Plans for Easter Road in 1948

[HutchieHibee]

As requested on the other thread, this is the plan that board had in mind for the stadium


To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[blue toon hibby]

98,000 capacity - changed days eh?

[Bill Oddies Beard]

Originally Posted by blue toon hibby
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

98,000 capacity - changed days eh?

The proposed covered terracing bit has a bigger capacity than ER does now
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


Nice find though HH

[SkyeHibs]

Originally Posted by blue toon hibby
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

98,000 capacity - changed days eh?

Yes quite remarkable. Of course with the success the team were having at the time, in the post war period crowds were going through the roof at Hibs. It does show that the custodians at the time were not lacking in ambition.

[HibeeJibee]

If the ground had been built and filled to capacity, it would have been the third largest ground ever to have existed in Scotland.

[HutchieHibee]

Yes 98,000 was the aim

imagine 3 sides of the ground being the height of the Old big terracing

[Johnny Vegas]

cheers for that hutchie

[Vini1875]

Originally Posted by LanarkHibs
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Yes quite remarkable. Of course with the success the team were having at the time, in the post war period crowds were going through the roof at Hibs. It does show that the custodians at the time were not lacking in ambition.

If that was true why then didn't they cover the terracing. I'm sure with a covering crowds would have stayed high longer and the atmosphere would also have been better. It would have haelped me also from ahving to stand on that giant open terracing from the mid 70s on, rained on and freezing often. It was shocking really that they never covered it and the reason must have been cost and screw the punters who will turn no matter what.

[SkyeHibs]

Originally Posted by Vini1875
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

If that was true why then didn't they cover the terracing. I'm sure with a covering crowds would have stayed high longer and the atmosphere would also have been better. It would have haelped me also from ahving to stand on that giant open terracing from the mid 70s on, rained on and freezing often. It was shocking really that they never covered it and the reason must have been cost and screw the punters who will turn no matter what.

Most big terracings at that time were open Vini. They would not have wanted the expense of covering the terracing. It has certainly been claimed, although I do not know if it is true, that Hibs were a very profitable club in the late 40's early 50's. It was certainly claimed the players were financially better off than those at the old firm.

I am not sure about the crowds hanging around. There is a strong correlation between the success of the club and the size of the crowds in those days. Hibs regularly had bigger gates than Celtic for example who were not going well at the time.

[Wakeyhibee]

Nice piece of history there Hutchie. I have reead this story before but can't work out how this was possible? The ground in 1948 wasn't as big as in the 1950's as documented in thje history books, Hibs raised the East further after the record gate in 1950!!! which makes you wonder how they all got in, I believe there were injuries and many couldn't get a vantage point.

It appears these are plans expand the east first and actually took place (minus the cover and the big wall that ran along the length). In the books by John McKay It was mentioned that the other ends would needed to be raised to a similar level to reach the 98,000 although how that would be acheived I don't know, with the cemetary and the builings behind the dunbar end ?

I have a programme for the opening of the famous five which gives all the attendances for 47/48 and surprising Hibs only had one gate over 40k, 53,000 v Rangers, Celtic and hearts drew 38,000 to ER, lowest was 15,000 v clyde, airdrie and QOS. Other were between 20-30,000.

[HibeeJibee]

The plans were drawn up in 1948, which was the year before Moelwyn Hughes published his report on the 1946 Burnden Park disaster. It was that report, combined with the increase in footballing attendances in the late 1940s and early 1950s as disposable income increased, which led to the capacity of grounds being reduced - essentially speaking from 6 people per sq m to between 4 and 5. This can be seen, for example, in comparison of Hampden Park attendances in the 1930/40s and 50/60s, when the ground was the same, and the demand greater than before, but crowds smaller.

Thus the ground which held 60,000 in the 1950s and 60s, would have held 80,000+ under the old rules.

[80 boab]

LSD wusnae meant to be readily available back then.
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Sorry for doing ma usual thread skimming,but was that Harry Swan?
What a pure mentalcase!
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Surely 97,999 would've been mair approp?
Ma faither played oan a saturday,so Harry must've kent that that figure wuz pie in the sky?
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.