Is this Highfield Rd? (2 Viewers)

[Gynnsthetonic]

Can't remember anything but sky blue railings, I go back to 1968/69

Yes just found this pic from the 70s and sky blue railings in the WT

 

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[undies]

@undies I’m 100% sure it’s Millwall, the old den.

Only thing missing is the tarmac sponsor but this photo was dated 1993 so had probably been replaced by then.

If you’re correct on the late 70s date, probably either 5 Feb or 31 Dec 1977. Millwall winning both, 3-0 & 1-0.

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@skybluecam the Bolton pic is definitely late 70s. Like any good fan I can put a year on the strip. This picture you posted settles the argument. Well done. Looks like all the major reference points tally up with my picture. I'll report back to the Wanderers forum (thick as custard that lot) with this information. I will obviously give you guys no credit whatsoever and claim all the glory for myself.

 

[Flying Fokker]

Is that definitely 1959? thought that Hill introduced Sky Blue in 1961 when he became manager, prior to that we were blue and white..

I agree, wasn’t there of course. I posted this link on here ref another ‘memory’ . Hill definitely defined city as the Sky Blues although we played in Sky blue for 20 odd years from the late 19th C. IMV, The reference towards the ground being painted Sky Blue earlier than the Hill era is likely to be true and could have influenced Hill’s thinking about our branding?

 

[skybluecam]

@skybluecam the Bolton pic is definitely late 70s. Like any good fan I can put a year on the strip. This picture you posted settles the argument. Well done. Looks like all the major reference points tally up with my picture. I'll report back to the Wanderers forum (thick as custard that lot) with this information. I will obviously give you guys no credit whatsoever and claim all the glory for myself.

You’re welcome. I would do the same! Enjoy that wonderfully smug feeling.

 

[SwanLane]

Phew. I’m glad it’s Millwall as it puts the photo at 1977 latest. I was horrified at the thought of that bloke wearing flares that massive as late as 1979. You could get your head kicked in for a lot less round the Den at that time.

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

You’re welcome. I would do the same! Enjoy that wonderfully smug feeling.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Baseball Ground?

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Can't remember anything but sky blue railings, I go back to 1968/69

The fences on the kop separating home & away fans were a jarring shade of green in the 70s, that’s what you’re thinking of

 

[MTK]

Ground appears to have been Sky Blue to some degree before JH.

This picture is from 1959

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Is that the top of King Richard Street? You can just see the edge of the shop that used to be on the corner of Mowbray Street on the far right of the photo. Grew up on Mowbray Street so love to see photos of around there. I wasn't born until 63 so one of my first memories - apart from wondering where the crowds going past the window were going - was the fire in the main stand in 1968. So glad I grew up there because it gave me my lifelong love of the Sky Blues.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

The fences on the kop separating home & away fans were a jarring shade of green in the 70s, that’s what you’re thinking of

The perimeter fence on the West terrace were green too, I was watching highlights of the 1980 Birmingham FA Cup game yesterday, I remember definitely green somewhere in the ground

 

[napolimp]

Speaking of random photos, anyone remember when Earnshaw assaulted that Cov fan?