevvied and up for a fight - we never had to worry about seagulls in those days when the quacking Casuals were around.

Wakeyhibee
21-11-2014, 04:41 AM
Alright Richey? What year would the plans for the 'future' stadium be from?

I couldn't say exactly, but I saw that very same plan in a programme or maybe a yearbook I had from the 50's. I don't have the programme/yearbook anymore but guessing it was from around 53/54 IIRC.

Keith_M
21-11-2014, 10:38 AM
Know there's a good few threads asking for pictures of Easter Road as it used to be - a guy on Twitter that posts lots of old-style grounds before renovation has just posted a good few from the 1980s/1990s.

Links all here https://twitter.com/Groundtastic

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgu3ozCUAAtpzq.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgvt0RCYAAi8qr.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgx2nYCUAAxJ0b.jpg:large



Those three pics are how Easter Road looked when I first started attending.

Looking at it now, it really was a bit of a dump


:duck:

Hibrandenburg
21-11-2014, 10:56 AM
:hilarious :thumbsup:

Used to hate walking up those steps behind the terrace. The place was so big and empty in the 70's that you had to shout to the guy standing next to you.

greenpaper55
21-11-2014, 12:52 PM
I was at that Peebles rover game, completely forgot Barcelona were the next opponents, my old man would not let me go to the Barca game as it was a school night not that that would have made any difference !.

1950's hibbie
21-11-2014, 06:06 PM
I remember when that addition was made to the east terracing. I can't remember the date, but did we not call it Hill 60 after one of the battle sites in the Korean war. It must have been done sometime between the end of WW2 and Korea.

stantonhibby
21-11-2014, 08:58 PM
I remember when that addition was made to the east terracing. I can't remember the date, but did we not call it Hill 60 after one of the battle sites in the Korean war. It must have been done sometime between the end of WW2 and Korea.

Yeah that is what my dad called it.

Hibernia&Alba
21-11-2014, 09:04 PM
Those three pics are how Easter Road looked when I first started attending.

Looking at it now, it really was a bit of a dump


:offski:

Me too, and you're right, it was a mess, but a lot of football stadia were before the all seater era.


And it still looked better than the PBS does now.

HUTCHYHIBBY
21-11-2014, 09:06 PM
IIRC my old man and his mates used to call it Table Mountain when I started going in the mid to late 70's.

Bostonhibby
21-11-2014, 09:09 PM
Me too, and you're right, it was a mess, but a lot of football stadia were before the all seater era.


And it still looked better than the PBS does now.

In yamland its called characterful, traditional old stadium, atmospheric etc. Alternatively the stands firewood.

Hibernia&Alba
21-11-2014, 09:14 PM
In yamland its called characterful, traditional old stadium, atmospheric etc. Alternatively the stands firewood.

Aye, it's estate agent speak:

traditional - archaic
lots of character - a ruin
charming - laughable
ideal for renovation - needs knocking down

Bostonhibby
22-11-2014, 10:17 AM
Aye, it's estate agent speak:

traditional - archaic
lots of character - a ruin
charming - laughable
ideal for renovation - needs knocking down
I'm sure an agent would be able to put a sales spin on the fact that so many crimes and criminals have been associated with the place as well

Eyrie
22-11-2014, 10:40 AM
I'm sure an agent would be able to put a sales spin on the fact that so many crimes and criminals have been associated with the place as well

"rich in history and associated with many infamous characters, both Scottish and international"

Bostonhibby
22-11-2014, 10:50 AM
"rich in history and associated with many infamous characters, both Scottish and international"

The last time Mad Vlad was able to set foot on foreign soil outside Russia.

See the only arena in the world where not one but two convicted sex offenders plied their trade.

Big team, famous right enough.

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16-08-2017, 05:38 PM
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Mind the cagoules? (For the away support, of course.)

Nothing so depressing as a bunch of wet Huns in the rain .... :devil:

EastThomasSTboy
17-08-2017, 08:12 AM
The Future Stadium which was to hold 98,000, was featured in the 1947-48 Scottish League Champions Hibs Handbook (on page 15).

I was informed that it was knocked back by our "jambo" supporting councillors, over the rear access road.

Keith_M
17-08-2017, 08:27 AM
19230

Mind the cagoules? (For the away support, of course.)

Nothing so depressing as a bunch of wet Huns in the rain .... :devil:


I remember that. Didn't Hibs get a job lot from one of the Tourist Shops in the Royal Mile? IIRC, they had a big thistle printed on the front.

hibstag
17-08-2017, 09:14 AM
Those three pics are how Easter Road looked when I first started attending.

Looking at it now, it really was a bit of a dump


:duck:
Aye but it was our dump!!! I started going around this time

but to be fair most grounds of that time (early eighties) were similar very little had been done to any British clubs infustructure since the fifties or sixties. There a great book football grounds of Great Britain by Simon inglis from around 1987 that really highlights this. Most of the grounds in the book are unrecognisable to today's versions

EastThomasSTboy
18-08-2017, 10:17 AM
Went to the old ER from the age of Six in 1963, (as I stayed just round the corner from the Ground) and I never thought of it as a "Dump".
The adrenalin rush you got each season as you looked at the new pitch from the Dunbar end (boys gate) took your breath away.
I hated it when they built the cowshed, later started tearing down the huge East terracing and put in that tiny tin stand (The Waugh Era). However it was a more glorious
place then, than it is today with its four "homogenised" modern stands (Its an age thing, honest!!) whereby most modern football stands/grounds are all very similar soulless places.

This will probably get a lot of dislikes!!! but so what, I am a auld grumpy b*****d.