trevdi9 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Speaking of sloping pitches. Graves Park have to be the worst in Sheffield! longley parks quite bad there is one in there that if you stand at one end you only see 2 feet of goalpost's at the other ,ore bole hills used to be like playing on a mountain side , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Royds Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I think the gennell was to keep the smelly unwashed away from the posh folk in the seats Here's another copied off an old film Here'sanother putting the seats in. yep.You can clearly see it now. Those windows on the older photo are, amongst other rooms, the changing rooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple O Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 image.jpg image.jpg If you look at the front wall on both the north & south stands it doesn't look anything like a 6 foot drop from the Leppings Lane end to the kop. Totally agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViolaOwls Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Its not its 1.2 metre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Sl-OWL-ly Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Ask the rain which way it would rather go once it had hit the ground. Even at the Wigan game that got called off cos of the amount of rain coming down you still couldn't see any flow, it just puddled up.. So my guess would be that the rain would prefer to go down into the deep warm soil ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Ohhh look at Neil with hair, chubby little bugger as well! Brain Clifford went on to be famous as the leader of EBRA ….. True story Edited May 6, 2015 by Holmes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barberphobia Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 The river does not appear to have moved in the last 160 years. Although the Wednesdayite car park seems to have been built on a swamp. Cue Monty Python quotes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horny owl Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 The river does not appear to have moved in the last 160 years. Although the Wednesdayite car park seems to have been built on a swamp. Cue Monty Python quotes.... Those early maps must be wrongSurely there was a pig farm where hillsborough is built today The pigs said there was so it must be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Yeah, gi' t'piggery back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S36 OWL Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I think the gennell was to keep the smelly unwashed away from the posh folk in the seats Here's another copied off an old film Here'sanother putting the seats in. Why is the Pope watching the players train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flat Owl Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Barberphobia, The Don was realigned by putting in a new cut downstream of Lepping bridge straight past the old brick works after the ground was established. The whole of the Don river valley would have been marshy until the land was reclaimed to form the banks of the river that is evident today. A meandering river is a sign of a mature valley that has a wide flood plain. The Wednesdayite car park is on the site of the Dam that served the Ward End water wheel & grinding works - now silted up and filled in but still reyt wet - Herries Road cuts across the dam location on the way up to the railway viaduct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 There's some intelligent and interesting people on here. What you can learn on this site is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flat Owl Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) The map also shows the Wards End Dam silted up before the ground was built - possibly as a result of the mess brought down in the Great Flood of 1864 when the Dale Dyke Dam burst at Bradfield which destroyed most of the mills right down to Kelham Island. 244 were killed. Wednesday moved to Owlerton only 35 years later. Edited May 6, 2015 by Flat Owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barberphobia Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) The loop around the ground hasn't shifted much in recent history, although I expect the underlying geology immediately underlying the ground are all river deposits. They obviously didn't check here before they built it.... Edited May 6, 2015 by Barberphobia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Thought Dale Dyke flood came down through Malin Bridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darklord Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Those early maps must be wrong Surely there was a pig farm where hillsborough is built today The pigs said there was so it must be true. you know if them buggers found a time machine they wouldnt go look at some great historical event or peer into the future. No they would go back and pop a pig or two at Hillsborough in 1850 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogbad Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 There's some intelligent and interesting people on here. What you can learn on this site is amazing. Don't say that, I only came on here because everybody seemed as dumb as me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 you know if them buggers found a time machine they wouldnt go look at some great historical event or peer into the future. No they would go back and pop a pig or two at Hillsborough in 1850 FACT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De Bilde Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 No sight of the cladding going on the Leppings Lane end yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardiffowl06 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Wouldn't recladding need planning permission? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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