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What was the capacity of the old east stand at The Valley?

garfield
garfield Posts: 336
in General Charlton
To settle an argument with a City fan, he thinks the Kippax at Maine Road was bigger with a capacity of 35,000, I thought the east stand held 40,000 plus? Great win yesterday, congratulations.

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  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,636
    0
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,267
    edited May 2019
    40k +

    PS thanks

    PPS arguing with yourself is the first sign of madness
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,495
    The figure of 45000 was commonly used.....incidentally it wasn’t a stand it was an open terrace....biggest in the country for quite a while.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,663
    garfield said:
    To settle an argument with a City fan, he thinks the Kippax at Maine Road was bigger with a capacity of 35,000, I thought the east stand held 40,000 plus? Great win yesterday, congratulations.
    East Terrace at its peak probably did hold around 40K although the South Terrace (where the Jimmy Seed is now) was pretty large too before they built the Tower Block Charlton House or whatever it's called.

    75,031 was an 'official' attendance. Those that were there, sadly no longer with us, strongly maintained there were even more actually present that day.
  • garfield
    garfield Posts: 336
    Thanks all :)
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,054
    "Following the stand extension, the police set a new capacity figure in December 1950 of 73,500. This comprised of 26,000 behind the south goal at one shilling and threepence, 32,000 on the East Terrace at one and six, and 12,600 behind the north goal and on the terracing adjacent to the stand at two shillings, plus the 2,900 seats. Subsequently the limit fell to 67,000..."

    Everett, R. (1991), Battle for The Valley, VoTV, London, p45.

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