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no South Africa Road (which sounds like a 60s/70s name to me, and instead those large industrial buildings (which i would also love to know the history of if anyone knows)
How we got palnning permission for the stands I'll never know!
I think that those buildings on the White City Estate site were for the Franco-British Exhibition of around 1908 which was a bloody big do, putting the Olympics into the shade. In fact the Olympics arrived as a last minute alternative to Italy as Mount Vesuvius kicked off and we stepped in. Same happened in 1948 when nobody much else could do it so this is the first Olympics that we've ever had time to 'properly' plan for.
There's loads of stuff on the Franco-British exhibition if you Google but here's some postcards:
By WW1, apparently, most of the old Exhibition buildings had been turned into war production facilities. Aircraft assembly, ammunition factories and tent manufacturing were said to have been sited there.
ATAF.
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Loftus Road - 1928 on 09:43 - Jun 26 with 4593 views
South Africa Rd (like most of the other streets around the estate) got it's name either because of the Olympics in 1908 or the 1934 Empire games which were held at the White City Stadium.
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Loftus Road - 1928 on 10:11 - Jun 26 with 4551 views
South Africa Rd (like most of the other streets around the estate) got it's name either because of the Olympics in 1908 or the 1934 Empire games which were held at the White City Stadium.
5th October 1953 the first game was against Arsenal a friendly.
We were one of the first clubs with lights. The BBC used to have live Rugby League from Loftus Road under lights. They had the cameras on a great big concrete block on the South Africa Road terrace. On Rangers match days kids used to stand on the block, but they stopped the rugby 1)because no one watched and 2) because a couple of kids fell off the block and were badly hurt.
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Loftus Road - 1928 on 12:52 - Jun 26 with 4324 views
We were one of the first clubs with lights. The BBC used to have live Rugby League from Loftus Road under lights. They had the cameras on a great big concrete block on the South Africa Road terrace. On Rangers match days kids used to stand on the block, but they stopped the rugby 1)because no one watched and 2) because a couple of kids fell off the block and were badly hurt.
Thanks Ron. If they were the same ones that were in place by 1961 they actually made the place seem darker when switched on.
We were one of the first clubs with lights. The BBC used to have live Rugby League from Loftus Road under lights. They had the cameras on a great big concrete block on the South Africa Road terrace. On Rangers match days kids used to stand on the block, but they stopped the rugby 1)because no one watched and 2) because a couple of kids fell off the block and were badly hurt.
Love these club nostalgia trips.
Out of curiosity, what rugby league team[s] played at Loftus Road in the 50's?
There aint half been some clever bastards.
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Loftus Road - 1928 on 14:42 - Jun 26 with 4158 views
The Loft had a roof long before that. The open terrace in that clip is the School End. The South Africa road stand had recently been built when I started watching regularly in 69-70. But the Loftus Road stand looked like it had been there forever even then. I was surprised to see that end open in the photos up top.
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Loftus Road - 1928 on 19:14 - Jun 26 with 618 views
Loftus Road - 1928 on 16:17 - Jun 26 by VancouverHoop
The Loft had a roof long before that. The open terrace in that clip is the School End. The South Africa road stand had recently been built when I started watching regularly in 69-70. But the Loftus Road stand looked like it had been there forever even then. I was surprised to see that end open in the photos up top.
Remember watching us get stuffed by West Brom around about Xmas 1969. SA Road stand was all but complete, except the side bits.........Fxxxing freezing it was.
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Loftus Road - 1928 on 16:02 - Jul 2 with 543 views
I remember the 68/69 West Brom game well - we lost 4-0 at home and Jeff Astle tore us apart. Six months later he missed a sitter for England v Pele and Brazil in the World Cup.
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