Like Father Like Son.....

[Pontprennau Bluebird]

https://www.thefootballhistoryboys.c...-like-son.html

[Majorblue]

Giant Canton Stand
I guess that is what they call journalistic license.
However, really enjoyed that as it sums up my memory of night time matches at N.P.

[NYCBlue]

Giant Canton Stand
I guess that is what they call journalistic license.
However, really enjoyed that as it sums up my memory of night time matches at N.P.

While never giant, it used to be much deeper back in the day.

[Random in Duquesa]

Also my first game , taken by my dad , stood in gap between grange end and Bob bank .
Hooked ever since .

[bobh]

Giant Canton Stand
I guess that is what they call journalistic license.
However, really enjoyed that as it sums up my memory of night time matches at N.P.

While never giant, it used to be much deeper back in the day.

Back 1970-ish, it was as bigf as the old gfrange end, but all seated. I think there was a bar at the back, too.

[splott parker]

Back 1970-ish, it was as bigf as the old gfrange end, but all seated. I think there was a bar at the back, too.

Canton Stand as big as the old Grange End?????

[BLUETIT]

Canton Stand as big as the old Grange End?????

To long in the BAR, me thinks

[the other bob wilson]

https://www.thefootballhistoryboys.c...-like-son.html

Thanks for that - a great read.

Although my first game was on a Saturday afternoon, it was after my second one, a night match, that I was really hooked.

[cardiff55]

My first two games were the last two League games from 1967/68 so i remember that period well. All of our players then were heroes to me. But I missed the game against Hereford though. I did see John Charles play in his testimonial match v Leeds at Ninian park in 1971/2.

[insider]

Great read I loved a night game at Ninian as a kid.
Brought back some lovely memories of me and my dad under those brilliant floodlights.

[splott parker]

My first game was our first back in division two after being relegated with Chelsea (Liverpool & Leyton Orient went up) ‘62/63 season. Newcastle at home, Ivor’s debut after leaving the Geordies, my son gave me a little present yesterday, the programme, which he’d picked up on eBay. Fortnight’s holiday to Majorca advertised in the centre pages, £40 all in, few bob in those days I s’pose......can’t even go at the moment

[xsnaggle]

Giant Canton Stand
I guess that is what they call journalistic license.
However, really enjoyed that as it sums up my memory of night time matches at N.P.

It was giant when you were 10 years old.

[xsnaggle]

Thanks for that - a great read.

Although my first game was on a Saturday afternoon, it was after my second one, a night match, that I was really hooked.

My first game was a Saturday night, the floodlights the huge crowd, walking home with my dad in the dark, all memories that live for ever!

[Pontprennau Bluebird]

Thanks for the feedback, glad people enjoyed the article.

[MacAdder]

"...shaven-headed monsters with giant boots, braces and silk scarves tied to their wrists..."
Yes I remember plenty of Bay City Rollers fans followed the city

Similar first memories of NP to my own.
We had the greenest grass I'd ever seen accentuated by our fantastic flood lights.

Good post thanks for sharing PB

[Maurice Swan]

Fading a bit......but attached is photo of John Charles and Gareth Williams on the trip to Huddersfield I think. Those were the days when fans could travel with players on the TRAIN!!

1962.002.jpg

[Pontprennau Bluebird]

Great photo. Do players still have card schools these days?

[life on mars]

Canton Stand as big as the old Grange End?????

I don't recall that ,old grange was a huge stand.

[BLUETIT]

Fading a bit......but attached is photo of John Charles and Gareth Williams on the trip to Huddersfield I think. Those were the days when fans could travel with players on the TRAIN!!

1962.002.jpg

Is that “BIG HAND” opposite John Charles ????

[splott parker]

I don't recall that ,old grange was a huge stand.

Exactly.

[MacAdder]

I don't recall that ,old grange was a huge stand.

It was if you were nine years old.

It also depends on when you were n8me years old.
The Canton used to be larger than the time NP was demolished.
It had quite an overhaul at some point what must have been late 70's early 80's I'd say, probably the latter if it was done when the Bluebirds club was demolished.

[splott parker]

It was if you were nine years old.

It also depends on when you were n8me years old.
The Canton used to be larger than the time NP was demolished.
It had quite an overhaul at some point what must have been late 70's early 80's I'd say, probably the latter if it was done when the Bluebirds club was demolished.

It was never larger, it remained the same size, none of it was ever demolished externally to reduce it. Some back rows of seats were most probably taken out to be replaced by those hospitality boxes and the room behind. Did you ever have the chance to stand right at the back of the old Grangetown End and the Canton Stand? Grangetown End dwarfed it.

[splott parker]

The roof was erected over the Grangetown End in 1928 and the End could hold 18,000 spectators. 40 odd years later I, and a few more on here no doubt, were among 18,000 + on there in the cup games against Arsenal & Leeds.

[Pontprennau Bluebird]

At the time the GE seemed like a cave, low lying slopes rising to, who knows what at the back.

[xsnaggle]

At the time the GE seemed like a cave, low lying slopes rising to, who knows what at the back.

Here be dragons!!!