The World Famous City Ground - Home of the PROPER WORLD‘S OLDEST LEAGUE CLUB

[Shearstone]

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Nottingham Waldmannen.

I like it.

Bit USMNT including the fact it's the men's team.

Nottingham Wald will do

 

[adam09]

I was at that Man utd game. Difference being it didn't cost an arm and a leg to get in.

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And 20k United fans in the home end.

 

[Strummer]

Bit USMNT including the fact it's the men's team.

Nottingham Wald will do

Waldheim Nottingham.

 

[Shearstone]

Waldheim Nottingham.

That's lost me Forest Home Nottingham? My Germans GCSE level

 

[donny]

Waldheim Nottingham.

Nottingham Rote Forster?

 

[RianBrice]

Not sure when this was filmed, but interesting all the same! Apologies if it’s already been posted!

 

[football post]

Never mind the Trent End toilets....

Did you ever try to find your way to the East Stand bogs when the terraces were rammed solid.



@Bonfy177

Point taken

 

[Rockabilly]

Point taken

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The bogs were located through the tunnel below the barrier on the right of that picture.

The rest of the terraced pens in the East Stand, the toilets and Exits were located at the back of the pens and were alot easier to locate.

 

[football post]

The bogs were located through the tunnel below the barrier on the right of that picture.

The rest of the terraced pens in the East Stand, the toilets and Exits were located at the back of the pens and were alot easier to locate.

I know mate. As a youngster I sat above on the benches watching a fella with a quiff, half cut staggering up and down those steps.

 

[I'm Red Till Dead]

Can Forest not just opt to join the Bundesliga if we promise not to change our name to RB Forest?

We'd probably have to change the name to RH (Robin Hood) Forest for marketing purposes.

 

[valspoodle]

I just had an invitation to a Museum Hospitality package.

When It was first mentioned I thought the museum references were a joke, but the place is a reality.

Reading the above post I think I'm Red Till Dead should be the club's official historian or at least an adviser or consultant. Does the club have a proper historian already in place or just someone from the office going round with a cart collecting the articles scattered round the board room and other nooks and crannies?

 

[I'm Red Till Dead]

I just had an invitation to a Museum Hospitality package.

When It was first mentioned I thought the museum references were a joke, but the place is a reality.

Reading the above post I think I'm Red Till Dead should be the club's official historian or at least an adviser or consultant. Does the club have a proper historian already in place or just someone from the office going round with a cart collecting the articles scattered round the board room and other nooks and crannies?

Don told me he hasn't had a lot of input into the Museum and what he has had was recent. He only got to see it for the first time on the day of the Palace game.

He says that they have a shinty stick on loan from Walter Lymberry's family which he used to play with, and Fred and Frank Forman's international caps on display too. (They are not the only things there obviously before anyone comments)

 

[Flaggers]

Don told me he hasn't had a lot of input into the Museum and what he has had was recent. He only got to see it for the first time on the day of the Palace game.

He says that they have a shinty stick on loan from Walter Lymberry's family which he used to play with, and Fred and Frank Forman's international caps on display too. (They are not the only things there obviously before anyone comments)

I've held that very shinty stick #claimtofame

 

[Otis Redding]

I just had an invitation to a Museum Hospitality package.

When It was first mentioned I thought the museum references were a joke, but the place is a reality.

Reading the above post I think I'm Red Till Dead should be the club's official historian or at least an adviser or consultant. Does the club have a proper historian already in place or just someone from the office going round with a cart collecting the articles scattered round the board room and other nooks and crannies?

I don't know how official the position actually is Richard, but a bloke called Don Wright seems to have been acknowledged as a club historian, although, like you, I'd strongly argue Nicola's (IRTD) case for that role.

 

[Notcher]

I just had an invitation to a Museum Hospitality package.

When It was first mentioned I thought the museum references were a joke, but the place is a reality.

Reading the above post I think I'm Red Till Dead should be the club's official historian or at least an adviser or consultant. Does the club have a proper historian already in place or just someone from the office going round with a cart collecting the articles scattered round the board room and other nooks and crannies?

One of my jobs as a YT at Forest was to take the ground tours. One of the Directors Bob Fairhall (a lovely guy) used to take them as he loved the supporters but whenever he was unavailable I'd take them around. Bob soon taught me all of the trivia and details about all the trophies and a few stories to throw in then it was just about me putting my personality and spin on it. I actually really enjoyed doing. It required a chameleon of a personilty, one for kids, one for corporate, one for foreigners and one for local supporters, great fun.

I've still got a set of keys which the then Stadium manager Chas Ralph lent me (another great guy) although he'd probably still give me a shoeing for not returning them to him.

 

[Ian Moore Gone Little]

I don't know how official the position actually is Richard, but a bloke called Don Wright seems to have been acknowledged as a club historian, although, like you, I'd strongly argue Nicola's (IRTD) case for that role.

Don certainly is the club’s official historian (unless anything’s changed since he stopped writing articles for the programme earlier this season), but I don’t know what is/was specifically expected of that role and what Don himself brought to it. I assume it’s unpaid and it might be it hasn’t been defined in detail.

As I have mentioned elsewhere, I would have hoped that the likes of Don, Nicola and the various supporters’ groups might have been consulted at the planning stage as their input (and, I hope, my own, given that I write for the programme on the club’s history and culture) could have added so much (memories, souvenirs, authenticity…) to what the (I hope!) professional designers and club officials could think of. So it’s disappointing, to say the least, if Don has only been considered at the last minute.

Caveat: I say all this without having seen the museum myself and one or two people on the various Forest podcasts seem to have been quite impressed with it. So I’m hopeful that it is a good representation of all that makes our club special, while feeling an opportunity might have been missed to make it even better.

 

[Otis Redding]

Don certainly is the club’s official historian (unless anything’s changed since he stopped writing articles for the programme earlier this season), but I don’t know what is/was specifically expected of that role and what Don himself brought to it. I assume it’s unpaid and it might be it hasn’t been defined in detail.

As I have mentioned elsewhere, I would have hoped that the likes of Don, Nicola and the various supporters’ groups might have been consulted at the planning stage as their input (and, I hope, my own, given that I write for the programme on the club’s history and culture) could have added so much (memories, souvenirs, authenticity…) to what the (I hope!) professional designers and club officials could think of. So it’s disappointing, to say the least, if Don has only been considered at the last minute.

Caveat: I say all this without having seen the museum myself and one or two people on the various Forest podcasts seem to have been quite impressed with it. So I’m hopeful that it is a good representation of all that makes our club special, while feeling an opportunity might have been missed to make it even better.

IIRC, an amount of potential material and/or items were reported to be lost or damaged during the '68 fire?

 

[Ian Moore Gone Little]

IIRC, an amount of potential material and/or items were reported to be lost or damaged during the '68 fire?

Yes, a lot of club records were certainly lost, as were the players’ contracts (though presumably copies were easy enough to get from the various football authorities) I’m not sure if there might have been a minor trophy or two as well.

 

[I'm Red Till Dead]

One of my jobs as a YT at Forest was to take the ground tours. One of the Directors Bob Fairhall (a lovely guy) used to take them as he loved the supporters but whenever he was unavailable I'd take them around. Bob soon taught me all of the trivia and details about all the trophies and a few stories to throw in then it was just about me putting my personality and spin on it. I actually really enjoyed doing. It required a chameleon of a personilty, one for kids, one for corporate, one for foreigners and one for local supporters, great fun.

I've still got a set of keys which the then Stadium manager Chas Ralph lent me (another great guy) although he'd probably still give me a shoeing for not returning them to him.

So all down to the City Ground on Sunday night for the soon to be annual LTLF football match on the Forest ground pitch curtesy of Notcher.

The first one to get an ACL injury gets to prove that the pitch is the cause of the teams ongoing injury problems.

 

[Notcher]

So all down to the City Ground on Sunday night for the soon to be annual LTLF football match on the Forest ground pitch curtesy of Notcher.

The first one to ge an ACL injury gets to prove that the pitch is the cause of the teams ongoing injury problems.

I really should return them. They've been sat in a few different drawers for over 20 years now. Classic "man drawer" stuff

 

[I'm Red Till Dead]

I really should return them. They've been sat in a few different drawers for over 20 years now. Classic "man drawer" stuff

You really should. Imagine there was a break in.

To be honest though they ought to have changed the locks between then and now.

 

[Notcher]

You really should. Imagine there was a break in.

To be honest though they ought to have changed the locks between then and now.

I'm pretty sure they would have been changed after that crazy bastard Billy Davies left

 

[I'm Red Till Dead]

Yes, a lot of club records were certainly lost, as were the players’ contracts (though presumably copies were easy enough to get from the various football authorities) I’m not sure if there might have been a minor trophy or two as well.

(all 1932)
Trowbridge Hospital Cup? (v Wolves)
Chesterfield Royal Hospital Cup? (v Chesterfield)
Banks Charity Cup? (v Peterborough and Fletton United)
Peterborough Infirmary Cup? (v Peterborough and Fletton United)

Those kinds of minor trophys?

 

[I'm Red Till Dead]

I'm pretty sure they would have been changed after that crazy bastard Billy Davies left

I was thinking of it happening when Marinakis came in since it was alleged that Fawas took some of the cups.

Good practice dictates that the locks should be changed whenever someone leaves who may have had access to the keys. Same for the security code.

 

[Lefkasman]

How come those bloody pesky foreigners can get stuff done.https://youtu.be/g0F_hTGYa0Y?si=7IG_PUIqULF5Za2x


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