sidcow Posted June 22, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2019 5 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said: Bloody hell that is rough as. Yeah, people moan about the appearance of the North Stand. Would probably have been a lot better without the corrugated cladding above, probably hiding more red brick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_Evans Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 2 hours ago, sidcow said: Yeah, people moan about the appearance of the North Stand. Would probably have been a lot better without the corrugated cladding above, probably hiding more red brick. Indeed. The roof was a 1960s replacement for the original, with the original stand remaining underneath. There was also somebody remodelling of the seating areas as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 22, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Stephen_Evans said: Indeed. The roof was a 1960s replacement for the original, with the original stand remaining underneath. There was also somebody remodelling of the seating areas as well. I expect it was considered modern and sleek at the time and original rounded roof seen as old fashioned. So much beauty was destroyed in the 60's in the name of modernity. Edited June 22, 2019 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 On 20/06/2019 at 23:01, sidcow said: Anyone else got a Holte Ends last stand certificate? I'll have to try dig it out from God knows where and take a photo. My grandad has it in the loft with his thousands of other programmes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Does anyone know where we got our colours from? I know , but be interesting to see how many others know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIVillan Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 On 23/06/2019 at 07:55, Rugeley Villa said: Does anyone know where we got our colours from? I know , but be interesting to see how many others know. A Pub Floor up in Edinburgh from what I can remember. Tiles of Claret and Blue and they were considered looking good together. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 1 hour ago, NIVillan said: A Pub Floor up in Edinburgh from what I can remember. Tiles of Claret and Blue and they were considered looking good together. We adopted the colours of Rangers(Blue) and Hearts(Claret) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raver50032 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 13 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: We adopted the colours of Rangers(Blue) and Hearts(Claret) To this day, Hearts are my Scottish club tbh, with an unrestricted apology to Hibs given the SJM linkage over the last 12 months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 I’ve always liked Hearts . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid4ever Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 14 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: I’ve always liked Hearts . I prefer kidneys for my offal, none of those hearts. GGTTH. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIVillan Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 7 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said: We adopted the colours of Rangers(Blue) and Hearts(Claret) Im just retelling the story told by the Guy doing the Villa Park tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted June 27, 2019 Moderator Share Posted June 27, 2019 12 minutes ago, NIVillan said: Im just retelling the story told by the Guy doing the Villa Park tour. I've heard your story too - I think it's the most common of the origin stories and the one most likely to be true. I've never heard the Hearts/Rangers thing before. Although it's here: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-kits-claret-strip-14463052 Quote Villa were the first club to wear claret and blue and according to Tony Matthews the theme was a Scottish influence, combining the maroon of Hearts and the blue of Rangers, with the Scottish lion rampant included in the badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unused Sub Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 On 10/06/2019 at 20:38, sidcow said: I was always under the impression that the end where The North Stand now sits was nothing more than a grassy bank before, but that programme cover suggests something more akin to a smaller Holte End. Also what was it called before it was The North Stand? Here's a few photo's of the old Witton End just as building work started on the North Stand in the mid 70's 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post S-Platt Posted July 29, 2019 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted July 29, 2019 Villa Boy on YouTube is a must if you want to see history! This is amazing 1947 in Colour! 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratvillan Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 It's a strange one deciding what was good from the past and what wasn't in terms of villa park. We all have a period of time where it was our villa park. I remember the holte with the big barrier gap down the middle, and hated when it became all seating. The north stand is awful but is massively better than what it replaced, the problem was in that period most buildings by today's standards are dated. I'm in the minority. I'd love a new ground, in the same place.(we have moved before) But modern. The same way that the trinity was modern when it was built. I've seen enough grand designs to see how the old and new can be integrated. () Imagine a 21st century design with a focus on our 19th century history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I'd heard that our original colours were chocolate brown and sky blue but when they reordered the shirts the next season there was some sort of cock up at the tailors and they came back claret and blue,which they preferred and kept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_Evans Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 A rather quirky question for anyone old enough to remember: On which side was the home dressing room in the old Trinity Road Stand? I always thought it was pitchside of the corridor, i.e. its windows looked out over the pitch in the Trinity Road/North Stand corner. I thought that was what I remembed from a tour in 1999, but perhaps the memory plays tricks. But I am reading "Encounters of the Third Kind" which includes photographs taken inside the home dressing room after the 1970 League Cup semi-final against Manchester United. The windows are too large to have been the pitchside ones and match windows on the exterior of the old Trinity. So that would put the home dressing room on the opposite side of the corridor. I suppose the dressing rooms could have been switched over at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 23/06/2019 at 07:54, Rugeley Villa said: My grandad has it in the loft with his thousands of other programmes. I was there but I don’t recall a certificate, must have been in the program. It was a wonderful and emotional day. The Holte will always be special in whatever form it’s in, but that old place...... I’ve got to go I think the wife must be cooking onions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 10, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 10, 2020 Oops sorry, thought I was in the Christian Benteke II thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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