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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Aug 13, 2017 15:35:56 GMT
I liked the Vic for what it was. And everything that it stood for.
And before anyone asks, I was there pre mem days, as was on the road in 80s..
Any pub is a sad loss to a community. Foxy Vic both remembered with dignity and respect and alot of hilarity!
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Post by Dr John Dee on Aug 13, 2017 20:17:07 GMT
Very good 020202ba - I wonder if your reference has passed anyone by ? Yep passed me by, you are going to have to explain it. Which kinds of makes it not funny, if indeed funny it was supposed to be.
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Post by GasMacc1 on Aug 13, 2017 20:54:19 GMT
Charlton was the name of a small village in Gloucestershire, England, demolished in the late 1940s to make room for airport expansion. It was between Filton and Cribbs Causeway immediately north of Bristol. Charlton was a tything in the ancient parish, and later civil parish, of Henbury. In 1870 it had a population of 425. Between 1910 and 1915 the village was served by Charlton Halt, on the Henbury Loop railway line just south of the village. In 1935 the village was transferred to the civil parish of Almondsbury. The B4057 road ran through the village. Charlton had several farm houses, a public house called the Carpenters Arms, a post office, several large houses and a few cottages. In the late 1940s nearly all of the village was demolished to make way for an extension of the main runway at Filton Airfield, now Filton Aerodrome, to accommodate take-offs of the giant Bristol Brabazon propeller-driven airliner.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2017 21:28:04 GMT
Charlton was the name of a small village in Gloucestershire, England, demolished in the late 1940s to make room for airport expansion. It was between Filton and Cribbs Causeway immediately north of Bristol. Charlton was a tything in the ancient parish, and later civil parish, of Henbury. In 1870 it had a population of 425. Between 1910 and 1915 the village was served by Charlton Halt, on the Henbury Loop railway line just south of the village. In 1935 the village was transferred to the civil parish of Almondsbury. The B4057 road ran through the village. Charlton had several farm houses, a public house called the Carpenters Arms, a post office, several large houses and a few cottages. In the late 1940s nearly all of the village was demolished to make way for an extension of the main runway at Filton Airfield, now Filton Aerodrome, to accommodate take-offs of the giant Bristol Brabazon propeller-driven airliner. I've read that before, and it begs the question what wasn't demolished in the 1940s and is it still there?
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Post by Curly Wurly on Aug 13, 2017 21:37:04 GMT
out of interest does anyone have any idea of how much acreage would be needed to accommodate a new stadium away from The Mem? The plot at Ashton Gate is about 8.5 acres. The Mem site is only slightly smaller and is a more square plot than Ashton. Without an exhaustive search, I suspect most of the space greater than that size within the north of the City of Bristol is protected in one way or another, Passing the Rolls Royce site yesterday, although there is plenty of warehouse/industrial development, I noticed the hoarding was advertising an area much, much larger than this still available for development. By comparison: Portman Road - 6.1 acres - 30,311 Craven Cottage - 5.4 acres - 25700 Loftus Road - 4.2 acres - 18,439
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Post by Peter Parker on Aug 14, 2017 7:10:17 GMT
out of interest does anyone have any idea of how much acreage would be needed to accommodate a new stadium away from The Mem? The plot at Ashton Gate is about 8.5 acres. The Mem site is only slightly smaller and is a more square plot than Ashton. Without an exhaustive search, I suspect most of the space greater than that size within the north of the City of Bristol is protected in one way or another, Passing the Rolls Royce site yesterday, although there is plenty of warehouse/industrial development, I noticed the hoarding was advertising an area much, much larger than this still available for development. By comparison: Portman Road - 6.1 acres - 30,311 Craven Cottage - 5.4 acres - 25700 Loftus Road - 4.2 acres - 18,439
I have no problem with us developing The Mem and in principle the site is big enough,comparable sites have decent capacities but it's the practicality and cost of doing so and what work will have to be done. Do we need to move out again?
I don't think raising finance will necessarily be a problem, but the ROI will surely be slower if we managed to do it/If the Al-Qadi's want to do it and that is the $64,000 question isn't it right now
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Post by Curly Wurly on Aug 14, 2017 9:21:51 GMT
The plot at Ashton Gate is about 8.5 acres. The Mem site is only slightly smaller and is a more square plot than Ashton. Without an exhaustive search, I suspect most of the space greater than that size within the north of the City of Bristol is protected in one way or another, Passing the Rolls Royce site yesterday, although there is plenty of warehouse/industrial development, I noticed the hoarding was advertising an area much, much larger than this still available for development. By comparison: Portman Road - 6.1 acres - 30,311 Craven Cottage - 5.4 acres - 25700 Loftus Road - 4.2 acres - 18,439
I have no problem with us developing The Mem and in principle the site is big enough,comparable sites have decent capacities but it's the practicality and cost of doing so and what work will have to be done. Do we need to move out again?
I don't think raising finance will necessarily be a problem, but the ROI will surely be slower if we managed to do it/If the Al-Qadi's want to do it and that is the $64,000 question isn't it right now
I'm taking Wael at his word, but we'll have to be patient yet again for plans to emerge. Given the situation, I'm actually looking forward to the prospect of something other than an identikit stadium, particularly if standing can be incorporated. Thinking back to Rovers early days at the Mem - when we only had two sides occupied - it is certainly conceivable that the ground could be developed without the need to move out.
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Post by billyocean on Aug 14, 2017 10:47:53 GMT
Charlton was the name of a small village in Gloucestershire, England, demolished in the late 1940s to make room for airport expansion. It was between Filton and Cribbs Causeway immediately north of Bristol. Charlton was a tything in the ancient parish, and later civil parish, of Henbury. In 1870 it had a population of 425. Between 1910 and 1915 the village was served by Charlton Halt, on the Henbury Loop railway line just south of the village. In 1935 the village was transferred to the civil parish of Almondsbury. The B4057 road ran through the village. Charlton had several farm houses, a public house called the Carpenters Arms, a post office, several large houses and a few cottages. In the late 1940s nearly all of the village was demolished to make way for an extension of the main runway at Filton Airfield, now Filton Aerodrome, to accommodate take-offs of the giant Bristol Brabazon propeller-driven airliner. Hence the current name of the new housing development that is now built there: Charlton Hayes.
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Post by pirateduncan on Aug 14, 2017 16:02:28 GMT
I hope this is all pie in the sky,there are several reasons why I think the Mem is not fit for purpose for a club who hope to be playing at a much higher level, I think we need to move into the 21st century with vastly improved facilities right across the board. but whilst we spend year after year working on projects ultimately doomed to failure we're not just not in a stadium fit for much higher level, but we're falling behind many clubs we would never have thought likely. I always believed in the 'got to be ambitious' idea of ensuring we can keep expanding to 20-25k but since then we've overseen two failure projects costing surely in the millions in planning/design/legal fees and the Mem only gets less and less conducive to a successful modern football club. If they built us a stadium with the same capacity as now it'd be a step up. 15k would be more than enough for a decade at least... meanwhile colchester and shrewsbury play in much nicer surroundings let's please just find something sensible and financially sustainable and build the thing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 17:50:25 GMT
There's absolutely nothing that Shrewsbury or Colchester have that I'd want at Rovers. If that's the best we can hope for I'd rather we didn't bother.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Aug 14, 2017 18:43:33 GMT
There's absolutely nothing that Shrewsbury or Colchester have that I'd want at Rovers. If that's the best we can hope for I'd rather we didn't bother. Safe standing in a new all seater stadium?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 18:54:11 GMT
There's absolutely nothing that Shrewsbury or Colchester have that I'd want at Rovers. If that's the best we can hope for I'd rather we didn't bother. Safe standing in a new all seater stadium? WAQ mentioned this as a wish on points west this evening, would be great to incorporate it in a 17/18k stadium, no idea where the ROI comes from with Mem rebuild, talk on the kids site of a previous consortium trying to take over and relight the UWE negotiations, mushroom season has come early it seems.
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Post by Angas on Aug 14, 2017 18:58:01 GMT
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Post by PessimistGas on Aug 14, 2017 19:09:17 GMT
Safe standing in a new all seater stadium? WAQ mentioned this as a wish on points west this evening, would be great to incorporate it in a 17/18k stadium, no idea where the ROI comes from with Mem rebuild, talk on the kids site of a previous consortium trying to take over and relight the UWE negotiations, mushroom season has come early it seems. If that is the case then they need to go public.
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Post by Peter Parker on Aug 14, 2017 19:20:26 GMT
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Post by PessimistGas on Aug 14, 2017 19:22:26 GMT
Heard he'd been blabbing. Is that who is being referred to? Ffs. 😆
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Post by Peter Parker on Aug 14, 2017 19:23:24 GMT
Heard he'd been blabbing. Is that who is being referred to? Ffs. 😆 Well thats me putting 2+2 together with what was being said
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 19:40:43 GMT
WAQ mentioned this as a wish on points west this evening, would be great to incorporate it in a 17/18k stadium, no idea where the ROI comes from with Mem rebuild, talk on the kids site of a previous consortium trying to take over and relight the UWE negotiations, mushroom season has come early it seems. If that is the case then they need to go public. Why do you think they need to announce it?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 19:57:13 GMT
Ah that's why he wasn't in his box on Saturday then, was hatching a plan in Texas with Swiss Gas, of course, mushroom season has indeed arrived early this year!!!
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Post by Curly Wurly on Aug 14, 2017 21:34:30 GMT
Thank you for posting this. Call me gullible, but that didn't sound like someone that was about to sell up to anybody.
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