Gee SCREAMER !! Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 14 hours ago, David said: Saw the title and was expecting this to be a Pride Park thread ? Nah. The den of despair doesn't come close. loweman2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24Charlie Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Does anyone think we should not have moved? GangwayD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 24 minutes ago, 24Charlie said: Does anyone think we should not have moved? Loved the place. Loved the excitement. Love the romance. Love the memories. ... But it really was time to move out. It was way past its best. PPS may be (Is!) soulless, but it is safe, comfortable, and practical for modern day football, and the families that now attend. Sad, but the right move! Patrick Rams, 24Charlie, MickD and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteHorseRam Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Mucker1884 said: soulless, but it is safe, comfortable If I wanted those things I'd support someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, 24Charlie said: Does anyone think we should not have moved? it was a dump. Our dump, our beloved dump but a dump nonetheless. MickD and Mucker1884 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IslandExile Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Mucker1884 said: Loved the place. Loved the excitement. Love the romance. Love the memories. ... But it really was time to move out. It was way past its best. PPS may be (Is!) soulless, but it is safe, comfortable, and practical for modern day football, and the families that now attend. Sad, but the right move! Sad but true. Mucker1884 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool_as_custard Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 On 15/06/2021 at 08:38, 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. Wouldn't it be good if signs containing these iconic images of various aspects of the old BBG were placed now so people could get a proper perspective of how this all looked back in the day? loweman2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loweman2 Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 On 15/06/2021 at 08:47, Dean (hick) Saunders said: That last photo makes me smell chips.? Get a good waft of those bad boys ! Dean (hick) Saunders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 9 hours ago, WhiteHorseRam said: If I wanted those things I'd support someone else. Are you saying you would be happy to watch football in an unsafe and/or uncomfortable environment, or am I misunderstanding your post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanRam Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 19 hours ago, loweman2 said: That was 2004; fast forward 17 years and guess what? We're still a troubled club! Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 9 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said: it was a dump. Our dump, our beloved dump but a dump nonetheless. It was, certainly by 1997. But weren’t we told redevelopment was near impossible/too costly, due to the residential areas being so close? I suspect roads and all kinds of things would’ve needed changing. Let’s say for arguments sake the costs and practicalities of moving vs full redevelopment of the BBG were identical, I’d have chosen to stay every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickD Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 On 15/06/2021 at 00:38, 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. My Grandparents owned the chippy on the corner of Reeves Road. Interesting picture of it now looking smart. Reggie Greenwood and loweman2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, MickD said: My Grandparents owned the chippy on the corner of Reeves Road. Interesting picture of it now looking smart. Tidy plaice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 The statue is on the position of the centre circle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 On 15/06/2021 at 13:57, loweman2 said: 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 ! A couple more photos for comparisons it looks like at some point a whole street was demolished near the ground to build a car park and in the oldest photo there’s a White House at the Ozzie end where the changing rooms once were Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 10 minutes ago, davenportram said: The statue is on the position of the centre circle. That's cool. #COYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loweman2 Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, davenportram said: The statue is on the position of the centre circle. It’s not it’s deffo at the osmaston end, on that picture that is the tennis courts of the sports club in the back ground, but you would have thought they would have put in in the centre circle but that’s just about where the first lot of houses are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 13 minutes ago, loweman2 said: It’s not it’s deffo at the osmaston end, on that picture that is the tennis courts of the sports club in the back ground, but you would have thought they would have put in in the centre circle but that’s just about where the first lot of houses are. Oh well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickD Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 4 hours ago, i-Ram said: Tidy plaice. Oh no! You cod do batter than that. You've had your chips. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteHorseRam Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 14 hours ago, Mucker1884 said: Are you saying you would be happy to watch football in an unsafe and/or uncomfortable environment, or am I misunderstanding your post? Calm down Dear. safe - obviously comfortable - obviously soulless - a VERY high price to pay ... why does it have to be soulless? 'safe, comfortable , soulless' - does sound like somebody else ... maybe Arsenal post Wenger high tide, that was the thrust of my post. As I said before, maybe it's a rose-tinted age thing - I remember cheering a lot at the BBG watching other teams flail about in the stair rod rain. At PP I have spent/spend a lot of time arms crossed, tutting, and wondering what the hell is going on. Recently (pre COVID) its felt like going to visit a very sick relative in a distant large hospital - I thought I should have been taking grapes. The brave souls who assembled in the car park to cheer before the Wednesday game were like the band outside Pete Postlethwaite's window in Brassed Off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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