Filbert Street - The Legendary Home of Leicester City Football Club

[Freesolo]

Some great memories played out to the sound of Kasabian.

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Filbert-Way-life-10-decades-photos-Leicester-City/story-26349101-detail/story.html#Y1stBEqrguQlzDl7.01

 

Yea some great memories of Filbert Street and the Leicester Fans through the decades, Them big high 10 foot fences that used to be in old grounds when there was still standing scare the shit out of me! You look like you're being treated like cattle.

[dayday]

Anybody manage to get something from the old ground?,I have a seat,a workmate sold it to me for £20.

[SpacedX]

Upstairs in the double decker wasn't penned as far as I know.

No, it was pretty much unsegregated seating which is what I'm saying and why it continually bred trouble. From out of the penned Kop enclosures below the noise was incredible but you could also hear the clatter of the coins on the mesh. 

[Fatbloke]

So glad I got to watch football in such a traditional football stadium with a real hostile atmosphere inside of it growing up. I genuinely miss Filbert Street, like a lot.

Any chance of re posting this pic without the cross and arrow ?

[Fatbloke]

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this one I mean

Edited 19 June 2015 by Fatbloke

[4everfox]

Any chance of re posting this pic without the cross and arrow ?

I just quoted someone else, I didn't post the picture.

[HitchinFox]

Any chance of re posting this pic without the cross and arrow ?

 

Here you go mate - the original.

[4everfox]

Here you go mate - the original.

Stunning that is.

[BoyJones]

Anybody manage to get something from the old ground?,I have a seat,a workmate sold it to me for £20.

My lad who lives in Glen Parva has a double decker sign he ripped off, screwed into the back wall of his house. His old lady not overly impressed!

[SemperEadem]

Some great posts in this today, well done chaps.

[Stadt]

My abiding Filbert street memory is...

[SpacedX]

Anybody manage to get something from the old ground?

A criminal record, a dissertation and a dose.

[4everfox]

My abiding Filbert street memory is...

I feel sorry for you, I really do. For me the games we had against Arsenal in the late nineties are matches I will never forget, I remember Savage deflecting the ball off the line with his face as if it was yesterday, ouch.

[Karljohn]

Can you imagine clappers at Filbert St..they would have been torn up for tickertape. People talk about the last 6 matches atmosphere but there were many times at Filbert St the noise was louder.

[davieG]

There were also many times when you could  see  and  hear  a pin drop.

[Wymsey]

Can't remember, but what was the land where the KP is now (before the new stadium was built)?

 

Edit: looking at the picture of the stadium comparisons, that electricity pylon area looks a total misfit to the area.

Edited 20 June 2015 by Wymeswold fox

[davieG]

Can't remember, but what was the land where the KP is now (before the new stadium was built)?

 

Edit: looking at the picture of the stadium comparisons, that electricity pylon area looks a total misfit to the area.

I think it was all part of East Midlands Electricity  before it was privatised so the pylons would have fitted in well.

[Papasmurf]

Anybody manage to get something from the old ground?,I have a seat,a workmate sold it to me for £20.

I have the back of my seat. Took it with me after the last home game.

[Smudge]

Can't remember, but what was the land where the KP is now (before the new stadium was built)?

 

Edit: looking at the picture of the stadium comparisons, that electricity pylon area looks a total misfit to the area.

 

 

I think it was all part of East Midlands Electricity  before it was privatised so the pylons would have fitted in well.

It was a coal fired electricity plant (1927)

Edited 20 June 2015 by Smudge

[Jam]

That photo is amazing. Going to show that my grandad. He was born the year prior to this being taken.

Thanks for posting!

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

No, it was pretty much unsegregated seating which is what I'm saying and why it continually bred trouble. From out of the penned Kop enclosures below the noise was incredible but you could also hear the clatter of the coins on the mesh. 

Many happy hours in the "Double Decker" and the "Kop", prior to the erection of fencing. 

 

 

I never saw any trouble in the sixties. It took off in the seventies, and at it's possible worst in the eighties.

[Smudge]

That photo is amazing. Going to show that my grandad. He was born the year prior to this being taken.

Thanks for posting!

 

Beyond the power station and to the right of Filbert St, you can see the Aylestone Rd ground. It was used by the County between 1901-1946. It then became the home for the Electricity Company Cricket Club.

Edited 20 June 2015 by Smudge

[tylesta]

You couldn't beat the seg net view from sk1 was the best place in the ground. As for the pin dropping it was more louder in my era than lifeless.

Through the early 90s late 90s the ground could be electric even if we was losing you could hear the noise from past the woodgate adventure playground!

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

Loved Filbert Street so much. The views weren't always great but there was just a magic about the place!

[Jam]

Beyond the power station and to the right of Filbert St, you can see the Aylestone Rd ground. It was used by the County between 1901-1946. It then became the home for the Electricity Company Cricket Club.

Ah! Ok. Thanks again