Photos of The Valley

kings hill addick

I can't help but think we missed a trick with all that space under the stand. Surely we could have build something in there - a lounge/bar or something.

These photos show just how much the club achieved during that decade!

bobmunro

kings hill addick said:

These photos show just how much the club achieved during that decade!

This, absolutely this!

We rose pheonix like from the ashes of the wilderness years - quite literally brings a tear to my eyes.

COYR!!!!!!

Friend Or Defoe

iaitch

Did Andy D'Urso call that game off?

ShootersHillGuru

God. That photo makes me feel old. I used to stand at that corner as a kid.

Hartleypete

ShootersHillGuru said:

God. That photo makes me feel old. I used to stand at that corner as a kid.

I did as well ;-)

Taxi_Lad

illichassavedit said:

Callumcafc said:

Sorry to dig up an old topic and this might sound a silly question to most on here but being born in 1992, I'm not 100% sure this is the old Valley. I found this picture online tagged "The Valley 1974" but obviously as the ground looks completely different nowadays I wanted to check.

Appreciate any help. Any other info would be brilliant as well... :-)

Historic photograph that, it was the last time the addicks were awarded a penalty.

certainly is historic if it is the 1974 Shrewsbury game! it was my debut! I remember my Dad explaining the offside rule by drawing in the windscreen mist when we got back to the car (a Zephyr 6)...... Jeez that makes me feel old!!!!!

limeygent

ShootersHillGuru said:

God. That photo makes me feel old. I used to stand at that corner as a kid.

Me too, on the wall, feet through the railings.

ShootersHillGuru

limeygent said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

God. That photo makes me feel old. I used to stand at that corner as a kid.

Me too, on the wall, feet through the railings.

Yep. Right at the front. Or perch on the crush barrier although it was quite an art.

limeygent

ShootersHillGuru said:

limeygent said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

God. That photo makes me feel old. I used to stand at that corner as a kid.

Me too, on the wall, feet through the railings.

Yep. Right at the front. Or perch on the crush barrier although it was quite an art.

limeygent

Sam Lawrie taking the corners....

limeygent

That floodlight pylon wasn't there when I started going.

Friend Or Defoe

limeygent said:

That floodlight pylon wasn't there when I started going.

Were they brightest in Europe or am I mistaken?

limeygent

Friend Or Defoe said:

limeygent said:

That floodlight pylon wasn't there when I started going.

Where they brightest in Europe or am I mistaken?

I don't remember them being that spectacular.

ShootersHillGuru

What year did the floods go in ?

east terrace peanuts

What memories....used to stand at the back of this near corner and then run round to the covered end for second half (even in those days they mostly played into the covered end second half). Back of the car park you can see refreshment bar...and to the left of that the gents, basically a wall to pee up against. The floods went in in 1962 I think and the first game was against Rotherham (without looking up)....stand corrected.

limeygent

I think it was 1961.

ShootersHillGuru

limeygent said:

I think it was 1961.

That was my first year of attending.

ShootersHillGuru

That wall we used to pee up was green. Never seen anything like it and the vision has stayed with me. Those were the days.

bazjonster

Fantastic thread,

limeygent

I used to catch the "Excursion" bus from Forest Hill, sometimes it was almost empty.

east terrace peanuts

east terrace peanuts said:

What memories....used to stand at the back of this near corner and then run round to the covered end for second half (even in those days they mostly played into the covered end second half). Back of the car park you can see refreshment bar...and to the left of that the gents, basically a wall to pee up against. The floods went in in 1962 I think and the first game was against Rotherham (without looking up)....stand corrected.

When I call it a refreshment bar.......I think it served Bovril and another brown liquid called tea, and if you were lucky....a Kit Kat!

ShootersHillGuru

Hot roasted chestnuts in Floyd Road. Percy Dalton peanut seller. Half time scores on the board in that corner IF you were lucky.

limeygent

I wonder what happened to all of those wooden rattles.

ross1

limeygent said:

I wonder what happened to all of those wooden rattles.

Somewhere in my loft, I still have one, used by my parents at both cup finals in the forties.

Redmidland

What great memories...my first game was as a five year old in 1961...me, my old man, my grandad and his brother - my uncle, always stood on the half-way line on the old East Terrace.....loved every minute of it....thanks for posting the photo....such memories!

soapy_jones

Friend Or Defoe said:

limeygent said:

That floodlight pylon wasn't there when I started going.

Were they brightest in Europe or am I mistaken?

Tallest I think.

limeygent

I was very lucky, I'd only been to a couple of Millwall games with my father, as he grew up a fan living in Peckham and all my school mates were Palace as I went to school in Sydenham. I just happened to see a billboard on a bus shelter for the excursion bus, decided to go, it turned out to be the 7-6 game with Huddersfield.

limeygent

ross1 said:

limeygent said:

I wonder what happened to all of those wooden rattles.

Somewhere in my loft, I still have one, used by my parents at both cup finals in the forties.

That's a treasure.

GlassHalfFull

Floodlights first used in September 1961 vs Rotherham.

Excellent thread. What a superb picture of The Valley in the snow.