Filbert St Demolition

[davieG]

Don't look if your'e emotional.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/history/gallery/10-great-photos-record-demolition-1782507

 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

[StanSP]

no matter how many times I look at those pictures, it still gets me. I went to the stadium far less than some people on here and may have less memories but it's the first stadium I ever went to and will always hold a place in my heart.

The picture that gets me the most is from the outside of the Carling Stand with the brickwork and half of the stand totally erased. Don't know why. 

Just looks so derelict and desolate but then you gotta remember the good times there. Some of the goals and winning moments there . 

[purpleronnie]

Never felt the same after the carling stand was built, it always looked out of place...although I stood in the main stand so wasn't happy about not being able to stand where I had for years.

 

So I wasn't too disappointed when we moved, but I just wish we'd come up with something a bit more interesting.

 

 

[davieG]

14 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Never felt the same after the carling stand was built, it always looked out of place...although I stood in the main stand so wasn't happy about not being able to stand where I had for years.

 

So I wasn't too disappointed when we moved, but I just wish we'd come up with something a bit more interesting.

 

 

Well we did with the Bede Island development but that was quashed by the Offside protest group and the Council. 

Pierrepoint for all his inability to get on with MON, both had big egos he had grandiose ideas that went when he was ousted and we ended up with the Ikea self assembly stadium.

 

With the rumoured plans by the owners we'll eventually end up with something near to or similar to the Bede Island proposal, shame as I quite liked the idea of the stadium being on an 'island'.

[Ted Maul]

Still sad to look at, but it doesn't hurt half as much as it did 5 years ago- for all its faults, the current ground has some fantastic history behind it now and feels like home.

 

Photo number 10 is incredible- I was youngish when Filbert Street went, I can remember inside the ground vividly but the memories of the outside have faded. Amazing how the double decker stood so closely over the houses on Burnmoor Street.

[willie-bell-in-rothley]

How sad , great memories, good times.

[Bert]

The double decker will always be my favourite ever stand. Spent my first few games in the upper tier then moved down to SK1/2 for the last two seasons. 

[SemperEadem]

Moving from a characterful, intense and unique stadium to an identikit bowl makes the move extra disappointing.

[Ted Maul]

5 minutes ago, baker11 said:

Moving from a characterful, intense and unique stadium to an identikit bowl makes the move extra disappointing.

It does, but we probably wouldn't have won the league if we had stayed. Becoming a stable top flight club would have been even more difficult too. Just a shame we moved in the era when bowl stadiums were the norm. 

[sylofox]

Stood in SK2 while the away fans in 1 pelted us with coins and batteries and the like.

 

Those were the days my friends.

Edited 14 July 2018 by sylofox

[davieG]

1 minute ago, sylofox said:

Stood in SK2 while the away fans in 1 melted us with coins and batteries and the like.

 

Those were the days my friends.

Very hot then I would imagine

[tylesta]

2 hours ago, Bert said:

The double decker will always be my favourite ever stand. Spent my first few games in the upper tier then moved down to SK1/2 for the last two seasons. 

Shitty stand but will never forget it. So many memories in there.

[SpacedX]

I would have loved the East and North Stands to have been developed and to have remained there - I'm sure the club owned the adjacent housing but sold it off. 

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Line-X said:

I would have loved the East and North Stands to have been developed and to have remained there - I'm sure the club owned the adjacent housing but sold it off. 

They did but slowly bought it back paying more for one house than they got for the lot that they sold. I think there was still one they didn't own and were struggling to buy but that's not what stopped the development it was the impact of a big new full length of the pitch north stand blocking the light into the houses on Burnmour St.

[SpacedX]

1 minute ago, davieG said:

They did but slowly bought it back paying more for one house than they got for the lot that they sold. I think there was still one they didn't own and were struggling to buy but that's not what stopped the development it was the impact of a big new full length of the pitch north stand blocking the light into the houses on Burnmour St.

Thanks for that, I never realised that they had been repurchased and hadn't considered the light deprivation for residents. There are nonetheless grounds that have similarly redeveloped shrouded by similar terraced housing in close proximity. I would have preferred to have seen a redeveloped Filbert Street than an insipid Walkers Stadium - in spite of what is became and the memories that it spawned. 

[cropstonfox]

On the wall in the popular side watching shilts warm up.Then off to pen two as a youth.Those were the days my friend.....

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Line-X said:

Thanks for that, I never realised that they had been repurchased and hadn't considered the light deprivation for residents. There are nonetheless grounds that have similarly redeveloped shrouded by similar terraced housing in close proximity. I would have preferred to have seen a redeveloped Filbert Street than an insipid Walkers Stadium - in spite of what is became and the memories that it spawned. 

Perhaps they'd always had a big stand in front of them or at least from a time when nobody cared whereas we were going from a low to a very high stand.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

As bike shed season ticket holder in the final year, that picture of it with no roof must be the most sunlight the back of that stand seen since the end of the war. Looks like they for some reason bothered to clear up the ivy growing up the back wall too.

[blueharmie]

So close to the pitch back then.totally different  era. 

The pl win makes up for the loss of filbert Street. Amazing 

[Nalis]

When I hear back to old football grounds referring to their standing sections as 'pens', makes me think of how little regard the authorities had of football fans back then, like they were housing animals or something.

[Izzy]

2 minutes ago, Nalis said:

When I hear back to old football grounds referring to their standing sections as 'pens', makes me think of how little regard the authorities had of football fans back then, like they were housing animals or something.

I suppose it did feel a bit like we were being herded around like cattle back then.

 

I guess the authorities were probably more interested in avoiding trouble than fans enjoying the match day experience.

 

Maybe we were treated like animals because a lot of fans acted like animals. 

 

I do miss the pens though. Great atmosphere and great banter between supporters but there were plenty of downsides too - getting trampled on if you fell over during a 'surge' and getting hit by coins spring to mind!

[coolhandfox]

Think I've got some dust in my eyes.

[HitchinFox]

Carling stand pics don't have any effect on me as I saw it as a "modern addition".

It is this image that gets me the most. I can pretty accurately figure out the spot I watched my first ever game from.