Names of the ends of the ground

[Golden Bear]

Does anyone else remember the Hibs Social Club that was situated behind the old east terracing?

It was the perfect place for a pre-match bevvy as it was only a very short staggering distance to the ground.

[derekHFC]

First game I went to, we went to the Coo'shed.

I've only ever been in the Dunbar end once. It was a European game v either Videoton or maybe FC Brugge.

[H18sry]

I seem to remember in the late seventies the bit between the coo shed and the terracing, under the floodlight being known as the triangle.

[Peevemor]

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First game I went to, we went to the Coo'shed.

I've only ever been in the Dunbar end once. It was a European game v either Videoton or maybe FC Brugge.

Me too - for the Anderlecht game.

[Barney McGrew]

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Me too - for the Anderlecht game.

It was bonkers in there that night

[gillie]

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Does anyone else remember the Hibs Social Club that was situated behind the old east terracing?

It was the perfect place for a pre-match bevvy as it was only a very short staggering distance to the ground.

It's not somewhere I'm aware of, what year are you roughly talking about?

[gillie]

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It was bonkers in there that night

Only time I've been was the aek Athens game it was a bit mad that night too, great atmosphere

[Golden Bear]

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It's not somewhere I'm aware of, what year are you roughly talking about?

Early seventies I'm thinking?

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

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First game I went to, we went to the Coo'shed.

I've only ever been in the Dunbar end once. It was a European game v either Videoton or maybe FC Brugge.

I was in that end for both of those games. Cannae remember why. Getting on for thirty years on and off and have always been in the East apart from a handfull of games.

[gillie]

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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)

Wow 73 years following the hibs, can't be far of our longest serving fan

[mim]

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Does anyone else remember the Hibs Social Club that was situated behind the old east terracing?

It was the perfect place for a pre-match bevvy as it was only a very short staggering distance to the ground.

Certainly do. It was in the car park, which is now flats.

[gillie]

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I seem to remember in the late seventies the bit between the coo shed and the terracing, under the floodlight being known as the triangle.

Anyone else recall this

[Golden Bear]

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Certainly do. It was in the car park, which is now flats.

Good! I was beginning to question my sanity as few folk can remember that Club.

[gillie]

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Certainly do. It was in the car park, which is now flats.

I'm guessing this is now the club that is in Sunnyside?

[Golden Bear]

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Anyone else recall this

I was a "regular" in that part of the ground. It was always great craic and offered a surprisingly good viewing point for the game.

[McD]

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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:

I'm jealous, would love to have went to matches in those days, with that kind of atmosphere

[Itsnoteasy]

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Wow 73 years following the hibs, can't be far of our longest serving fan

That,s devotion. My dad has been going since he was 8 he is now 75. Remember my mum telling me she had given birth to me and he had to get away to go to the match. Still going home and away every week. Still a few old school diehards still with us.

[iwasthere1972]

In the coo shed on European Nights against Liverpool and Leeds United. East terracing when we put five past Dino Zoff as we crushed Naples 5-0.

Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
Those were the days
Those were the days my friend.

[hibbybrian]

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Does anyone else remember the Hibs Social Club that was situated behind the old east terracing?

It was the perfect place for a pre-match bevvy as it was only a very short staggering distance to the ground.

Old Clubhouse in Car Park

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Sunnyside Supporters Club

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[Nailrod]

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In the coo shed on European Nights against Liverpool and Leeds United. East terracing when we put five past Dino Zoff as we crushed Naples 5-0...

I was in the Dunbar End behind the goals for the Napoli game. Nowadays the only goal I can still remember is Bobby Duncan's. It was like he hit it straight at me. Dunbar End for Juventus and Hajduk Split as well. Terracing for Liverpool, Sporting Lisbon, Rosenborg, Besa. (South) Enclosure for Leeds (probably something to do with parents and kids). Can't remember where I was against Malmo first time round; unfortunately I was in 'The Shed' more recently :-(

I've been on the terracing in the days when it still had the top tier and it was full against teams like Hearts, Celtic and Rangers. Had to be the best view in any football ground in the world. Arthur's Seat to the left, the Firth of Forth to the right, and the pitch spread out like a green carpet, miles below you. :-)

[Alfred E Newman]

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I was a "regular" in that part of the ground. It was always great craic and offered a surprisingly good viewing point for the game.

Aye John, spend many a pleasant afternoon there running up and down the terracing to hurl abuse at some unfortunate linesman. Do you remember the guy at the front of the terracing who who used to follow the poor sod up and down the park ? Great days.

[whiskyhibby]

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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?!?

Was it not called the Centenary stand?

[thebakerboy]

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I was in the Dunbar End behind the goals for the Napoli game. Nowadays the only goal I can still remember is Bobby Duncan's. It was like he hit it straight at me. Dunbar End for Juventus and Hajduk Split as well. Terracing for Liverpool, Sporting Lisbon, Rosenborg, Besa. (South) Enclosure for Leeds (probably something to do with parents and kids). Can't remember where I was against Malmo first time round; unfortunately I was in 'The Shed' more recently :-(

I've been on the terracing in the days when it still had the top tier and it was full against teams like Hearts, Celtic and Rangers. Had to be the best view in any football ground in the world. Arthur's Seat to the left, the Firth of Forth to the right, and the pitch spread out like a green carpet, miles below you. :-)

Remember being passed over hands to the front of the Dunbar end for a European match under lights way back as a laddie in the fifties , also in Dunbar end for the Real Madrid game. Was in the Main Stand for the Napoli game right behind Bobby Duncan's shot for the first goal. Remember that being divided into the North and South stands and the same for the Enclosure with Visiting fans being put in the South at big games. Also remember going to old high terracing for a Celtic game and being lifted off my feet by the crush when a horde of Celtic fans poured in just at KO.

[Mr White]

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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.

You're right, 92-93 season. I was in the cow shed that day and it felt pretty strange without the roof. Watched the highlights on you tube recently and was reminded how good a game it was, we deserved to take something from it.

[The Harp]

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Does anyone else remember the Hibs Social Club that was situated behind the old east terracing?

It was the perfect place for a pre-match bevvy as it was only a very short staggering distance to the ground.

Yeah, remember it well. Was a member of it when it first opened, could've been around '68. Very handy before the games.

[Keith_M]

My memories of Easter Road start after segregation had already been in place for a few years (79/80) so I don't remember changing ends at half-time. What I do remember was having a small, unoffical 'singing section' just in front of the path that split the terracing two thirds of the way up, next to the segregation fence.

As others have said, they used to open the gates to the Cave/Cowshed when it rained and we would stream in there. The atmosphere was much better than on an uncovered terrace. I recall wondering why it was that ER seemed to be the only stadium who's Main Terrace had no roof and wished they would build one. It duly arrived in 1985, and the atmosphere was so much better thereafter... even if they did build it with far too many pillars (I think it was 9)

[gillie]

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My memories of Easter Road start after segregation had already been in place for a few years (79/80) so I don't remember changing ends at half-time. What I do remember was having a small, unoffical 'singing section' just in front of the path that split the terracing two thirds of the way up, next to the segregation fence.

As others have said, they used to open the gates to the Cave/Cowshed when it rained and we would stream in there. The atmosphere was much better than on an uncovered terrace. I recall wondering why it was that ER seemed to be the only stadium who's Main Terrace had no roof and wished they would build one. It duly arrived in 1985, and the atmosphere was so much better thereafter... even if they did build it with far too many pillars (I think it was 9)

As I remember I always wanted it to rain when we played hertz as the Dunbar end was the last to be covered

[MM19]

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I'm guessing this is now the club that is in Sunnyside?

No the Hibs club in Sunnyside was always a different club.

[blackpoolhibs]

My mate Billy when referring to the old east terracing always says he used to stand at the top of Shaws heights.

[hibby6270]

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Old Clubhouse in Car Park

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Sunnyside Supporters Club

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Hate to say it but these are pictures of the same building in Sunnyside. The tenement building in the background is the give away.

That said there were definitely 2 clubs. The one in the car park behind the East Terracing entrance turnstiles did exist but I think both clubs ran independent of each other.

As I recall the the one behind the East was taken over by Lothian Regional Council and used as a Social Work Centre? Does anyone remember that?