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[smoggeordie]

Craig, on Mar 10 2010, 12:31 PM, said:

The building to the right in the foreground is part of the University. The photo is taken from the Physics block I think.

Mad that looking up that road towards the East Stand you can see the seats of the old West Stand. Big give away is that there's 4 floodlight pylons too - IIRC when I started going to the match only the two at the western side of the ground were there - the two on the eastern side were replaced by floodlights along the length of the roof of the stand.

Close, the Maths block. Herschel building, the big grey one with the scaffolding on it.

[Dr Kenneth Noisewater]

Craig, on Mar 10 2010, 10:31 AM, said:

The building to the right in the foreground is part of the University. The photo is taken from the Physics block I think.

Mad that looking up that road towards the East Stand you can see the seats of the old West Stand. Big give away is that there's 4 floodlight pylons too - IIRC when I started going to the match only the two at the western side of the ground were there - the two on the eastern side were replaced by floodlights along the length of the roof of the stand.

Yeah, my early match-going memory is the same, just two floodlight pylons.

Is the supporters club hut the one that used to be next to the comic shop in Haymarket?

[Craig]

Dr Kenneth Noisewater, on Mar 12 2010, 12:05 AM, said:

Is the supporters club hut the one that used to be next to the comic shop in Haymarket?

Indeed it is... just over the road from this:



Shame all that's gone now

[Craig]

Pedro in goal for us - lets not mention the score, eh?


Fences going up only 6 years before they hastily came back down...

[Monkeys Fist]

Craig, on Mar 12 2010, 08:43 AM, said:

Dr Kenneth Noisewater, on Mar 12 2010, 12:05 AM, said:

Is the supporters club hut the one that used to be next to the comic shop in Haymarket?

Indeed it is... just over the road from this:



Shame all that's gone now

Ah, The Amphetamine Discount Store, happy days!

[JawD]

Craig, on Mar 12 2010, 08:43 AM, said:

Dr Kenneth Noisewater, on Mar 12 2010, 12:05 AM, said:

Is the supporters club hut the one that used to be next to the comic shop in Haymarket?

Indeed it is... just over the road from this:



Shame all that's gone now

What years that from?  That used to be my local haunt (That, the Doll and the Dog & Parrot) but was The Farmers Rest.

[Craig]

JawD, on Mar 14 2010, 09:46 PM, said:

Craig, on Mar 12 2010, 08:43 AM, said:

Dr Kenneth Noisewater, on Mar 12 2010, 12:05 AM, said:

Is the supporters club hut the one that used to be next to the comic shop in Haymarket?

Indeed it is... just over the road from this:



Shame all that's gone now

What years that from?  That used to be my local haunt (That, the Doll and the Dog & Parrot) but was The Farmers Rest.

Not too sure mate but going by the attire and the 'Giant Screen Live TV' banner I'm guessing it's in the early Premiership years - 1993/4/5 perhaps??

I used to drink in all 3 of those pubs too

[Tom]

Where is/was the The Farmers Rest at?

[PaddockLad]

Tom, on Mar 15 2010, 09:25 PM, said:

Where is/was the The Farmers Rest at?

if I'm not mistaken its was on Percy Street,where the Haymarket bus station/M & S is.......apparently Chelsea tried to take it sometime in the 80s...tried being the operative word  

[Craig]

Tom, on Mar 15 2010, 09:25 PM, said:

Where is/was the The Farmers Rest at?

Thomas Keith you philistine!!  

Before the Haymarket Bus Station was re-developed as part of the M&S expansion in the mid 90s, it was on the north corner of Percy Street and Prudhoe Place. Since the development, Prudhoe Place has actually moved south slightly and I'd guestimate the location was roundabout where this map centres:

http://maps.google.c...76613,-1.615092

[Tom]

In all honesty I still can't picture it!

[Craig]

Leicester (A) 1991/92:






Liverpool (A) 4-0 FA Cup defeat 1984:

[Craig]

Tom, on Mar 15 2010, 10:11 PM, said:

In all honesty I still can't picture it!

I know this is small but it gives you an idea where it was:

[Tom]

Craig, on Mar 15 2010, 10:17 PM, said:

Tom, on Mar 15 2010, 10:11 PM, said:

In all honesty I still can't picture it!

I know this is small but it gives you an idea where it was:

Ah yeh I get you now!

[Craig]

Craig, on Mar 15 2010, 10:17 PM, said:

Tom, on Mar 15 2010, 10:11 PM, said:

In all honesty I still can't picture it!

I know this is small but it gives you an idea where it was:

A better pic with the classic Noda Taxi rank in the foreground.

[Noelie]

Craig, on Mar 2 2010, 08:57 AM, said:

Barrack Road, on Mar 2 2010, 03:53 PM, said:

Craig, on Mar 2 2010, 01:02 PM, said:

IIRC they had that same window display for years....

Anyway, some clips/sounds as well

I'm not a computer whiz so explain why the pics in this post are not showing on my screen when all the others are??

[Tom]

Legendary work there Craig!

Thanks!

[PaddockLad]

Craig, on Mar 15 2010, 10:15 PM, said:

Leicester (A) 1991/92:

You took a camera to that game?  

Mental day, never seen anything like it since then.

We were on the Berwick supporters club bus...got back to Gateshead and stopped for a kebab...there was some mackem gobbing off in the kebab shop so the (obviously sober) bus driver put the fuckers head through the shop window  

[Craig]

Found what appears to be an awesome forum thread of old pics of Newcastle.

http://images.google...eXzwl1pgExOYkaw

The pic outside Bainbridges in Eldon Square with those odd tubes in the ceiling bring memories flooding back!

[Tom]

This picture actually looks like some of Sunderland - near the hospital - look now.