Growing up in the 70/80s I recall the famous five stand being called the cow shed and the away end called the Dunbar end but while talking with a friend today he suggested I was slavering I'm hoping someone will confirm he was indeed the slaver
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Thread: Names of the ends of the ground
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31-12-2013 06:17 PM #1
Names of the ends of the ground
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31-12-2013 06:19 PM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-12-2013 06:19 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
South stand/away stand was indeed known as the Dunbar end, I grew up knowing it as that
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31-12-2013 06:25 PM #4
Dunbars lemonade factory was at the South end of the ground, hence 'The Dunbar end'
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31-12-2013 06:29 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Thanks guys
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31-12-2013 06:32 PM #6
I'm now wondering if the ends of the grounds have been known by any other names prior to this
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31-12-2013 06:36 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteNever one to laugh at others misfortune but today could only have been improved by rangers getting horsed and God pissing down a meteor shower of fifty pound notes on Edinburgh
Copyright BadMartini Wed 27th Jan 2010
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31-12-2013 06:38 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-12-2013 06:39 PM #9
Not sure if this was just the name my old man had for it but he always referred to the East Stand as the terracing.
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31-12-2013 06:44 PM #10
Johnnyboy still likes to refer to our ground as The Meadows.
Every gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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31-12-2013 07:03 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis is how it feels
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31-12-2013 08:22 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteNever one to laugh at others misfortune but today could only have been improved by rangers getting horsed and God pissing down a meteor shower of fifty pound notes on Edinburgh
Copyright BadMartini Wed 27th Jan 2010
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31-12-2013 08:45 PM #13
Way way back when I first went in 1940 some referred to the north end as the "Cemetery End " but it never was used regularly by punters .
When they put the roof on it became " The Cow Shed " although as some said it was also called the " Cave" because of it resembling such an area !! It never really caught on either .
South end has as long as I have attended been known as "The Dunbar(s) End " and the East side as " The Terracing ".
Don't forget Playing " down the slope " !!
Happy days indeed : with a wonderful atmosphere the likes of which we will never know again ( sadly)
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31-12-2013 08:51 PM #14
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31-12-2013 08:55 PM #15
Cow shed was great,they would open the gates and let fans in if it started raining,always had a great wee atmosphere in it
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31-12-2013 09:41 PM #18
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Can still remember being at a game just prior to the cow shed being built and seeing several big holes had been dug in the terracing steps. We were all saying "no, it cannae be for pillars" - this was in the era of cantilever stands. How wrong we were?!?
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01-01-2014 12:24 AM #19
When I first started going to ER The old Main Syand was just "The Stand".
The wee bit of standing terrace in front of it was "The Enclosure".
The terrace opposite the Stand was simply "The Terrace", "The Terracing", or "The Main Terrace/Terracing".
The South end of the ground was "The Dunbar End" from the Dunbar's fizzy drinks factory that stood just behind that end. (I used to love their Red Kola, btw.)
And the North end was "The Albion Road End", for reasons that are fairly obvious.
There was a weird concrete erection at the Albion Road End, called either "The Cowshed" or "The Cave". This was where the really diehard Hibbies gathered (the view btw was dreadful, since the pillars supporting the roof were about two feet square - it looked like a Nazi U-boat pen that had got stranded when the tide went out - but I can remember great high jinks in there whenever a group of away fans tried to move in under the roof.)
That, as far as I can remember, was the way things were around 1965, though I'm happy to be better informed by any other auld codger with a few more marbles than I have left.
The pitch sloped downwards towards the Albion Road End - the Dunbar End goals were 8 feet higher that the ones at the Albion Road End, and Hibs always played up the slope first half if they won the toss. Down the slope second half we were terrifying (to the opposition) - the momentum would build and build and then the guys in the Stand would start a chant of "Gerrintaethum" and stamp their feet in unison - Da-dum Da-DAH, Da-dum Da-DAH - and the old TIN shed would resonate like a huge drum and the guys on the terraces would join in clapping their hands and the clouds of cigarette smoke and the smell of liniment would waft round the ground under the floodlights on their high pylons ...
... and I think I'm gonnae cry.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE.
:tbgwa::tbgwa::tbgwa::tbgwa::tbgwa:
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01-01-2014 12:56 AM #20
Great memories Doddie. The other thing I remember around this time of year was the smell of cigar smoke in the main stand. It never seemed to be at any other time apart from Christmas and New Year.
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01-01-2014 01:13 AM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Posted this before, part of the old factory is still there"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it" - George Bernard Shaw.
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01-01-2014 01:57 AM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Oh my yes. Everybody seemed to get cigars for Christmas. Wills' Panatellas in individual aluminium tubes IIRC.
Or the wee Dutch ones in the flat tins.
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01-01-2014 05:04 AM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Remember on the concrete roof supports, someone bizzarly painted the word "plug" on the beam?
Now being a 10 year old who read comics like The Beano at the time, I always imagined Plug from The Bash Street Kids doing that for a laugh. A bit random I know but I always thought that whenever I saw it :-D
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01-01-2014 07:00 AM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Aye. Beautiful memories.
As I once almost said to Linda Lusardi.
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01-01-2014 08:21 AM #26
I recall one game that was going to be potentially called off due to the cow shed roof being ripped off with high winds.
The game went ahead anyway and I'm positive it was against Rangers (losing 4-3). I might be wrong.
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01-01-2014 08:43 AM #29
The Old Coo Shed wi the uncomfiest wooden benches ever, had a season ticket in there as a wee boy before moving over to the terracing.
The pie hut was up the back, if I remember correctly then I kind of remember it being moved doon to the bottom right.
Remember walking back up from the Pie Hut wi ma Kit Kat and being blootered by a stray shot, I'm sure it was captured on Sportscene, I'll need to dig oot the VHS tapes to find it.
There was a scoreboard on the roof of the Coo Shed, until the high winds blew it doon and I'm sure they had to shut it for a while cause it became unsafe.
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