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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Apr 14, 2024 22:20:48 GMT 1
Memories of Town visits to the old Bolton ground?
I went 2 or 3 times when we played them in the early 80s. Before they built the horrendous Asda on part of the open end.
Stood each time on the open end and remember stones being hurled from outside the ground at us. Also remember the huge floodlights on each corner. As for the games, can very little of interest.
How many others saw us play there?
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Post by Pilch on Apr 14, 2024 22:29:09 GMT 1
I never went there , I wonder how many don't know it was once the scene of a 'hillsborough' type disaster Can't remember the year without looking but the number of deaths I do , it was 33 , have been to the new ground a couple of times , both times bitterly cold and it's like a wind tunnel
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Apr 14, 2024 23:53:18 GMT 1
1946 I think. There was several Utube video stories relating to the disaster, just photos I guess as I didnt watch them. Just saw them whilst finding the clip for the OP.
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Post by davycrockett on Apr 15, 2024 10:25:17 GMT 1
I went there but not to watch Shrewsbury but on the invite of my boss at the time, 1982 but can’t even remember who was playing 😂
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Apr 15, 2024 11:24:42 GMT 1
I never went there , I wonder how many don't know it was once the scene of a 'hillsborough' type disaster Can't remember the year without looking but the number of deaths I do , it was 33 , have been to the new ground a couple of times , both times bitterly cold and it's like a wind tunnel My Dad was there, but not in the section of the ground where the tragedy happened. I used to work for the company that owned Roberts Laboratories whose building backed onto the ground and was the nearest I got to it.
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Post by davycrockett on Apr 15, 2024 11:39:32 GMT 1
I never went there , I wonder how many don't know it was once the scene of a 'hillsborough' type disaster Can't remember the year without looking but the number of deaths I do , it was 33 , have been to the new ground a couple of times , both times bitterly cold and it's like a wind tunnel Just read about it. Unbelievable that they had a short break, lined the corpses behind the touchline covered in coats and carried on with the game.
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Post by wookeywombat on Apr 15, 2024 11:43:17 GMT 1
My only visit was in 1990 when Town won 1-0 with McGinley scoring the winner. Happy days
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Post by Pilch on Apr 15, 2024 11:55:30 GMT 1
I went there but not to watch Shrewsbury but on the invite of my boss at the time, 1982 but can’t even remember who was playing 😂 Bolton ?
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Post by Pilch on Apr 15, 2024 11:57:58 GMT 1
I never went there , I wonder how many don't know it was once the scene of a 'hillsborough' type disaster Can't remember the year without looking but the number of deaths I do , it was 33 , have been to the new ground a couple of times , both times bitterly cold and it's like a wind tunnel Just read about it. Unbelievable that they had a short break, lined the corpses behind the touchline covered in coats and carried on with the game. I cant think of any words to reply to that
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Post by davycrockett on Apr 15, 2024 12:01:05 GMT 1
Just read about it. Unbelievable that they had a short break, lined the corpses behind the touchline covered in coats and carried on with the game. I cant think of any words to reply to that Nor could Stanley Matthew’s At the end of the first-half, the players immediately changed ends and started the second half. Stanley Matthews was on the Stoke team, and said later that he was sickened that the game was allowed to continue.[6]
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Post by MartinB on Apr 15, 2024 12:57:45 GMT 1
Saw us win 1-0 and 2-0 there
Also played in one of the final games on the ground before it was demolished
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Post by wanderlust on Apr 15, 2024 14:37:19 GMT 1
Memories of Town visits to the old Bolton ground? I went 2 or 3 times when we played them in the early 80s. Before they built the horrendous Asda on part of the open end. Stood each time on the open end and remember stones being hurled from outside the ground at us. Also remember the huge floodlights on each corner. As for the games, can very little of interest. How many others saw us play there? Hello again folks. An ASDA would have been a bit of an upgrade on what was actually built there - a (now defunct) supermarket chain called Normid. They sponsored us briefly and produced one of the worst marketing materials of all time, "Norpig" - a bad pun on "The Trotters"
It was on the Embankment, scene of the Burnden disaster which we commemorate every year. At the top of the Embankment was a railway line and in the days of steam, trains would occasionally stop to watch the game..
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Post by wanderlust on Apr 15, 2024 14:50:22 GMT 1
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Apr 15, 2024 15:34:55 GMT 1
I went just the once back in the earlier 90's, can't recall the score but I remember the railway tracks behind the away end, I think it was a midweek game or at least when the dark nights were in as the floodlights were on, I remember the supermarket was there and the red line across the away end informing you about the restricted view. Loads of character but had certainly seen better days.
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Post by wanderlust on Apr 15, 2024 15:47:56 GMT 1
I went just the once back in the earlier 90's, can't recall the score but I remember the railway tracks behind the away end, I think it was a midweek game or at least when the dark nights were in as the floodlights were on, I remember the supermarket was there and the red line across the away end informing you about the restricted view. Loads of character but had certainly seen better days. So in those days, the club were heavily invested into trying to develop the new stadium at the edge of the Borough (Horwich) which would eventually become the Reebok/Macron/Unibol/Toughsheet and Burnden was being carved up to finance it. Problem was that since the LGA of 1974, Bolton had been co-opted into the newly formed Greater Manchester (although everyone still thought of themselves as being part of Lancashire) and the Council blocked the redevelopment of the old ground plans for ages - think it something like 9 years to sort out and the redevelopment of Burnden was an integral part of the financing of the new ground which finally opened in '97. The timescale involved a huge toll on the club's finances but eventually it got done. There was a feeling that a lot of the decision makers in that particular episode were Man United fans who were being intentionally disruptive but of course that couldn't possibly be true......
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Post by kenwood on Apr 15, 2024 16:11:10 GMT 1
Go on then wanderlust, what’s your forecast for Tuesday nights game . Is it going to be a cricket score cos our Manager thinks our keeper is going to suffer from a bad back! I think he means we are going to get a right royal stuffing. OR , do you think Bolton will take pity on us and by so doing come down to our level as we celebrate a point ( yes,I do the lottery every week too😂😂) . Feel free to speak your mind , I can take the raw pain of the truth . Fire away owd lad 👍
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