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Ninian Park , West Stand, 1960's @CardiffCityFC

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Wow, its all very basic compared to today's facilities at grounds

Wow, its all very basic compared to today's facilities at grounds

But I prefer it

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Never heard it called the West Stand before! Always been the Grandstand to me.

It was the enclosure I think below and to the side of the grandstand?

That's the Grange end!

That's the Grange end!

Its the grandstand pre 73

If you stood at the front of the enclosure you were below the level of the pitch - your head was at the same level as the players’ knees!

Incredibly the official capacity for the enclosure was 10,000 in the sixties, though i think this was being optimistic. My grandfather told me they used to have packers on the touchline who would instruct the crowd in the enclosure to move along to the centre to get more in. And i remember when i was a boy the tannoy asking people in the enclosure to move to the right or left or whatever. Probably a big game like Arsenal in 69 when the crowd was 55K or maybe Hamburg

Incredibly the official capacity for the enclosure was 10,000 in the sixties, though i think this was being optimistic. My grandfather told me they used to have packers on the touchline who would instruct the crowd in the enclosure to move along to the centre to get more in. And i remember when i was a boy the tannoy asking people in the enclosure to move to the right or left or whatever. Probably a big game like Arsenal in 69 when the crowd was 55K or maybe Hamburg

People were much smaller in girth in those days. I used to go in the Canton in the very early days. The painted lines defining the seats seemed small even when I was a kid. The average man these days would have needed 2 of them, some 3.

Ad for John Williams steel there.. little timepiece. Old Cardiff steel firm, had the foundry on Taff Embankment. Closed in 90s I think. Nice photo.

Incredibly the official capacity for the enclosure was 10,000 in the sixties, though i think this was being optimistic. My grandfather told me they used to have packers on the touchline who would instruct the crowd in the enclosure to move along to the centre to get more in. And i remember when i was a boy the tannoy asking people in the enclosure to move to the right or left or whatever. Probably a big game like Arsenal in 69 when the crowd was 55K or maybe Hamburg

People were much smaller in girth in those days. I used to go in the Canton in the very early days. The painted lines defining the seats seemed small even when I was a kid. The average man these days would have needed 2 of them, some 3.

I remember those white lines and you are right about the size of people these days.

Related to this, the Rugby League final in the old Wembley used to have a capacity of 95K rather than 100K because rugby fans were bigger-( fatter?)-than football fans.