Our Goodison Photographs

[Joey66]

Main stand 1905 & to date -

 

[JelavicBrate2]

As far as I know - Park end & Gwladys street had wooden floors under each grandstand - plus the old paddock was standing below then lower stand was built - standing only evidently the best spec in the ground in the early 1960s .... My older brother & my late father always stood there .....

Was Park End terracing for away fans and seats in Upper tier for Home fans. Watching old games it seems only RS, United and Sheffield Wednesday filled whole Park End? Also with Paddock and what's now Family Enclosure the same price to get into and Lower Gwladys?

 

[Joey66]

Was Park End terracing for away fans and seats in Upper tier for Home fans. Watching old games it seems only RS, United and Sheffield Wednesday filled whole Park End? Also with Paddock and what's now Family Enclosure the same price to get into and Lower Gwladys?

Definitely - behind the goal - The red lot had the whole end like we had at the Anfield Road end -

The only fans who gathered on the Goodison road ala on the side - like in Maine road - they gathered to chant on the Kippex side as it was the largest part of the terracing to gather .....

 

[Dario Terracotta]

…introduced my 3 year old grandson to Goodison this morning as I’m about to say goodbye. Both my kids are fanatical Evertonians and it’s nice for me to know that the legacy lives on for yet another generation;

This is my favourite image at Goodison, I took this a couple of hours ago in the home dressing room and would dearly love to see it re-housed in BMD;

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Jesus Christ Eggs,I didn’t know you were ill

 

[Joey66]

 

[Joey66]

Are we leaving all these?

 

[Joey66]

Archibald Knox design -

 

[The binman chronicles]

Are we leaving all these?

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They're staying Joey.

Archibald Knox design -

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Archibald Leitch won't be very happy with this...

 

[Tom Hughes]

I think there was something mentioned about safe standing areas in the future that could see the capacity to 60k in the future. They do it in Germany for their domestic games, but have to go all seater for Europe. Dortmond get about 16k extra in for league games compared to European games doing this.

Most German clubs have gone for much bigger tread depths in those areas.... ours are just 750mm, which according to the safe-standing guide, only equates to approx 1.3:1 to 1.5:1 standing ratio, if that ever comes in. However, the seats currently in place are not like the German straight-backed safe-standing rail-seats, which allow much more clearway for easy access/egress. Therefore, unless they're replaced those, it will probably never allow for increased ratios. Dortmund's South stand is roughly half traditional terrace (ie no seats) and half safe-seating rail-seats at the back. I'm not certain, but I think they can now have safe-standing for European games too.

 

[Tom Hughes]

The lower Gwladys was terracing, same as the paddock in the Bullens. It's only when you get to the lower Bullens where it was seated that it had wooden floors, as per the upper tiers in both stands.

The lower Bullens was also standing upto 1963/64 or 1964-65 season. It was a favoured standing area for many because it was slightly raised above the lower paddock and it was under cover.

When Everton played LFC in 1963 for the first league derby in years.... there were over 73,000 there. Everton wanted more seats, and it was seated shortly afterwards and the capacity dropped to approx 69,000.

 

[Neiler]

 

[Joey66]

The old Bullens road -

 

[Joey66]

Standing at the rear of the Bullens road -

 

[adi dassler]

The lower Bullens was also standing upto 1963/64 or 1964-65 season. It was a favoured standing area for many because it was slightly raised above the lower paddock and it was under cover.

When Everton played LFC in 1963 for the first league derby in years.... there were over 73,000 there. Everton wanted more seats, and it was seated shortly afterwards and the capacity dropped to approx 69,000.

Any idea when the capacity dropped below 60k? Was it the building of the new Msin Stand? Can't recall seeing us having any (official) 60k plus gates from the 70s onwards

 

[Tom Hughes]

Any idea when the capacity dropped below 60k? Was it the building of the new Msin Stand? Can't recall seeing us having any (official) 60k plus gates from the 70s onwards

Yes, the current mainstand replaced the Archibald Leitch stand in 2 construction phases around 1969-71. Both
half stands existing side by side for our league winning season (69-70). The old Goodison Road terrace was massive. In his book (Engineering Archie), Simon Inglis claims it held only 11k, but I think that is an error and estimate it to be approx 21k. The old stand above holding just under 4k. When completed, the new stand had just over 10k seats over 2 tiers and just under 6k standing capacity in the enclosure (before the boxes went in approx 10yrs later). So that probably left an approximate 56-57k capacity in 1971. New ground safety regs in the mid 70s dropped that slightly, as did the loss of the rear section of the Park end in approx 1980 (but with reinstatement of the 2 semi-circular terraced cut-outs behind the goals), which left capacity at approx 52-53k in the early/mid 80s.