I've seen a sort of street map picture of our old ground at Bothwell Street but are there any actual photographs of the stadium?, and also to settle a slight dispute with a relative was the ground to the right of Bothwell Street at the top on the approach to the bridge?
Thanks in advance.
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Thread: Our original ground
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31-12-2012 12:34 PM #1
Our original ground
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31-12-2012 01:08 PM #2
Yes to the right from the bridge.
The halfay line ran along bothwell street.
Kinda from where the hibs club is through bothwell street and over the road where the gap is with the car garage at the back.
I doubt any pics exist.
Maybe one will surface one day.
A pic must have been taken at some point.
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31-12-2012 01:09 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
1888 ER albert st elgin st.jpg
Prior to this ground at Easter Road Hibs had at least 2 different grounds in Mayfield/Powburn and then leased a ground at Powderhall (to the east of the more recent Powderhall stadium)
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31-12-2012 01:22 PM #4
Does anyone know which year the Hibs club was built?
And was it built on the site of our old ground on purpose?
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31-12-2012 01:26 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-12-2012 01:35 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Here's another dated 1891 showing the ground still there despite the last match being played on 27 September 1890 as building work was encroaching.
1891 ER.jpg
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31-12-2012 01:52 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Regarding the ground itself I don't think it would have looked like much. The Pitch would probably have been roped off and some form of changing facility along the side of pitch. Doubt there was any sort of proper Stand area in the manner we would think.
When Hibs moved into Easter Road in 1893 some years later I am told they had a stand built later where the East is now called the Eggbox. When the old main Stand was built in 1924(?) the Eggbox was demolished and converted to Terracing.
Johnnyboy may know (and no I am not suggesting he was there!)
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31-12-2012 02:05 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
John WILL know - he worked as a rigger's apprentice on the building of that stand.
He told me he was paid sixpence (old pence) a day and his dinner piece was a stale Gregg's sausage roll and a pickled egg.
I'm sure I've seen pictures of the old "Egg-box" stand - which IIRC is actually almost exactly what it looked like, an egg box with the front cut off - but I've no idea where they could be found. I THINK it was on the opposite side of the pitch to the 1924 Main Stand.
Put it this way - if either the Egg-box or the Jonnyboy Stand was built at Tynecastle today, it would be a huge modernisation of the place - not to mention an immeasurable improvement.
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31-12-2012 02:15 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Eggbox stand
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1913-1914 team in front of east stand.jpg
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31-12-2012 02:32 PM #10
I was chatting with my uncle after the game on Saturday, moaning about the traffic as we were trying to get back to Northfield Rd. It turns out according to him that the stadium could of been built at the end of Northfield Rd at the site where the cemetery is located now, Easter Rd was chosen over it because of the close proximity to the steel yard that was supplying the steel work.
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31-12-2012 02:32 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-12-2012 02:41 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Hibernian's Northfield ground
1912 Jocks lodge.jpg
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31-12-2012 02:48 PM #13
If you go down to Easter Road there is an exhibition about all of the Hibs grounds. Including maps, architectural drawings, pictures and other paraphernalia.
Put on by the Hibernian Historical Trust.
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31-12-2012 02:51 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That's it!
Thanks, Brian.
I've always wondered how on earth anyone saw anything of the game from the back of that stand. I take it that that would be the press box on the top?Last edited by --------; 31-12-2012 at 02:53 PM.
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31-12-2012 03:33 PM #16
This is a great site for old maps of Edinburgh.
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_maps/0...thumbnails.htm
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31-12-2012 03:49 PM #17
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I never realised that the ground at Northfield was once ours. Always thought it might have been something to do with Bruce Anchor who had a site there. Old-maps.co.uk is pretty good for old Ordnance Survey maps
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31-12-2012 04:18 PM #18
Cheers for all the replies guys, fascinating stuff.
Last edited by HIBERNIAN-0762; 31-12-2012 at 06:30 PM.
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The ground your maybe thinking of is where morrisons is now. There was a wee stand there and hibs used it for training in the 80's.
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The railway company said they needed some of the land for expansion and it was bought by compulsory purchase however they never used it
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The proposed Northfield ground ran from the newish flats on Northfield Broadway along to the cemetery and down as far as Mountcastle Green. The stand where Morrisons is now belonged to Royal High when it was a prep school for the main school in the old building on Regent Road that was once going to be the Scottish Parliament. The stained glass above the entrance to Morrisons shows Royal High playing rugby at the site. Off topic, but surely there should be a plaque on St Mary's Street Halls to show where Hibernians were founded. Unbelievable there isn't one.
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02-01-2013 05:28 PM #29
Seemingly our very very first "ground", I suppose it was more of a "patch", on the meadows was at the Eastern most end, where the tennis courts around Sciennes sits.
Essential info in this book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hibernian-Th.../dp/0859764265
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Ill have a look for it later and see if i can put it up .
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