Anyone remember the Boys Enclosure In the old Grange End?

[Maurice Maeterlinck]

Always loved the boys enclosure in the old wooden Grange End at NP. My dad was always working and couldn’t take me to football but the boys enclosure meant it didn’t matter. I could go with other school friends which, to be honest, was much better anyway.

Told my youngest about it, an 11 year old, and he would love it if they had one at the CCS.

[cardiff55]

Yes got pulled out of there due to crushing in the Arsenal FA Cup game in January 1969. 55,000 there that day.

[splott parker]

Not wooden down that low in The Grangetown End, it was the old compact ash terracing. Remember the old black fella in a trench coat, fag permanently hanging out of the side of his gob with his son sat on the long crash bar with the chain link fence below it (which separated the boys enclosure from the terracing behind).

[BLUETIT]

Not wooden down that low in The Grangetown End, it was the old compact ash terracing. Remember the old black fella in a trench coat, fag permanently hanging out of the side of his gob with his son sat on the long crash bar with the chain link fence below it (which separated the boys enclosure from the terracing behind).

Didn’t take us long to GRADUATE to the railway sleepers at the back, did it Steve

[splott parker]

Didn’t take us long to GRADUATE to the railway sleepers at the back, did it Steve

Oh no, couldn’t wait to get up the back

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

Always loved the boys enclosure in the old wooden Grange End at NP. My dad was always working and couldn’t take me to football but the boys enclosure meant it didn’t matter. I could go with other school friends which, to be honest, was much better anyway.

Told my youngest about it, an 11 year old, and he would love it if they had one at the CCS.

Night games in the winter in the Grange End, now that's atmosphere!

[NYCBlue]

I remember it. kind of. It was like a cage in the middle towards the front right?

[life on mars]

I remember the wooden upper. god it used to bounce with energy and still of piss

[Joe Gillis]

Not wooden down that low in The Grangetown End, it was the old compact ash terracing. Remember the old black fella in a trench coat, fag permanently hanging out of the side of his gob with his son sat on the long crash bar with the chain link fence below it (which separated the boys enclosure from the terracing behind).

I remember the dad & son

[BLUETIT]

I remember the wooden upper. god it used to bounce with energy and STILLof piss

I don’t think we used to distill the piss

[Des Parrot]

Yes got pulled out of there due to crushing in the Arsenal FA Cup game in January 1969. 55,000 there that day.

Dear god, my feet never touched the floor that day & I can't remember seeing much of the game. Just stuck in a heaving swaying mass of tall noisy people smelling of stale beer (no lager in them days). The game that got me hooked as a City fan.

[BLUETIT]

Dear god, my feet never touched the floor that day & I can't remember seeing much of the game. Just stuck in a heaving swaying mass of tall noisy people smelling of stale beer (NO LAGER IN THEM DAYS) . The game that got me hooked as a City fan.

I think you’ll find a lot of the younger element, were drinking this :——

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carling_Black_Label

[splott parker]

I think you’ll find a lot of the younger element, were drinking this :——

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carling_Black_Label

We were the younger element then....personally I think any lager is a dreadful drink and did in those distant days, it would have been Brains Dark for me then.

[BLUETIT]

We were the younger element then....personally I think any lager is a dreadful drink and did in those distant days, it would have been Brains Dark for me then.

Same here, unless it was a shitty pint, then it would be a Brown Top, or who remembers the old pint bottles of Brain's Brown Ale. ??