The Spiritual home of Derby County FC

[loweman2]

I posted some of these yesterday on the Baseball Ground memories post but I think that they warrant a post of their own for the fans who don’t live around Derby or those who do who have never revisited the old BBG area, the surrounding roads etc and may have wondered what it now looks like.

The names are all the same but the view is very different.

I took a walk around, first time i had done it, I could feel the hairs on my neck start buzzing as I walked down Cambridge Street, it has such an image etched in my memory of the floodlights at the Osmaston End and the welcome to the Baseball Ground sign, Shaftesbury Crescent columbo St, Vulcan St, the names forever associated with those walks to the ground, the smells of beer and fags from the pubs along the way that filled the air, the locals stood on their doorsteps to protect their windows, the scuffles that would break out, the police horses being used to skilfully control the crowd, the chants that would echo around the close knit roads, all of those memories of a time gone past are held in these photos.

[Day]

Saw the title and was expecting this to be a Pride Park thread ?

[Dean (hick) Saunders]

That last photo makes me smell chips.?

[loweman2]

22 minutes ago, David said:

Saw the title and was expecting this to be a Pride Park thread ?

No mate that is the equivalent of a YMCA doss down over night ??

[uttoxram75]

30 minutes ago, David said:

Saw the title and was expecting this to be a Pride Park thread ?

phiiistine

Edited June 15, 2021 by uttoxram75

[WhiteHorseRam]

40 minutes ago, loweman2 said:

I posted some of these yesterday on the Baseball Ground memories post but I think that they warrant a post of their own for the fans who don’t live around Derby or those who do who have never revisited the old BBG area, the surrounding roads etc and may have wondered what it now looks like.

The names are all the same but the view is very different.

I took a walk around, first time i had done it, I could feel the hairs on my neck start buzzing as I walked down Cambridge Street, it has such an image etched in my memory of the floodlights at the Osmaston End and the welcome to the Baseball Ground sign, Shaftesbury Crescent columbo St, Vulcan St, the names forever associated with those walks to the ground, the smells of beer and fags from the pubs along the way that filled the air, the locals stood on their doorsteps to protect their windows, the scuffles that would break out, the police horses being used to skilfully control the crowd, the chants that would echo around the close knit roads, all of those memories of a time gone past are held in these photos.

Thanks for this. Awesome memories.

It's almost certainly an age/rose-tinted thing, but I have never felt the same about PP as I did about the old ground.

 

[GboroRam]

38 minutes ago, David said:

Saw the title and was expecting this to be a Pride Park thread ?

Or, briefly, "the iPro".

[Eatonram]

Imagine Autumn 1972, Derby about to play Benfica, you approach from Osmaston Road, up to Shaftsbury Crescent, you take the slight brow of the hill and walk down towards the BBG, the days when the houses were only 30 feet from the ABC stand, there are so many people swirling and jostling to get to their part of the ground you can hardly move, it is a sea of of people. There are Police horses, hot dog stands, programme sellers, the feeling was unbelievable for a kid. It took us so long to get to our turnstile that night, we were in the Normanton Paddock, the only place we could get tickets, we had to be walked along the edge of the pitch, and pushed into the front of the crowd. What a night. Great view of the goals too as all three were scored at the Normanton End. I remember those days so vividly, feel very lucky to have seen the games I have, and experienced football at it's rawest, home and away. To think no one now will feel the thrill of a packed terrace when your team scores. Nothing like it.

[Day]

49 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said:

phiiistine

How do you know I’m not Israeli?

[ossieram]

1 hour ago, loweman2 said:

I posted some of these yesterday on the Baseball Ground memories post but I think that they warrant a post of their own for the fans who don’t live around Derby or those who do who have never revisited the old BBG area, the surrounding roads etc and may have wondered what it now looks like.

The names are all the same but the view is very different.

I took a walk around, first time i had done it, I could feel the hairs on my neck start buzzing as I walked down Cambridge Street, it has such an image etched in my memory of the floodlights at the Osmaston End and the welcome to the Baseball Ground sign, Shaftesbury Crescent columbo St, Vulcan St, the names forever associated with those walks to the ground, the smells of beer and fags from the pubs along the way that filled the air, the locals stood on their doorsteps to protect their windows, the scuffles that would break out, the police horses being used to skilfully control the crowd, the chants that would echo around the close knit roads, all of those memories of a time gone past are held in these photos.

Did you post these on the lost football grounds group on Facebook?

[CBRammette]

Thanks for posting these. Lots of memories. 

[loweman2]

1 hour ago, ossieram said:

Did you post these on the lost football grounds group on Facebook?

yes @ossieramthought they needed sharing a bit !

[uttoxram75]

2 hours ago, GboroRam said:

Or, briefly, "the iPro".

Don’t encourage him.

[Eddie]

3 hours ago, David said:

Saw the title and was expecting this to be a Pride Park thread ?

The Racecourse (Derbyshire CCC), surely?

[Boycie]

23 minutes ago, Eddie said:

The Racecourse (Derbyshire CCC), surely?

Don’t ruin it for them Eddie 

[loweman2]

i know there are a few younguns on here who never actually went to the BBG so here is a an aerial map of where it was !

[i-Ram]

4 hours ago, David said:

How do you know I’m not Israeli?

King David perhaps.

When I talk to other forum members about you they often refer to you as …king David

[IslandExile]

I miss games at the BBG.

Different era.

[loweman2]

[MuespachRam]

So sad that they did such a crap job when they took It down, just stuck up a crap little statue, named a few streets after It and that’s It. I have only been down there maybe 2 or 3 times since we moved to Legoland and It is, as I said, sad. Just a miserable place