A Picture of Heaven

[dougiedanger]

Must have been quite late on, those barriers were only put in for the Scottish cup game against St Johnstone, I think.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Typical that the traitor in the Jeggie stand does not get the underlying emotive message - the emptiness is the allure calling the faithful to the place of worship - the end would fill up and would rock. Only those with the heart and soul could truly feel it !!

[dougiedanger]

Nothing like being in there early and seeing it fill up, all yer mates around ye, giving it come and have a go...

[Charles Bannerman]

 

 

Let's go for a little walk - down to the Howden End - let's just sit down and talk - under the Howden End - and I will tell you that I love you and the Caley rule supreme - everybody sing - under the Howden End - Norman "Showaddywaddy" Gordon RIP

Massive home crowd.

 

 

Local derby against Thistle.  Caley were shooting into distillery end!   Seriously, as youngsters, we used to swap ends at half time to see Caley's goals up close.

 

Yes I remember these days well. You could go to whichever end of the ground you fancied whenever you fancied and not a steward in sight - only a young cop who went under the name of "Babyface".

[Scarlet Pimple]

We agree Charlie. Why can't we just filter in and then filter out after the game?

 

Much simpler , freedom wto roam whwerever you wanted to . Changing halves at 1/2 time and  so on.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

How about this one then - this was a great day out as we battled Meadowbank in the Commonwealth Games Stadium and Hearts in the streets of Edinburgh afterwards !!

[Charles Bannerman]

There's a bit of artistic licence on the front cover since there was never a floodlight pylon sitting in the three outer lanes of the running track!

[ilpadrino]

How about this one then - this was a great day out as we battled Meadowbank in the Commonwealth Games Stadium and Hearts in the streets of Edinburgh afterwards !!

 

How did you get home afterwards?  An awful lot of snow fell that weekend.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

We stayed overnight but got as far as Pitlochry and the gates were shut. We then doubled back and came home via Aberdeen ! I had a black eye but when I got home I blamed one of my mates for hitting me with an icy snowball !!

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Here is another big attendance

[Scarlet Pimple]

Now it's just Auld Bertie..   that is if he is still on this mortal coil which I doubt.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

And the othe Embra outfit

[Charles Bannerman]

6-0 Hearts.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Now just consider where this would have been situated and perhaps any football stand close by historically should be referred to as the Howden End ?

[+bughtmaster]

                              

[Tichy_Blacks_Back]

How about this one then - this was a great day out as we battled Meadowbank in the Commonwealth Games Stadium and Hearts in the streets of Edinburgh afterwards !!

Is that the Caley cup match programme when they listed the jags squad instead ;-)

Edited June 6, 2015 by Tichy_Blacks_Back

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

It is an old county fair that was held on the Longman,

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Many times I staggered out of here

[IBM]

I have done these cars as well!  I recall someone telling me their father had the filling station but cant remember who.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Even better memories of this lounge

[+weeman]

Even better memories of this lounge

​Went in there one night and they wouldn't serve me as I had jeans on

[Charles Bannerman]

Even better memories of this lounge

​Given the "ER" it could be the Legion or the Portland Club (sorry - haven't found smilies on this new site yet!)..... but it looks like neither.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

It's the old Royal Ordnance

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

I will put this into the Heaven thread out of sheer respect - anyone remember this ?

[Charles Bannerman]

It's the old Royal Ordnance

Ah, so if the Ordnance has always had this loyalty to Her Majesty, that maybe explains why, now the Portland Club has become a mosque, I spotted a number of burly chaps in orange sashes trooping in there a few weeks ago, presumably some obscure but triumphalist celebration of an even more obscure 17th century conflict which everybody else has forgotten.