Hedge End Wolf
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Personally like a slightly asymmetrical ground, built up over the years, sort of different styles but somehow coming together to look great. Villa Park and Hillsborough, Anfield as well. Not too stadia sort of big but still got that big ground feel.
Thanks for sharing. I’d seen one of the plans before, showing the phasing, but not this level of detail for the completed scheme. Where did you get the plans from?
No worries.Thanks for sharing. I’d seen one of the plans before, showing the phasing, but not this level of detail for the completed scheme. Where did you get the plans from?
Your postings are really appreciated. Architecture is and was a pet interest and I dabbled with the idea of studying it, but my sensible head got the better of me! Hence my somewhat obsessive contributions to the countless Molineux threads!No worries.
I posted many of the images and drawings circulating back at the time on here and on the Skyscraper forum, i.e. the phased development drawing showing the capacity increase and the section drawing of the North Bank. It is amazing what you can dig up through web searches and the WCC planning website, which has documents relating to Molineux going back to the 80s.
I was also fortunate to be passed a lot of documentation relating to Morgan's development back at the time through a source and obsessed fan. Sadly, I can't reveal who shared the documents (feels like the transfer thread and I don't wanted be treated like an ITK!!!) as it would potentially compromise how they came to be in possession, but I am happy to share and post it helps shed knowledge on how the ground might have been and what possible developments may occur in the future.
I have always had a fascination for the ground and wrote to the Alan Cotterell Partnership back when SJH was developing the ground in the early 90's. I was invited to their office and was given a guided tour of the new NB before it opened. I was completing my degree at the time and was developing a proposal for a multi-use stadium on Horsesea Island near Portsmouth. It was a time when lots of clubs had plans (sadly for Portsmouth they never got off the drawing board).
As I said happy to share the many more images I have from the Morgan development.
Im sure there were issues with the water table at the time that couldn't be solved as to why this wasn't possibleAlways thought wolves should've done similar to Rangers and dug the pitch down maybe 3m and seated all those gaps around the pitch, would've eeked out maybe 2000 extra seats for minimal cost.
I used to live in a place called Chesham, about 25 miles out of London (near Tring)Another Wolverhampton City Council “pie in the sky” idea.None of it will happen and will just gather dust along with the ”West side” development, and the “Summer Row” shopping centre. When they do attempt to do anything they make a mess of it for example The Civic Hall refurbishment. The work is taking years to complete, and should have been finished a couple of years ago..
If we are relying on our local council to be the catalyst to re build Molineux, forget it.
Me and my Dad was members of HTWMC for yearsI grew up in Heath Town, Clover Ley and Hobgate Road. Our family had their tables in HTWMC. I played football for them. My dad worked at Charles Snapes and my mom was a home help there. Loved the place. Don’t jump to conclusions.
I was in J2 and never saw or heard anythingSo did anyone else witness all the scuffles in the Steve Bull upper this eve? Seemed that the police deployed pepper spray on fans who were getting restless at the half time beer queues.
Use of pepper spray in a packed and enclosed environment didn’t seem clever.