SatanGreavsie Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Just on the capacity topic, I'll quote myself from 6 years ago: Quote Aside from that, just looked at an old programme (Coventry 1978 - was that the brown shirt one??) and in the letters page someone (from Hanover St. in Leyth) asked for the ground capacity breakdown at that point. Des McBain answers: Capacity 42,466 Home Embankment 9,000 Away Embankment 6,000 Burnden Stand 2652 Paddock 10,534 Lever End 4,330 Manny Road Terrace South 2,750 Manny Road Terrace North 2,250 Manny Road Stand 4,556 Wing Stand (chortle) 928 Oddly, that adds up to 43,000 not 42466 - so we couldn't get our figures right even back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C86 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 6 hours ago, SatanGreavsie said: Just on the capacity topic, I'll quote myself from 6 years ago: Before the seats I think the Lever End was 12K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 7, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 7, 2023 3 hours ago, C86 said: Before the seats I think the Lever End was 12K One of the biggest cock ups the club ever made I reckon. Just before my time attending, but I would have loved to experience that packed end under cover. Plenty of room as a stand of course- could stretch your legs out a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 7 hours ago, C86 said: Before the seats I think the Lever End was 12K Must have been as we got 50k on the Everton LC semi. So 7k on top of the above quote, which could only have been Lever end minus a few hundred. So yeh, implies that held at least 11k. Bugs we to this day that the first game I went to (apart from a couple of earlier excursions courtesy of a birthday bash for school chum thanks to his dad) was Notts County, which was the one before the 50k. As I relied on the goodwill of some compo holders back then the semi was out. So the biggest I ever saw there was 36k after the Lever seats went in. God knows how the official capacity was 43k - games like Liverpool in that first top flight season, 78-79, I genuinely can't think how 7k more could have been squeezed in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
embankment Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 On 06/12/2023 at 00:41, jeep said: @embankment You should know the answers to this surely...... Summer of 1975 the fences went up at both ends . Summer of 1976 the Embankment was lowered down and the walkway was installed at the rear of the Embankment. Plus steps out to the car park on the old railway. Basically it was sanitised, and we were caged in , no more access to the scoreboard . No more running back and forth across the pitch . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 What year did the seats go in the lever end? Fuck me bet that pleased a few. Folk moan now about waiting 20 mins for busses to clear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeep Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 hour ago, gonzo said: What year did the seats go in the lever end? Fuck me bet that pleased a few. Folk moan now about waiting 20 mins for busses to clear Summer 1978? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted December 8, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 11 hours ago, SatanGreavsie said: Must have been as we got 50k on the Everton LC semi. So 7k on top of the above quote, which could only have been Lever end minus a few hundred. So yeh, implies that held at least 11k. Bugs we to this day that the first game I went to (apart from a couple of earlier excursions courtesy of a birthday bash for school chum thanks to his dad) was Notts County, which was the one before the 50k. As I relied on the goodwill of some compo holders back then the semi was out. So the biggest I ever saw there was 36k after the Lever seats went in. God knows how the official capacity was 43k - games like Liverpool in that first top flight season, 78-79, I genuinely can't think how 7k more could have been squeezed in. Cast your mind back to the science lesson on states of matter. A gas with plenty space between particles = reserve team home games A liquid with considerably less space between particles = normal league games at Burnden A solid, with particles tightly packed in = Everton at Burnden in LC Semi-Final Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manchester_whites Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 hour ago, jeep said: Summer 1978? Definitely Summer 1978. I think we had to put the seats in the Lever End because we didn’t have enough seats for the top division Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazBob Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 I'd heard that seats were put in the Lever end because it was deemed not stable enough due to a river running underneath it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 8, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 17 minutes ago, DazBob said: I'd heard that seats were put in the Lever end because it was deemed not stable enough due to a river running underneath it? Never heard that one before. Anyway, looking at maps, the croal doesn't go that way. Goes under the A666, around where "Toysasaurus" was and comes out on the other side around ⅔ of the way along the pitch, as was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gonzo Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Underground rivers blow my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 8, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 hour ago, gonzo said: Underground rivers blow my mind. It flows through a massive, hidden underground shelter, guarded by Orcs and provides all the drinking water needed, before the dark Lord's armies emerge to do their worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter FrancisFogarty Posted December 8, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 33 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: It flows through a massive, hidden underground shelter, guarded by Orcs and provides all the drinking water needed, before the dark Lord's armies emerge to do their worst. Or like Phantom o'th Opera. A scarred posh bloke punting around in the dark with a kidnapped posh bird shitting herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeversLeftPeg Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 2 hours ago, gonzo said: Underground rivers blow my mind. I saw a video on FB the other day and there's one contained entirely in a green pipe above Sloane Square tube stop. Was originally underground until they constructed the tube and had to encase to build underneath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: It flows through a massive, hidden underground shelter, guarded by Orcs and provides all the drinking water needed, before the dark Lord's armies emerge to do their worst. Cripey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 8, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 3 minutes ago, gonzo said: Cripey It's true. I used to cut the grass near there and I saw one once. Could have been a local of course... 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter RONNIE PHILLIPS Posted December 8, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 5 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Never heard that one before. Anyway, looking at maps, the croal doesn't go that way. Goes under the A666, around where "Toysasaurus" was and comes out on the other side around ⅔ of the way along the pitch, as was. Didn't realise there used to be a, dinosaur around those parts 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 8, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 hour ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said: Didn't realise there used to be a, dinosaur around those parts 😁 Oh aye; "legosaurus" regularly twatting "play stationatops". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted December 8, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 Talking of sub-terranian rivers, I remember fondly the Thirlmere Aqueduct bursting where it runs along the A6 near Little Hulton. It’s 7’ diameter and runs from Thirlmere to Manchester using gravity alone. Nobody knew where the upstream tap was and it flooded a few homes. I hadn’t realised how close to Reebok it goes. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7937446 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 12 hours ago, gonzo said: Underground rivers blow my mind. Little known Pink Floyd b-side from the Syd Barrett years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krimzon Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Probably been done, but prime Dave higson . Misses out the violence in this first part of the famous double header......I wasnt allowed to go as a 15 yr old , Probably cos I lived in Burnley at the time...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krimzon Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Another Burnley , dont remember this game at all , only ever went when we were in the corner with the no-mans land on one side , never been behind the goal ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krimzon Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Not seen this in ages , but priceless , maybe for the younger ones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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