Bank holiday weekend entertainment

[VivaRovers]

Some nostalgia to get you through the long weekend, in the form of the latest episode of the popular STAND podcast; podular STAND.

Episode 20 is the Belle Vue episode

Find out just how long those pot-holes were in the car-park... how one Pop Side turnstile was much more secure than the others... and the surprising location of the best vantage point in the ground.

You can listen via the above link, or you can find it anywhere you'd normally listen to a podcast.

[Chris Black come back]

Another very good listen. It really is a mystery to anyone who only saw Belle Vue from the late 80s onwards, where all those features went to. A bar at the back of the Pop Side. A stand behind the Rosso End. An away end that stretched all the way to the Pop Side. Was like a Tardis inside out.

[drfchound]

Yes, it was a proper old fashioned football ground.
A superb pitch to play on too.

[scawsby steve]

Another very good listen. It really is a mystery to anyone who only saw Belle Vue from the late 80s onwards, where all those features went to. A bar at the back of the Pop Side. A stand behind the Rosso End. An away end that stretched all the way to the Pop Side. Was like a Tardis inside out.

A stand behind the Rosso end? I can't ever remember that.

[Chris Black come back]

Town End!

[sheffield exile1]

Town End!

Think we are referring to the small wooden stand with a clock on it. Shilling to transfer in if I remember?

[scawsby steve]

Town End!

Think we are referring to the small wooden stand with a clock on it. Shilling to transfer in if I remember?

Yes. Had to be pulled down after the Bradford fire.

[drfchound]

Town End!

Think we are referring to the small wooden stand with a clock on it. Shilling to transfer in if I remember?

Yes, we used to call it the bob stand.

[StocktonRover]

Town End!

Think we are referring to the small wooden stand with a clock on it. Shilling to transfer in if I remember?

Yes, we used to call it the bob stand.

I knew it as the cow shed?

[Darren]

Cow shed too mate.

[Draytonian III]

Cow 🐄 shed

[Danmckay456]

Some nostalgia to get you through the long weekend, in the form of the latest episode of the popular STAND podcast; podular STAND.

Episode 20 is the Belle Vue episode

Find out just how long those pot-holes were in the car-park... how one Pop Side turnstile was much more secure than the others... and the surprising location of the best vantage point in the ground.

You can listen via the above link, or you can find it anywhere you'd normally listen to a podcast.

Have you got episode 1 have them all of the podcasts except one

[Filo]

Town End!

Think we are referring to the small wooden stand with a clock on it. Shilling to transfer in if I remember?

Cowshed

[StocktonRover]

Town End!

Think we are referring to the small wooden stand with a clock on it. Shilling to transfer in if I remember?

Cowshed
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Town End!

Think we are referring to the small wooden stand with a clock on it. Shilling to transfer in if I remember?

Cowshed

I remember going in there with my parents as a kid.
At a corner, free kick or other moment of excitement, just about everyone would kick their heels against the wooden structure and make a right racket.

[essexrover]

Town End!

Think we are referring to the small wooden stand with a clock on it. Shilling to transfer in if I remember?

Yes, we used to call it the bob stand.

I knew it as the cow shed?

Me too 👍

[Donnywolf]

Sneaking in and drumming with back of shoes on wooden banches at times of high excitement (e.g. Corners)

Forget Lincolns air raid siren - THIS was the way to go

[VivaRovers]

Have you got episode 1 have them all of the podcasts except one

Hi Dan, yeah for some reason when I synched us up our RSS feed, our first episode wasn't carried over to iTunes or any of the other podcast providers. It is available online though. They're all linked of the fanzine website, but it's probably easiest to scroll through our Soundcloud

podular STAND on soundcloud

[VivaRovers]

Another very good listen. It really is a mystery to anyone who only saw Belle Vue from the late 80s onwards, where all those features went to. A bar at the back of the Pop Side. A stand behind the Rosso End. An away end that stretched all the way to the Pop Side. Was like a Tardis inside out.

Cheers CBCB, glad you enjoyed it. They're fun to record, but a bit of a pain to edit sometimes, so good to know they're appreciated.

Hope others have enjoyed it, or might try giving it a listen today.

[swintonrover]

Glen, to put your mind at ease, I was one of the folk who stood at the side of the main stand (towards the rosso end). I was a kid and it guaranteed being able to see without anyone stood in front of me, as nobody else stood there.

[Plumbster]

One of my first ever matches I was stood on that little bit of terrace with my Dad- Mansfield came as league leaders, it was early 70s so Rovers were down near the bottom of the old 4th division, only about 7000 crowd but the whole place seemed to be rocking and Rovers go and win 4-3. Priceless memories

[Danmckay456]

Have you got the first episode I can’t find it o. Podcasts on iTunes

[tyke1962]

Genuine question as an away fan standing at the Rossington End .

Did the Rossington End shrink ?

I seem to remember it was a much larger open terracing in the late 70s than on my final visit to Belle Vue in 2006 .

Could be time playing tricks on me mind you .

[Bentley Bullet]

The kop used to be much higher until around the '80s when it was vastly reduced. The ground once held 37,000 and at the end it held about 5,000!
 

[Bentley Bullet]

Before it was reduced......

[Bentley Bullet]

At the end......

[tyke1962]

Before it was reduced......

Thanks for that Bentley , I remember going in September 78 and we had a really good following that day , probably 4 or 5 thousand and it was full but comfortable .

On my last visit it seemed a bit tighter with only 1800 tickets .

[VivaRovers]

Genuine question as an away fan standing at the Rossington End .

Did the Rossington End shrink ?

I seem to remember it was a much larger open terracing in the late 70s than on my final visit to Belle Vue in 2006 .

Could be time playing tricks on me mind you .

If only someone could've done a podcast, that might've answered questions like this, or whether the stand at the Town End was known as the Cow Shed, or why it was that said stand was pulled down, or what the record attendance might once have been.

[VivaRovers]

Have you got the first episode I can’t find it o. Podcasts on iTunes

Hi Dan, I answered this further up the thread. You won't find it on iTunes as it didn't cary over when we synched our RSS feed, and that's not something I can fix.

You can however find it on our website, or on the podular STAND soundcloud page

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Cowshed. Thought we'd really gone up in the world when we got the Barker & Wigfall signage and The Clock!

[Bentley Bullet]

The stand with the Barker and Wigfall sign and clock was a replacement for the original stand that burned down in the late '60s.