Bits of Belle Vue

[VivaRovers]

When Rovers left Belle Vue I think several bits of the ground found their way to other football clubs, for example I'm fairly certain either some seating or some crash barriers went to Retford United.

So two questions here...

1. Am I right?
2. Anyone know which clubs ended up with bits of Belle Vue?

[Bentley Bullet]

Didn't the dug-outs go to Retford Utd too?

[acacia94]

I've got 3 of the old wooden main stand drop down seats in my attic space Viva.

[Draytonian III]

I’ve got a plastic flip seat in my garden

[Usher wide.]

D’yknow, that last game in the league at Belle Vue against Colchester me & my brother stepped over the wall on the Popside & for the first time as supporters walked across the pitch.

Neither of us spoke, lost in our own thoughts knowing they would be shared on the car journey home to West Yorkshire.

But that day we could have picked ‘anything’ up. To all intents & purposes it was still the ‘Richardson era’ & his ‘ventriloquist’s dummy’ Mark Weaver was still ‘in charge’ so why didn’t we ‘help ourselves’ to some memorabilia that day?

Maybe because the love & possible loss of an institution that had bound you together for 30 years (now still going on some 25+ years later) was too hard to envisage to take some ‘token’ away with us. Yes, that was the reason.

[VivaRovers]

I've got 3 of the old wooden main stand drop down seats in my attic space Viva.

I’ve got a plastic flip seat in my garden

Cheers gents, but I was looking more specifically for football clubs that inherited bits rather than individuals.

For example, one of the original Belle Vue fllodlights (before they replaced them with more modern ones circa 1990) is at Rossington Main.

[curley]

The pull out tunnel is the only thing that went to Retford.

[GazLaz]

The pull out tunnel is the only thing that went to Retford.

You mean the Steve Evans protector?

[Belle_Vue]

I definitely remember the dug outs were there from my playing days. However don't think they ever got installed, seem to remember them being left in the carpark or to one side as scrap

[Oulu Rover]

I'm sure that I read somewhere that the Town End portakabins ended up at Hull KR's Craven Park.

[Silkscarf]

I'm sure that I read somewhere that the Town End portakabins ended up at Hull KR's Craven Park.

If you look at Craven Park on Google Street view or Google Earth there’s definitely at least one at the undeveloped end of the ground. Looks like ours anyway. Let’s have it back!

The whole ground looks a bit like Belle Vue from that viewpoint in the car park.

[donnievic]

D’yknow, that last game in the league at Belle Vue against Colchester me & my brother stepped over the wall on the Popside & for the first time as supporters walked across the pitch.

Neither of us spoke, lost in our own thoughts knowing they would be shared on the car journey home to West Yorkshire.

But that day we could have picked ‘anything’ up. To all intents & purposes it was still the ‘Richardson era’ & his ‘ventriloquist’s dummy’ Mark Weaver was still ‘in charge’ so why didn’t we ‘help ourselves’ to some memorabilia that day?

Maybe because the love & possible loss of an institution that had bound you together for 30 years (now still going on some 25+ years later) was too hard to envisage to take some ‘token’ away with us. Yes, that was the reason.

the last league game at belle vue was against Nottingham forest

[Chris Black come back]

That's the final game of the 1997/98 season against Colchester United when we got relegated from the league, and down to non league.

[German Rover]

There's a bit of the corrugated metal fence left from the back of the Rossington End. It's stood looking over the ASDA carpark. Noticed it a couple of months ago.

[Usher wide.]

There's a bit of the corrugated metal fence left from the back of the Rossington End. It's stood looking over the ASDA carpark. Noticed it a couple of months ago.

Could you get it for me German? I’ll pay postage & packaging of course to Wales. It would look lovely in our front room in front of the mother in laws chair.

[Barmby Rover]

I always wanted one of the stantions from the main stand, to out it into the new one. I spent that long moving backwards and forwards in my set to stare round it it was a bit of a shock to find it had gone.