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Title: Last bit of Belle Vue standing.
Post by: German Rover on March 13, 2024, 09:02:34 pm
Was in Doncaster today and stopped in ASDA by the Dome, and noticed the metal sheet fence at the back of the away end is still there. It had Richarson out graffiti on it back in my youth.

Is that fence the last remaining bit of Belle Vue standing and in place? Or does someone who lives there got a bit of terracing in their back garden?
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Post by: Donnywolf on March 13, 2024, 09:08:59 pm
I think they are Semis and Detached but no Terraces  :coat:
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Post by: Dagenham Rover on March 13, 2024, 09:38:38 pm
 
I think they are Semis and Detached but no Terraces  :coat:

 :scarf:  :lol: That's funny

Title: Re: Last bit of Belle Vue standing.
Post by: roversdude on March 13, 2024, 10:15:41 pm
Town houses are the new terrace lol
If you look at some of the houses adjacent to the main road they have a nice little nod to our hallowed former home
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Post by: Herbert Anchovy on March 13, 2024, 10:16:51 pm
Good question. When I was last around that area a couple of years ago there was still quite a lot of rubble from the old pop side that had mounted up in between the houses and the road into the supermarket. I couldn’t see any evidence of terracing though. Wasn’t there a bloke who’d got one of the old turnstiles in his back garden who posted on here at one time?
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Post by: ForsolongaRover on March 14, 2024, 09:19:11 am
Just looked at it on Google Maps satellite view. I see they’ve named some of the roads after the parts of the old ground which is something. But fancy actually living in a house there! I think that would almost be a permanent spiritual experience.
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Post by: scawsby steve on March 14, 2024, 01:04:55 pm
Just looked at it on Google Maps satellite view. I see they’ve named some of the roads after the parts of the old ground which is something. But fancy actually living in a house there! I think that would almost be a permanent spiritual experience.

Absolutely, FR. Think of the lucky Arsenal fans that live in the apartment complex at Highbury. The huge white marble stands are still part of it, as they were listed.

Whenever I go to London, I always look across at it just before passing the Emirates.
Title: Re: Last bit of Belle Vue standing.
Post by: silent majority on March 14, 2024, 03:14:31 pm
The VSC lobbied the builders whilst it was still in the planning stages and gave them a list of names and ideas that we hoped they would include in the development.
Fortunately they obliged and the area pays tribute to what was a memorable stadium for a lot of us.
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Post by: WheatleyRover on March 14, 2024, 07:30:35 pm
The front apartments also have the Rovers badge on and the years 1922 to 2006.

Also the car park entrance barrier is still there and the old match advertisement board.
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Post by: NickDRFC on March 14, 2024, 08:11:17 pm
The VSC lobbied the builders whilst it was still in the planning stages and gave them a list of names and ideas that we hoped they would include in the development.
Fortunately they obliged and the area pays tribute to what was a memorable stadium for a lot of us.

I’ve always been really disappointed that there wasn’t any room to honour our last ever goalscorer there, Theo Street.
Title: Re: Last bit of Belle Vue standing.
Post by: roversdude on March 14, 2024, 08:49:43 pm
The VSC lobbied the builders whilst it was still in the planning stages and gave them a list of names and ideas that we hoped they would include in the development.
Fortunately they obliged and the area pays tribute to what was a memorable stadium for a lot of us.

I’ve always been really disappointed that there wasn’t any room to honour our last ever goalscorer there, Theo Street.
Or our former keeper Andy Rhodes
Title: Re: Last bit of Belle Vue standing.
Post by: ForsolongaRover on March 14, 2024, 10:36:53 pm
The VSC lobbied the builders whilst it was still in the planning stages and gave them a list of names and ideas that we hoped they would include in the development.
Fortunately they obliged and the area pays tribute to what was a memorable stadium for a lot of us.

I’ve always been really disappointed that there wasn’t any room to honour our last ever goalscorer there, Theo Street.
Or our former keeper Andy Rhodes

Give that the history of Belle Vue and those who served the club over the years extends way beyond either of these two latter day individuals and what sounds to me their relatively modest achievements, it was perhaps a good decision to simply memorialise the component parts of the ground.
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Post by: PDX_Rover on March 14, 2024, 11:28:26 pm
Or that French fella, Col de Sac
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Post by: roversdude on March 15, 2024, 12:31:11 am
Sure they all have a kitchen
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Post by: turnbull for england on March 15, 2024, 05:57:45 am
At least bit wasn't overdeveloped, you don't feel Crambed in
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Post by: Donnywolf on March 15, 2024, 10:26:13 am
Or that French fella, Col de Sac

Could cost a pretty Penny , especially if it had a Nichol fence and some Green space as well
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Post by: belton rover on March 15, 2024, 05:23:13 pm
Kids playing Kerbie Kane, Coppscotch and Simon Marbles in the street.
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Post by: MachoMadness on March 15, 2024, 06:19:25 pm
That Richardson Out graffiti was almost as iconic as the ground for me. Was there for ages, every time you went to Asda. Should've been preserved like a Banksy piece.