Saw some pics on a rare foray to Burnden Aces. It's on the Reebok Rant section if some clever person wants to borrow it for a proper site and supporters to look at.

 

Looked very impressive to be honest (the pics not that site)

There has been a pic posted on here. Big tube things for flood lights

There has been a pic posted on here. Big tube things for flood lights

 

Bizarre, only last night was I searching through my old newspaper clippings and came across all the original plans and photos.

Will try scan and post on here later.

I also had the original blue prints for a 3-tiered Reebok Stadium - however they were so large I was unable to get them reduced in size to print in White Love. Looked very impressive.

For those who cannot remember what the area looked like pre-Nando's, etc

Edited March 18, 201313 yr by Smiley

It's really bizarre. My best mate's dad was the tenant farmer who used the land & I used to go tip monkeying with my dad on there by the side of Vicky Mill but now I can't remember what it was like before.

What's tip monkeying?

Behaving like a tip monkey

Didn't the original idea have two tiers that could later be expanded to 3 tiers for when our crowds grew to 50,000?

 

And who says architects don't have a sense of humour?

For those who cannot remember what the area looked like pre-Nando's, etc

 

 

look at all that land hargreaves owned that he sold to himself

they had a little viewing platform in one corner with about 3 rows of seats you could watch and get a feel for the seats went once with a mate

 

wile there a woman with her hubby sat in the seat and turnd to her hubby and said seats are nice but how will we see the pitch from hear

I saw some Middlebrook plans back in the early 90's. There were more roads on it than actually came to pass, one right across the back of the Loco works towards Blackrod - the current dead end of which is near Hitachi(still has potential use if they build right along the loco works). The Middlebrook estate overall had a bigger potential area, some of the land on the other side of the railway was included if I remember right.

 

There were three farms on the land between the A6027 and the Loco works, Sefton Fold Farm at the Reebok end, which I think ended up council owned? but was earlier run(and maybe owned?) by Lonsdale's, New Close Farm which was privately owned by the Sinkers and Lower House Farm(the farm house is still there near Hitachi) was tenanted and owned partly by British Rail and partly by the council.

 

Still remember driving past when there was just a pitch with fencing around it.

 

There were three farms on the land between the A6027 and the Loco works, Sefton Fold Farm at the Reebok end, which I think ended up council owned?

That's the one my best mate's dad had. He was a tenant farmer & it was council owned.

 

That's the one my best mate's dad had. He was a tenant farmer & it was council owned.

 

I thought that Hargreaves owned it all

Went to see the fenced off pitch before building began roll call

 

IWASIN

 

 

(This could also double as the latest shit fan thread)

I thought that Hargreaves owned it all

 

He did, my mistake

 

That's the one I always remembered, thought it looked ace, the actual reebok was a slight let down after that

 

When it was being built my dad was security guard at Vicky mill and I was working there in my student summer holidays, used to watch it getting built on the security cameras every day, were exciting times

 

Why are the dmb's featured on the back of the BEN as this Sharrocks doing?

 

It looks like a blueprint for the new Thunderbird headquarters which were canned due to the cutbacks.

 

FWIW the Reebok was the best looking ground when it opened & it is still among the best. Aye it's not Burnden but we should be proud of it.

the pic reminds me of stadia in Oman or Qatar,what is the building on the right of the stadium supposed to be,a hotel maybe ?

 

i'm also surprised no-one has commented on the colour of the seats

Edited March 18, 201313 yr by miamiwhite

the pic reminds me of stadia in Oman or Qatar,what is the building on the right of the stadium supposed to be,a hotel maybe ?

Greyhound stadium.

 

 

wigans ground. forever in our shadows.

Edited March 18, 201313 yr by The Wanderer