Filbert Street demolition pictures

[RoboFox]

11 minutes ago, kenny said:

The newer application does confirm it will be a copy. I think the original one said they were re-siting the original.

Shame. Probably ended up as someone's driveway. 

[kenny]

8 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Shame. Probably ended up as someone's driveway. 

Probably different developers. It will probably turn up on ebay one day when someone finds it in a yard or lock-up.

 

It happens quite often with historical items 'saved for later'.

[Muzzy_no7]

The Carling stand and double decker really were absolutely class.

 

Imagine if we’d brought the housing at the back of the two sheds and developed them into a single tier wrapping round😍.

 

It could’ve been so beautiful. 

[Greg2607]

very fond memories of playing at Filbert street as a Teenager. It was even shown on the local cable TV channel! 

[sylofox]

I hate looking at those pics. Feel like my child hood and teens were destroyed.

[los dedos]

1 hour ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

The Carling stand and double decker really were absolutely class.

 

Imagine if we’d brought the housing at the back of the two sheds and developed them into a single tier wrapping round😍.

 

It could’ve been so beautiful. 

Liverpool did that there's no reason why we couldn't. I posted this on another thread a while back . I'd imagine we'd of also eventually redeveloped the Double decker too 

Edited 3 September 2025 by los dedos

[grobyfox1990]

5 hours ago, Bilo said:

Even the walk up to it feels sterile. Gone are the terraced houses, characterful pubs and pie & mash shops. Instead you walk through a Westfield surrounded by soulless chain restaurants. Dire.

That's where you're going wrong! You can hit the blind beggar,  half moon spoons, divert off the mile end road to the lord tredagar, back onto the road for little driver and the bow bells, no.25 into Stratford, get off at the carpenters estate and smuggle into the carpenter's arms for a swift one without opening your mouth and then straight to the away end. No need to see Westfield! 

[Ryanlcfc3]

Also, if anyone has pictures of their own of the Filbert Street being demolished, please post on here.

[sylofox]

We may have had our most successful period at the KP. But as a fan on the terraces Filbert St was way more fun.

 

I'd take that back in a heart beat.

[PhillippaT]

2 hours ago, grobyfox1990 said:

That's where you're going wrong! You can hit the blind beggar,  half moon spoons, divert off the mile end road to the lord tredagar, back onto the road for little driver and the bow bells, no.25 into Stratford, get off at the carpenters estate and smuggle into the carpenter's arms for a swift one without opening your mouth and then straight to the away end. No need to see Westfield! 

Time for a pre-match montage...

[Spudulike]

53 minutes ago, sylofox said:

We may have had our most successful period at the KP. But as a fan on the terraces Filbert St was way more fun.

 

I'd take that back in a heart beat.

Depends which version you'd take back. My earliest memories are of the old Main Stand and pre-pens in the Spion Kop. That was even before the boxes and orange seats on the Filbert Street end.

 

Filbert Street had been losing it's character season after season until it just wasn't the same by the end. Even to the point that I felt that we'd lost it way before demolition. I wasn't massively upset by the end, especially when the generic, soulless Carling Stand came down.

 

It had served it's time and we are still based in our traditional neighbourhood.

[Winstonthedog]

Most new grounds have that souless feeling , atmosphere is never overwhelming.... teams were afraid to visit Filbert St... as it was intimidating to say the least ... worth 10 points a season alone 

[Jerryking]

Many fond memories…they least of which was being pushed down several tiers of the Kop when we scored 😂😂

[Wymsey]

Is the old scoreboard still working?..

[HankMarvin]

9 hours ago, Nolucklcfc said:

It’s difficult when you leave the first home. West Ham fans have never and probably won’t ever fully recover from it. 

I guess it depends on the subsequent success, I’m don’t suppose Arsenal fans are too concerned and Man City fans, even though technically they were their 2nd homes. But not like anyone around long enough now

[Vlad the Fox]

15 hours ago, Winstonthedog said:

Most new grounds have that souless feeling , atmosphere is never overwhelming.... teams were afraid to visit Filbert St... as it was intimidating to say the least ... worth 10 points a season alone 

I can remember Harry Redknapp saying on footy focus when I was a kid that Filbert Street was the most intimidating ground for him to go to. 
 

The dug out was in the stand (pre carling stand) you could stick your head in and hurl abuse at the players and manager, and I lost count the amount of times I saw the corrugated plastic on top of the dug out get smashed when someone would be smashing their fist on top of it. 

[AKCJ]

15 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

I guess it depends on the subsequent success, I’m don’t suppose Arsenal fans are too concerned and Man City fans, even though technically they were their 2nd homes. But not like anyone around long enough now

I've said it before but I think we were unlucky in that Filbert Street became uninhabitable too early.

 

We wouldn't get one of these flat packed 30k stadiums if we were designing a new ground now. It feels as though clubs have learned from the mistakes made by us, Southampton, Derby, Coventry etc.

 

[Lionator]

17 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

I guess it depends on the subsequent success, I’m don’t suppose Arsenal fans are too concerned and Man City fans, even though technically they were their 2nd homes. But not like anyone around long enough now

By the time they’d left Maine Road, it had already been redeveloped into a shell of what it previously was so I don’t think they missed it that much. 
 

The problem is that the best grounds were always the ones most likely to be inappropriate for modern times. Filbert street, baseball ground, Dell etc. Fratton park is the only one I can think of where redevelopment has been done well. 

[purpleronnie]

The problem with new builds is older grounds had fans who went for decades in same spot every week, and most grounds had an 'end' where the vocal fans would go.  As soon as a new ground is built (in england) everyone gets spread out, the clubs never create 'an end' for those vocal fans, quite often they do everything they can to stop this happening.

 

All the newer stadiums in places like germany alwasy have one end for the ultras so often new stadiums there are just as noisy as the old ones.

Edited 5 September 2025 by purpleronnie

[Double Decker]

That picture of the decker being carved up is almost hard to look at. Just an amazing era.

[Corky]

11 hours ago, AKCJ said:

I've said it before but I think we were unlucky in that Filbert Street became uninhabitable too early.

 

We wouldn't get one of these flat packed 30k stadiums if we were designing a new ground now. It feels as though clubs have learned from the mistakes made by us, Southampton, Derby, Coventry etc.

 

Yeah, leaving Filbert St wasn't the issue. The drab nature of the current one is.

[1972 Fox]

On 03/09/2025 at 18:52, Wymsey said:

Is the old scoreboard still working?..

Only when it's not raining.

[1972 Fox]

On 03/09/2025 at 18:52, Jerryking said:

Many fond memories…they least of which was being pushed down several tiers of the Kop when we scored 😂😂

And also memories of Chelsea and West Ham fans regularly causing havoc by entering pens 2, 3 & 4 in large numbers.

 

Most notably Chelsea on Easter Saturday 1980. Scary violence that day in and outside the kop and in the city centre.

[sharpylcfc]

I really do miss Filbert Street. Really wish we could of just stayed there and expanded. 

[SK3Blue]

Still miss the place 25 years on.