During my Maine Road 100 series of free articles commemorating the centenary of Manchester City’s former stadium I had hoped to post this image showing players playing head tennis on the directors’ car park with the Platt Lane Stand in the background. I couldn’t find my scan until this week sadly, so here it is now.
As a kid I used to sit in the Platt Lane and sometimes, if we didn’t walk through the corner tunnel, we’d climb those steps up to the back of the stand. You can see elsewhere (follow links below) stories about the old stand explaining how it was expanded, its age and so on, but the relevant bit for me today is the stair case(s). Back in the 70s they used to scare me. Climbing up or down I felt they were rickety and you could see through the gaps. I much preferred going down the tunnel.
Do you have memories of the old Platt Lane? Feel free to post them as comments here. Thanks.
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I remember the Honved game being played in torrential rain.
For this game, tickets for me and my Dad were at the back of the Platt Lane (our usual place), although for league games we usually sat down at the front. We had to walk up the wrought iron stairs to get to our position. There were gaps in the steps, as you say, and the stairs looked huge, and quite scary to me as well, especially with the wind and rain. I remember trying to take an extra strong grip on the rail and my Dad’s hand!
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