Bob Bank toilets !!

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I used to refer to it as the 'al fresco pissoir'. I felt such a term brought an element of sophistication to the proceedings.

[The Bloop]

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I used to refer to it as the 'al fresco pissoir'. I felt such a term brought an element of sophistication to the proceedings.

Still have them in France, albeit not as exposed, and there's also one at the St Fagans museum aswell (not functional though)

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Still have them in France, albeit not as exposed, and there's also one at the St Fagans museum aswell (not functional though)

And who remembers 'Clochemerle'?

[bobh]

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And who remembers 'Clochemerle'?

I do

Wendy Hiller played the old lady who objected to , well, everything.


And Cyd Hayman MMmmm

[dml1954]

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What about the portacabins - god they were awful. Also only one ladies bog at either end of the bob bank. Anyone who pines for those days is mad.

[Ras Malai]

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the steam of other mens piss wafting into your face as you are undoing your zip.....

[splott parker]

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What about the portacabins - god they were awful. Also only one ladies bog at either end of the bob bank. Anyone who pines for those days is mad.

Exactly, it was well past it’s sell by date. It was getting more of a shithole & embarrassment season by season. Can never understand fans who seem to recall it as some sort of utopian cauldron. For its last 30 odd years (since the late 60s/early 70s), the atmosphere was mostly dire, the stand out moments stand out because of their infrequency. God knows where we’d be had we not moved across the car park.

[19bluebirds27]

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Thinking back to the History of Cardiff City Video that was out circa 1993 - narrated by Richard Shepard.

Imagine what the stadium would have been like over the years and today - if we had been given the open land we are on now originally.
Ninian Park was an old landfill site next to the railway sidings.

[sanctum of blue]

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Often had to stand aside as a stream of gold flowed down the bob bank, but sure warmed you up on a freezing January evening.

[life on mars]

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As there were so many of us rushing to get back to the game crammed in , it was easy to piss /splash on others sandals

[tforturton]

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Somewhere in the back of my mind, I have this memory of being at an away game years ago, where the urinals were in a concrete block like a pill box. There was a big opening in the wall above the trough (like a frameless window), so you could watch the game while relieving yourself. Did I imagine this, or does anyone else remember it?

[Geraint Pillock]

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Somewhere in the back of my mind, I have this memory of being at an away game years ago, where the urinals were in a concrete block like a pill box. There was a big opening in the wall above the trough (like a frameless window), so you could watch the game while relieving yourself. Did I imagine this, or does anyone else remember it?

Wasn't Penydarren Park like this? Possibly still is.

[tforturton]

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Someone else suggested Merthyr, so you may be right. Anyone else got any suggestions?

[delmbox]

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Some of you lot, if you're not reminiscing about how much better it was when you could get beaten up by teachers, you're wistfully remembering how nice it was to be covered in other men's piss

[The Bloop]

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Some of you lot, if you're not reminiscing about how much better it was when you could get beaten up by teachers, you're wistfully remembering how nice it was to be covered in other men's piss

Is that what fans mean when they reminisce about the golden years?