Anyone remember the Spion Kop / HR (8 Viewers)

[Bob Latchford]

Looking like this ?

 

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[Brylowes]

My first time on the kop would have been mid70s, that picture would probably be mid 50s ?

 

[Bob Latchford]

My first time on the kop would have been mid70s, that picture would probably be mid 50s ?

Sadly , not sure of the date.

 

[georgehudson]

Of course, we used to go & sit up on the crows nest to get the ultimate panoramic view

 

[Bob Latchford]

Of course, we used to go & sit up on the crows nest to get the ultimate panoramic view

What era was the ground like that George ?

 

[wingy]

Can't see any floodlights?

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

My first time on the kop would have been mid70s, that picture would probably be mid 50s ?

Unless my eyes are completely shot, I can't see any floodlights so it's before 1953. The Crows Nest was built I think just before the war...so sometime between these two dates.

 

[italiahorse]

The scoreboard is missing.
Used to stand in the bit standing back (Crowsnest ?) and you could see all the fights below you.
Pre 1967 as floodlights were there when I started.

 

[italiahorse]

Looking at that photo you think of things that would be coming.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

Looking like this ?

Fantastic pic anyway Bob, the Kop looks bloody massive from this angle.

 

[Brylowes]

When did they get rid of the crows nest, I've been on it in the mid 70s, even as a young kid
I remember thinking it looked like a death trap.

 

[Bob Latchford]

Fantastic pic anyway Bob, the Kop looks bloody massive from this angle.

Yeah was thinking how impressive it looked. great little ground.

 

[georgehudson]

T'was the 50's 60's, but when JH came to town I got my s/ticket in the paddock in front of the main stand, used to get to the ground so that we were 1st in as the turnstiles were opened

 

[Brylowes]

Fantastic pic anyway Bob, the Kop looks bloody massive from this angle.

I Wonder how many used to cram in there, if it had been level at its highest point and
With a roof, we'd have had ourselves a kop to rival anyone's, I would think.
Love old pics of football grounds, especially HR.

 

[Bob Latchford]

The scoreboard is missing.
Used to stand in the bit standing back (Crowsnest ?) and you could see all the fights below you.
Pre 1967 as floodlights were there when I started.

There used to be fights in the olden days ? thought it was late 70's all that malarkey ??

 

[Suffolk sky blues]

The toilets use to have prostitutes doing there business

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

Yeah was thinking how impressive it looked. great little ground.

After seeing that photo I'm filling up :emoji_cry: so many happy memories. We should never have left Highfield road.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

I Wonder how many used to cram in there, if it had been level at its highest point and
With a roof, we'd have had ourselves a kop to rival anyone's, I would think.
Love old pics of football grounds, especially HR.

I'm sure I've read somewhere the Kop held 17,000 in its' heyday.
Looking at the shape of it, I guess it was impossible to put a roof on it.

 

[wingy]

The toilets use to have prostitutes doing there business

Is that why everyone used to pee against the wall(s)?:$

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

I'm sure I've read somewhere the Kop held 17,000 in its' heyday.
Looking at the shape of it, I guess it was impossible to put a roof on it.

Actually back in the 70's I think it was, there were plans to develop the spion Kop and build a massive new stand over Swan Lane,
With the road going underneath the the stand. Which would have increased the capacity of Highfield road massively
And then no need to build the Ricoh. !!! If only.

 

[Brylowes]

I'm sure I've read somewhere the Kop held 17,000 in its' heyday.
Looking at the shape of it, I guess it was impossible to put a roof on it.

17000 wouldn't surprise me, a roof would have been impossible, I just meant if you lost the crows nest
And then levelled it out, then plonk a roof on it, would have been an equal to Liverpool, Holte end, SW,
Northbank, Stretford end etc.
Obviously the road running behind it wouldn't allow it, the new east stand had the same shape didn't it
Just not as obvious.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

Is that why everyone used to pee against the wall(s)?:$

I remember the pitch had a slope of about 6ft from the corner flag nearest the Crows Nest down towards the Main Stand. Wouldn't have fancied standing there if the terracing had a similar slope :drowning:

 

[Colin Steins Smile]

Looking like this ?

That picture must be from the 50s . I first went on the Kop in 66 and it had a small cafe selling tea. JH along with Derrick Robbins introduced the scoreboard, which was directly behind the goal at the back of the kop

 

[ecky]

Used to stand on a milk crate in 1970 on the crows nest with my dad and grandad
Seems like yesterday
That stand was packed

 

[dutchman]

I remember it was flipping cold on Spion Kop at this time of year!

 

[chiefdave]

I remember it was flipping cold on Spion Kop at this time of year!

Remember one game against Wimbledon where it was hailing so hard into the Kop it was near impossible to actually face the pitch and watch the game. And just to prove its not a new thing we lost by scoring a late own goal.

 

[1940oldfive]

The toilets use to have prostitutes doing there business

now we are owned and run by one

 

[rupert_bear]

I would say that was mid-fifties, could never work out why the Kop wasn't levelled out as there was quiet a bit of land at the back of the terrace trees, bushes etc, why we ever left HR I'll never know at the time I was massively against and said so regularly on the old GMK site but shouted down by many.

 

[AndreasB]

Anyone remember the past? It was different then.

 

[Otis]

Some of us are still living in the past.

 

[Colin Steins Smile]

Remember one game against Wimbledon where it was hailing so hard into the Kop it was near impossible to actually face the pitch and watch the game. And just to prove its not a new thing we lost by scoring a late own goal.

The worst weather I remember being on the top was the match v Sheffield United, during the 3 day week of the early 70's. I bunked off school to attend as it was an afternoon kick off during the week [this was due to the club not being allowed to use the floodlights, due to power shortages]. We were battling relegation and it snowed.....at half time we were losing 2 - 0. I'm sure the only reason the match lasted to half time was so the 14 000 of us didn;t get a refund. Luckily, the match was abandoned and we won the rescheduled match, which kept us up!

 

[Captain Dart]

I remember it was flipping cold on Spion Kop at this time of year!

Frozen feet & chilblains when you got home.

 

[Flying Fokker]

The worst weather I remember being on the top was the match v Sheffield United, during the 3 day week of the early 70's. I bunked off school to attend as it was an afternoon kick off during the week [this was due to the club not being allowed to use the floodlights, due to power shortages]. We were battling relegation and it snowed.....at half time we were losing 2 - 0. I'm sure the only reason the match lasted to half time was so the 14 000 of us didn;t get a refund. Luckily, the match was abandoned and we won the rescheduled match, which kept us up!

Season Date Home Score Away Competition

Thu 26 Dec Sheffield United 0 - 3 Coventry City League
Wed 28 Aug Coventry City 3 - 1 Sheffield United League
1990/1991
Sat 04 May Coventry City 0 - 0 Sheffield United League
Sat 27 Oct Sheffield United 0 - 1 Coventry City League
1975/1976
Sat 10 Jan Coventry City 1 - 0 Sheffield United League
Sat 13 Sep Sheffield United 0 - 1 Coventry City League
1974/1975
Fri 28 Mar Coventry City 2 - 2 Sheffield United League
Fri 20 Dec Sheffield United 1 - 0 Coventry City League
1973/1974
Sat 06 Apr Sheffield United 0 - 1 Coventry City League
Sat 24 Nov Coventry City 3 - 1 Sheffield United League
1972/1973
Sat 21 Apr Sheffield United 3 - 1 Coventry City League
Sat 18 Nov Coventry City 3 - 0 Sheffield United League
1971/1972
Tue 18 Apr Coventry City 3 - 2 Sheffield United League
Sat 13 Nov Sheffield United 2 - 0 Coventry City League
1967/1968 Sat 23 Dec Sheffield United 2 - 0 Coventry City League
Sat 26 Aug Coventry City 2 - 2 Sheffield United League

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

I stood on the kop throughout the period after the seating was removed until they knocked it down and built a proper stand.
Lets face it , it was crap. :joyful:

 

[Brylowes]

I stood on the kop throughout the period after the seating was removed until they knocked it down and built a proper stand.
Lets face it , it was crap. :joyful:

It was during the period you're on about, before that I loved it.