alas poor highfield road (2 Viewers)

[davebow87]

On a rare visit back to cov, travelling down past gosford green and glanced down king richard street expecting to see our famous old stadium. brought a tear to my eye to see blocks of flats instead. It felt like a relative had died. Is there anything there that recognises where our old ground used to be? Couldn't bring myself to go and investigate in case it looked even worse close up....

 

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[sky blue zam]

to be honest i could never bring myself to go there again, admittedly no need to but as you say felt like a relatives gone

 

[Nick]

Isn't there some sort of plaque in the middle of it?

 

[Gray]

What a bunch of drama queens

 

[We'll_live_and_die]

There's a playground in the middle, with houses forming a square overlooking the playground, so it still has the familiar shape of a football ground in the middle. I did the Roof Trusses there, there was no plaque when I visited but it was a building site then.

 

[Otis]

Pretty sure there is a plaque or some sort of memorial.

 

[wingy]

There's a playground in the middle, with houses forming a square overlooking the playground, so it still has the familiar shape of a football ground in the middle. I did the Roof Trusses there, there was no plaque when I visited but it was a building site then.

So theres still a "Pitch " in there somewhere .
Was'nt there some coffuffle that the plaque in the middle had an error.

 

[pusbccfc]

We should have done what Arsenal did. Has anyone seen that? Quite amazing.

 

[Nick]

What have they done?

 

[wingy]

What have they done?

They kept the Art deco Frontage of their Main Stand, incorporated it into the Design of some of the apartments developed on the site

 

[sky blue zam]

We should have done what Arsenal did. Has anyone seen that? Quite amazing.

yeah seen it on the 10 mile hike from the emirates to finsbury park, lol. looks brilliant and they have it all there, apartments conference centre and gym from what i saw.

 

[Nathccfc]

Looks amazing what they've done to highbury. Kept the shape of the stadium and just built into it. Have a look

http://www.highburysquare.com/sitemap.html

 

[ccfc92]

Knock all them houses down, and rebuild Highfield Road. Please :claping hands:

 

[wingy]

Unfortunately ours did'nt lend itself to that kind of treatment,just a load of Pre-stressed concrete + external Cladding + the differential between Capitol City and Decrepid city land prices

 

[WillieStanley]

It does look amazing, Highbury. There should be more done to commemorate the area.

 

[ccfctommy]

It's knocked down, houses are there now. We play somewhere else. Get the fuck over it!

 

[pusbccfc]

From outside you would still think there was a stadium there!

 

[wingy]

http://www.highburysquare.com/gallery.html

Hers some of the Images ,very clever.

 

[skybluejelly]

well from the inside it looks like a1960's comprehensive school

 

[Macca]

It's knocked down, houses are there now. We play somewhere else. Get the feck over it!

Enjoy knocking one out over the empty piece of plastic Ricoh

 

[wingy]

well from the inside it looks like a1960's comprehensive school

I'd say a bit more "Corbusier" than Costain,but the fifties and sixties were his sphere of influence .

 

[valiant15]

I went up there a few weeks ago as i was passing,new houses that already look 20 years old,the roads on where the pitch would of been are all crumbling,its a right dump. Represents the type of people you get there i suppose. I loved highfield road but i wouldn't want to go back now.

 

[TheParsonsHose]

Not sure if arsenal own this but what a great idea if they do, more revenue forward thinking and not something we would expect to see in our city.

 

[Nick]

The thing is, I wonder how much they could sell those apartments for at HIghbury in London compared to Hillfields in Coventry?

 

[Skyblueweeman]

Wasn't the main bit of Arsenals stand kept in tact as it's a listed building? That might be why that's still up and the rest of the development built around it.

WM

 

[pusbccfc]

The thing is, I wonder how much they could sell those apartments for at HIghbury in London compared to Hillfields in Coventry?

Some of them go for around 400k for 4 bedroom in Highbury.

 

[Tad]

Some of them go for around 400k for 4 bedroom in Highbury.

It's probably the same in Hillfields. Not cause the houses are nice. Most of that money will probably go on security.

Hillfields - if its nailed down, we'll take the nails too.