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Post by Roy of the Rovers on May 29, 2019 14:00:28 GMT
Indeed Charles, I suspect nobody has mentioned the dogs on here as it's so recent (by the standards of folks ages on here) and I don't know any Rovers fans that went to these meetings.
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Post by chris on May 29, 2019 18:20:55 GMT
My mrs. And her brothers used to watch the dogs from their grandparents house on Albion street, at the corner of the coatbridge end must have only stopped early 90s
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Post by tommysermanni on May 30, 2019 7:05:42 GMT
Can anyone confirm what the bricked out building behind the dug outs that Charles refers to was used for ?
I don't think it was connected to the greyhounds. I'm sure the finish line for the dogs was on the stand side and a portacabin beside the current pie stall was where they took pictures for photo finishes etc.
I think the bricked building was at some time a pie shop but I could be wrong.
I do also remember we had a cracking programme shop as well at the main stand with programmes from all over the UK.
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Post by Rovergrant on May 30, 2019 7:53:04 GMT
I think the bricked area on the north terracing was not a `building` as such but to create a level platform on the sloped terracing where the bookies could stand and have the `pitches` . I ran the wee programme shop at the west end of the main stand in the late 70s, early 80s. Used to swap Rovers programmes with dealers all over the country for other clubs` programmes. Sometimes on a Sunday morning used to go to a programme shop in an old tenement in Glasgow - just under the Kingston Bridge on the south bank of the Clyde - to exchange Rovers programmes left over from the home games. Two guys ran that shop - Martin Solomons and Steve Jacobs - it only opened on weekends but was great hang out for football fans. In those days Rovers programme was run by the Supporters Club..moi as editor. Does anyone remember the Programme Fairs at the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow - a guy called John Litster ran that...we aways had a stall at these events. John later became a Director at Raith Rovers.
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Post by tommysermanni on May 30, 2019 8:55:55 GMT
Yeah I remember the programme fair Grant but too young to go.Sure Rovers won some awards for their programme in the late 70's early 80's.
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Post by Rovergrant on May 30, 2019 9:25:02 GMT
Did indeed TS....won the Second Division `title` several times late 70s. Moroprint Services did the printing - they were based on Calder Avenue, Coatbridge - three brothers Ernest, Alastair and Liddle Morrow assisted by Liddle`s wife...sorry I forget her name....great service...Rovers supporters too.
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Post by chris on May 30, 2019 12:32:20 GMT
I'm sure when I was younger I remember montrose(?) Having a wee program stand as you walked into the ground
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Post by Roy of the Rovers on May 30, 2019 20:46:41 GMT
For a while Montrose gave everyone a free prog when paying in IIRC. Also when I was younger they had a 13 y.o. doing the prog. It was handwritten and copied on large pages, the guy was still (or perhaps going them again after a break not so long ago and may still be).
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Post by Neil on May 31, 2019 15:49:43 GMT
I remember going to the programme shop,it was just at the stairs across from the gents toilets. Used to collect programmes from all over the uk. I'm sure Bucky was working on it at the time. Shame I can't remember what happened to them. I also used to watch the team train every Tuesday and Thursday down at Keirs Park Rosehall when i stayed in Shawhead. Must have been 14/15 at the time how sad was I..
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Post by rab on May 31, 2019 18:20:08 GMT
I blame the programme shop for getting me into collecting Rovers programmes and subsequently spending a small fortune over the years. The shop itself was the best at a Scottish football ground (as arguably was the Rovers match programme at the time, edited by Grant). One day, a fan handed in a load of Rovers programmes from matches in the 60s and early 70s, and of course I bought them all - in the process acquiring the elusive Berwick home from 1970/71 and Clydebank away from 72/73. I and others helped at the shop in the late 70s/early 80s. I remember being rushed off my feet at the Rangers League Cup tie in1978 and being verbally abused by a drunken Dunfermline fan because we didn't have any old Pars programmes in the shop - before we went on to beat them 3-0!
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Post by RoverDGNR8 on Jun 2, 2019 14:05:32 GMT
You must've taken a fair bit of my pocket money off me in the late 70s, Grant. I had a fair collection by the time I left school, but only a handful of "firsts" survive (first game, first Rovers game, first international, first Wembley visit etc).
But that's as maybe. We (Gartsherrie Primary) used the speedway track for some sponsored cycle rides in the mid 70s; supposed to be a maximum of 40 or 50 laps, but I remember my mum telling me I wasn't allowed to do more than 25 because it would cost her too much!
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Post by Rovergrant on Jun 2, 2019 14:50:11 GMT
Yes, programme colecting was a big thing in those days.....not sure if it still is....certainly for some , like Rab, it has been a lifetime`s obsession
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