Re: Pond Life Corner : Sun Aug 13, 2023 5:59 pm  

Wasn't there a toilet past the dugout, as you went towards the corner nearest the railway end? Have a vague memory of opening it and seeing a Workington fan going about his business! Scarred young me, that did!

Re: Pond Life Corner : Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:07 pm  

You mean THE Workington fan

Re: Pond Life Corner : Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:11 pm  

wirecation wrote: I guess you all refer to pondline corner as the small terrace under the hospitality boxes at the Fletcher st end? As a child i stood in the Fletch but could never get a good view. Later moved to the open section (in summer) underneath the scoreboard. Maybe looking back with nostalgia but the place always made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when you got onto the terrace. Not wure what is was. I can't really say i've had the same feeling when entering the HJ. Wilderspool could look a bit of a dump but it was a traditional RL ground with lots of history so it had a bit of an aura about it. I don't remember changing ends much. Maybe once or twice. Pond life was the corner of the Railway End and Bevin Stand. I know what you mean about the hairs on the neck. Something about old stadiums with bags of history and character, a soul almost. The smell of wintergreen and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0

wirecation wrote: I guess you all refer to pondline corner as the small terrace under the hospitality boxes at the Fletcher st end? As a child i stood in the Fletch but could never get a good view. Later moved to the open section (in summer) underneath the scoreboard. Maybe looking back with nostalgia but the place always made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when you got onto the terrace. Not wure what is was. I can't really say i've had the same feeling when entering the HJ. Wilderspool could look a bit of a dump but it was a traditional RL ground with lots of history so it had a bit of an aura about it. I don't remember changing ends much. Maybe once or twice. Pond life was the corner of the Railway End and Bevin Stand. I know what you mean about the hairs on the neck. Something about old stadiums with bags of history and character, a soul almost. The smell of wintergreen and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0

Re: Pond Life Corner : Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:11 pm  

Wires71 wrote: Pond life was the corner of the Railway End and Bevin Stand. I know what you mean about the hairs on the neck. Something about old stadiums with bags of history and character, a soul almost. The smell of wintergreen and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0 More associated with clowns than anything, seems more apt nowadays than ever.

Wires71 wrote: Pond life was the corner of the Railway End and Bevin Stand. I know what you mean about the hairs on the neck. Something about old stadiums with bags of history and character, a soul almost. The smell of wintergreen and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0 More associated with clowns than anything, seems more apt nowadays than ever.

Re: Pond Life Corner : Sun Aug 13, 2023 9:06 pm  

matt_wire wrote:

More associated with clowns than anything, seems more apt nowadays than ever.

Should be played at end of some of recent games.

Re: Pond Life Corner : Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:54 am  

morrisseyisawire wrote:

I'm amazed I out-survived Wilderspool tbh.

Negotiating the crumbling Fletcher St terraces whilst carrying 3 pints and still to sober up from the night before.

Visiting the WWI latrines that claimed to be the toilets.

Player of the Year awards in The Touchdown Club when the awards took second place to drunkeness of Led Zeppellin proportions.

2023 health and safety would have shut the whole site down instantly. Thankfully, we enjoyed it in a time when you didn't have to conduct a census to make sure you didn't offend anyone in the name of fun.

You must be 103 by now.

Re: Pond Life Corner : Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:47 am  

Karl should bottle the "Eau de Wilderspool" being a vibrant essence of mushy peas, bad pies, stale bitter, rancid farts, belches, BO, putrid latrines and wintergreen. Retro is back in. Mind you the HJ stadium is slowly, but surely, deteriorating into Wilderspool.

Re: Pond Life Corner : Mon Aug 14, 2023 12:31 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

Karl should bottle the "Eau de Wilderspool" being a vibrant essence of mushy peas, bad pies, stale bitter, rancid farts, belches, BO, putrid latrines and wintergreen. Retro is back in. Mind you the HJ stadium is slowly, but surely, deteriorating into Wilderspool.

It will never reach them dizzy heights while we have internet and phones.

Re: Pond Life Corner : Mon Aug 14, 2023 1:49 pm  

I seem to remember they only had 2 or 3 military marches that would play on the wind up gramophone as pre match entertainment.

Re: Pond Life Corner : Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:12 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

Karl should bottle the "Eau de Wilderspool" being a vibrant essence of mushy peas, bad pies, stale bitter, rancid farts, belches, BO, putrid latrines and wintergreen. Retro is back in. Mind you the HJ stadium is slowly, but surely, deteriorating into Wilderspool.

Some of the gentlemen I stand near in the South Stand just need a bit of Deep Heat and they are there!