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Post by andyboothscat on Apr 2, 2019 21:56:11 GMT 1
I was sat in Starbucks earlier looking out at where the old ground used to be and it really didn’t seem 25 years ago since we were last there. I thought to myself about how easily we’d all be able to slip back into our old routines if we had one more chance to go back.
Indulge me for a minute or two. For one game only, on Saturday v Leicester we are back at Leeds Road. Where are you going, who with?
Up in the corner of the terrace for me, near the snack bar with my Dad. Not sure he’d be able to stand anymore but I’ll prop him up!
I might even stretch to a programme so that I can find out the half time scores!!
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Post by brodie81 on Apr 2, 2019 21:59:09 GMT 1
Crescent and market tavern for beer
Probably go in cowshed as it was brilliant hearing
The terrace HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUU....
Il take r kid with me.
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Post by hypotenuse on Apr 2, 2019 22:00:09 GMT 1
I was sat in Starbucks earlier looking out at where the old ground used to be and it really didn’t seem 25 years ago since we were last there. I thought to myself about how easily we’d all be able to slip back into our old routines if we had one more chance to go back. Indulge me for a minute or two. For one game only, on Saturday v Leicester we are back at Leeds Road. Where are you going, who with? Up in the corner of the terrace for me, near the snack bar with my Dad. Not sure he’d be able to stand anymore but I’ll prop him up! I might even stretch to a programme so that I can find out the half time scores!! Half way up the East terrace near Cowshed end. I’d take my dad too but sadly he’s no longer with us. |
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Post by arry11 on Apr 2, 2019 22:06:59 GMT 1
I was sat in Starbucks earlier looking out at where the old ground used to be and it really didn’t seem 25 years ago since we were last there. I thought to myself about how easily we’d all be able to slip back into our old routines if we had one more chance to go back. Indulge me for a minute or two. For one game only, on Saturday v Leicester we are back at Leeds Road. Where are you going, who with? Up in the corner of the terrace for me, near the snack bar with my Dad. Not sure he’d be able to stand anymore but I’ll prop him up! I might even stretch to a programme so that I can find out the half time scores!! A great spot to watch the game from and you could chat and mingle with many different groups of supporters great memories. |
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Apr 2, 2019 22:56:44 GMT 1
Main Terrace near floodlights at Cowshed end for me. I’d go with my 2 mates and we would call into the old Town shop to look at the old programs and buy a new silk  before the game. Fish and Chips from the Elite on way home. Love to do that for one more time! |
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Post by mrbluesky on Apr 2, 2019 23:07:18 GMT 1
We’d be enroute from Middlestown leaving at 2pm , myself 2 brothers and our Dad who is sadly no longer with us . We would park up in the small industrial yard behind the open end and enter the magnificent stadium via the east terrace , join our mates halfway down the terrace just right of the centre circle....... I can smell the pipe tobacco now 👌
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Apr 2, 2019 23:11:42 GMT 1
Top of the vast terrace....more towards the away fans to bait them.....second half head to the shed to suck the ball in.
I am there with all the Townies, any one of a 100 lads....all the fellas who drink in the centre.
Pubs like the Crown, Welly, Royal, Plumbers, Unicorn.
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Apr 2, 2019 23:18:54 GMT 1
Are we allowed to get a meat & tatie pie from the corner shop?
(buying one in the ground was a luxury for me...)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 6:41:12 GMT 1
Meet at Royal Oak in Paddock for a couple, then a lift down into Town, park up in The Ship...on to Frying Pan and wander down to the ground...main terrace half way up, towards the away end, same barrier every game...then at half time or twenty mins in to second half move down to the other end.
Back up to The Ship, whilst wondering how the big monk fella has managed to get The Green Un with all its printed reports on the games matches out...then on to Sher E Punjab.
Not 100% sure how I get home.
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Post by andyboothscat on Apr 3, 2019 7:01:29 GMT 1
Are we allowed to get a meat & tatie pie from the corner shop? (buying one in the ground was a luxury for me...) So long as it’s not from the business park - that’s disappeared for a week! |
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Apr 3, 2019 7:31:17 GMT 1
Leave the old house on Leeds Road, walk on up to the ground, on the East Terrace, low down, piss like a race horse at half time on the back wall for old times sake, move on towards The Cowshed for the second half, maybe sit on one of the concrete blocks on the bottom of the crush barriers.
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Post by workshyfop on Apr 3, 2019 7:52:14 GMT 1
Mixed emotions reading that, as with most of the other posters, the joy of being able to stand on the terrace again but without my dad and grandad would be really sad. Happy days, but long gone. I often like to imagine their reaction to this season and some of the players when I’m in need of cheering up!
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Post by Mav on Apr 3, 2019 7:56:02 GMT 1
Get the bus from outside the Mirfield cinema, think it was the 262.
Get off by the sports centre, walk down, like Oti top of the east terrace and cowshed for the second half. Fish and chip crisp things at HT from a kiosk. Back home on the bus having loved every minute of my day along with the 5 thousand or so others.
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Post by DeepSpace on Apr 3, 2019 8:11:37 GMT 1
Bus into town.
Chinese at the Mei Wah on the Ring Road.
Down to Ricky's, or if we're going further back, the Waggon & Horses as it was when I first started going.
Meet the lads for a few pints, darts, pool, pork pie.
First half at the back of the main stand, move into the Cowshed for the 2nd half; the only two parts of the ground I ever really spent much time in (I never once sat down for a game & only did the open end once or twice for reasons I can't even remember).
Who would I take? Only one answer to that...my lad. He was born in 1994 & never experienced the old place. I'd give anything to spend an afternoon on the terraces there with him & I suspect he would!
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Post by detox on Apr 3, 2019 8:11:59 GMT 1
Call in at The Broadway for a couple..walk down Leeds Rd...enter east terrace at the cowshed corner and stand by a crash barrier half way up level with 6 yard box.. Have my tanner ready for the pork pie man at half time...throw him your tanner and he'd lob a pie right into your hand from 40 yards away... 2nd half I'd meander down towards the open end (if we were playing that way). After the game, get a copy of the Examiner from the mobile print unit by the main stand and check out the scores/tables ,read the match report , then look in the stop press for local footy results...Walk back down to town the middle of Leeds Rd with everybody else and call for a pint at the pack Horse mews....
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Post by clayers on Apr 3, 2019 8:26:08 GMT 1
Aged 18, id call my mate from my uncles petrol station where i had a Saturday morning job on westbourne road to see if he was going, pick him up in my mums mini, park up and head to the ground. Dependent on the game, main terrace or cowshed, plenty of room to move into either usually back then early 80s.
I'd take my lad, born in 2009 and who only really knows the championship and Premier League. Just one game, a mid table game against another bang average 80s team. The smells sights sounds and the togetherness, usually in adversity would what I'd want him to experience. Love the John Smith's and its memories for us, but it's not Leeds Road.
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Post by digs on Apr 3, 2019 8:55:23 GMT 1
remember pissing down the banking next to the pie stall at the back of the popular stand
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Post by space hardware on Apr 3, 2019 8:55:30 GMT 1
I used to go with my dad and younger sister. We'd catch a bus from Lindley to Birkby, can't remember the number though (392?). It dropped us somewhere near The Slubber's Arms so we'd walk from there down to the newsagents near to the St Andrews second hand car place. We'd each get a bag of crisps to eat at half time. My dad used to take us to stand in The Cowshed which, when we started going together in the early/mid 80s, was pretty empty most of the time. Used to stand at the same barrier every match, halfway up, just to the left of the goal. We'd finish the day off with a visit to Chad's Chippy in town then get the bus back to Lindley. Would be great to do it with my lad now, although I don't think he'd appreciate standing up for that long  |
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Post by nicovaesen on Apr 3, 2019 9:10:55 GMT 1
I was sat in Starbucks earlier looking out at where the old ground used to be and it really didn’t seem 25 years ago since we were last there. I thought to myself about how easily we’d all be able to slip back into our old routines if we had one more chance to go back. Indulge me for a minute or two. For one game only, on Saturday v Leicester we are back at Leeds Road. Where are you going, who with? Up in the corner of the terrace for me, near the snack bar with my Dad. Not sure he’d be able to stand anymore but I’ll prop him up! I might even stretch to a programme so that I can find out the half time scores!! Other coffee outlets are available |
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Post by andyboothscat on Apr 3, 2019 13:20:26 GMT 1
Mixed emotions reading that, as with most of the other posters, the joy of being able to stand on the terrace again but without my dad and grandad would be really sad. Happy days, but long gone. I often like to imagine their reaction to this season and some of the players when I’m in need of cheering up! Absolutely get what you mean with regards to absent friends though it wasn't my intention. I particularly like the posts on here of people who would like to take their kids/people who had never experienced the old ground. For me (being 14 in 1994) the old ground was very much where I watched football with my Dad and Grandad whereas JSS where I went with my friends. Think my Dad has only been to new ground once and my Grandad never made it having been many many hundreds of times to old ground. Perhaps that's what I would prefer to experience again. |
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Post by conman on Apr 3, 2019 13:26:37 GMT 1
Crescent and market tavern for beer Probably go in cowshed as it was brilliant hearing The terrace HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUU.... Il take r kid with me. Me too Brodie, me too.. |
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Post by iangreaves on Apr 3, 2019 14:49:08 GMT 1
Long terrace, half way up in line with centre spot, with mates. Would be nice to take my lad - just one time. Happy days.
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Post by Stewpot on Apr 3, 2019 17:43:04 GMT 1
If my mate was driving then a couple in The Ash Brow, or if on bus get off the old 64 Brighouse to Huddersfield at Dewhirst Road, Fartown. Walk down to ground via Red Doles Rd, even better if it was Easter and the fair was on.
Take up position on the east terrace, just to the left of the halfway line and below the path which ran along the middle of the stand. As others have said draw in the unique aromas of the ICI works, and pipe/fag tobacco wafting across the ground.
Oh, and the days of teams running out on their own, so you could cheer the Town and boo the opposition. None of this modern day stuff of meandering out together, then shaking hands along the line - nah!
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Post by 1876tom on Apr 3, 2019 19:42:15 GMT 1
Love this. It would be great to do it one more time. To stand in the same spot and see who is still around and catch up. To bless the ones that are not with us anymore. Game routine...Few beers before and a few after...Nothing changed in 40 years and nothing will change in the near future..  . |
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Post by hd2 on Apr 3, 2019 20:54:30 GMT 1
If my mate was driving then a couple in The Ash Brow, or if on bus get off the old 64 Brighouse to Huddersfield at Dewhirst Road, Fartown. Walk down to ground via Red Doles Rd, even better if it was Easter and the fair was on. Take up position on the east terrace, just to the left of the halfway line and below the path which ran along the middle of the stand. As others have said draw in the unique aromas of the ICI works, and pipe/fag tobacco wafting across the ground. Oh, and the days of teams running out on their own, so you could cheer the Town and boo the opposition. None of this modern day stuff of meandering out together, then shaking hands along the line - nah! Ash Brow was my old local and my main out of town drinking spot as a teenager going into early 20’s. |
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Post by Wagner Uber Alles on Apr 3, 2019 21:37:01 GMT 1
I was sat in Starbucks earlier looking out at where the old ground used to be and it really didn’t seem 25 years ago since we were last there. I thought to myself about how easily we’d all be able to slip back into our old routines if we had one more chance to go back. Indulge me for a minute or two. For one game only, on Saturday v Leicester we are back at Leeds Road. Where are you going, who with? Up in the corner of the terrace for me, near the snack bar with my Dad. Not sure he’d be able to stand anymore but I’ll prop him up! I might even stretch to a programme so that I can find out the half time scores!! Half way up the East terrace near Cowshed end. I’d take my dad too but sadly he’s no longer with us. Me and my dad too, same place, since 71, also sadly no longer here. |
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Apr 3, 2019 21:41:22 GMT 1
If my mate was driving then a couple in The Ash Brow, or if on bus get off the old 64 Brighouse to Huddersfield at Dewhirst Road, Fartown. Walk down to ground via Red Doles Rd, even better if it was Easter and the fair was on. Take up position on the east terrace, just to the left of the halfway line and below the path which ran along the middle of the stand. As others have said draw in the unique aromas of the ICI works, and pipe/fag tobacco wafting across the ground. Oh, and the days of teams running out on their own, so you could cheer the Town and boo the opposition. None of this modern day stuff of meandering out together, then shaking hands along the line - nah! Ash Brow was my old local and my main out of town drinking spot as a teenager going into early 20’s. Ash Brow was my pub too, living in Fixby. I recall the landlord was an ex serviceman called Joe who didn’t take any messing about. |
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Post by Town Duppy on Apr 3, 2019 21:54:51 GMT 1
If my mate was driving then a couple in The Ash Brow, or if on bus get off the old 64 Brighouse to Huddersfield at Dewhirst Road, Fartown. Walk down to ground via Red Doles Rd, even better if it was Easter and the fair was on. Take up position on the east terrace, just to the left of the halfway line and below the path which ran along the middle of the stand. As others have said draw in the unique aromas of the ICI works, and pipe/fag tobacco wafting across the ground. Oh, and the days of teams running out on their own, so you could cheer the Town and boo the opposition. None of this modern day stuff of meandering out together, then shaking hands along the line - nah! Ash Brow was my old local and my main out of town drinking spot as a teenager going into early 20’s. Must have been great seeing Town be thrice champions! |
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Post by paulsg on Apr 3, 2019 22:03:33 GMT 1
As a 10 year old, catching the bus from the market in town, walking from one end to the other at halftime, with my knitted blue and white and rattle. As a teenager, stood in the cow shed, near the back trying to outdo my mate in getting songs going. In later years, I had my favourite barrier in the Bradley Mills terrace near the centre. Nothing could beat fish and chips at the Elite, unless it was a pint at the Sportsman. |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Apr 3, 2019 22:17:47 GMT 1
Get the bus from outside the Mirfield cinema, think it was the 262. Get off by the sports centre, walk down, like Oti top of the east terrace and cowshed for the second half. Fish and chip crisp things at HT from a kiosk. Back home on the bus having loved every minute of my day along with the 5 thousand or so others. UTT I believe it was the 262...what a formation. |
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