Aerial photos of old football grounds

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8100/1637839432dcbbe2b66ebfs.jpg

Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, during the 1930 World Cup final

missin u (well, not really tbh)

http://www.englishheritageimages.com/image/wembley-stadium-18315_07_483005.jpg

homie of mine has this as his avatar on another board

http://www.footballstadiumart.co.uk/images/M/MKK014_Brighton.jpg

lol stamford bridge, 1992 (went there a year later and remember sitting on wooden benches - really do miss the cars behind the goals)

http://www.englishheritageimages.com/image/stamford-bridge-stadium-afl03_aerofilms_ac614381_682428.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/2817600727_533575ed0d_b.jpg

good lord, what a photo that is

think u can see where RBA is now in that pic

I think I can see Union's ground in the background too

lol what you're supposed to see is Downing Stadium on Randall's Island.

I tried and tried but couldn't find any more specific aerial photos of it.

Taking off from Newark at sunrise was the greatest where-the-hell-is-my-camera moment of my life - something like the above but with even better light.

http://www.evertonfc.com.au/php/wp-content/themes/evertonfc/images/Goodison_Aerial_View.jpg

Funny how the side of the ground where they built the Main Stand in 1971 is still basically the same shape as it is here.

Did you manage to take a photo, michael? Would like to see if so, even if it's ot

http://www.chrishobbs.com/Sheffieldaerial948.jpg

brammall lane cricket ground half way up on the left

that's in 1948. they talked about getting rid of the cricket grass for a long time, e.g. here's parky in 1970

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/images/2007/10/25/david_jones_bramall_lane3_470_470x365.jpg

then they eventually built the south stand in 75

http://www.chrishobbs.com/sufc1993.jpg

apparently one of only two grounds to hold a test match, a cup final and an england international.

can you name the other (without checking the brammall lane page on wikipedia)?

got to be Old Trafford

nope

It's The Oval!

yes! well done!

http://www.globalstadia.com/campo_chicago2.jpg

Old Soldier Field, site of WC matches, MLS matches, NASL matches, NCAA matches, a NASCAR race, oh and da Bears

And now the site of a flying saucer crash

whut

Whenever I drive past on Lakeshore it looks like a spaceship as invaded an oversize Roman Temple.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/cleazer/SOLDIERS_FIELD_SKIJUMP_lrg.jpg

Also skijumping

present day fyi

http://football.ballparks.com/NFL/ChicagoBears/newaerial.jpg

Did you manage to take a photo, michael? Would like to see if so, even if it's ot

No, unfortunately. Was feeling a bit spacey, not sure I'd slept more than a couple of hours and dragging the manual film SLR out of the stowed carry-on was beyond me.

http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/profiles/picspro/CelticPark1984.jpg

I find grounds that've changed shape confusing. This is Parkhead in 1984. You see footage of old Celtic or Chelsea games and you wonder where on earth they are.

http://ayeready.com/ibrox/images/60sibrox.jpg

Ibrox in the 60s

http://www.rangerspedia.org/images/c/c8/IbroxParkRFC.jpg

and even earlier. This one is undated, but given that there must be 60 or 70 thousand people there and barely a vehicle in sight, I'm guessing it'd be 30s or before. It is Govan, right enough.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2258/whitehartlane.jpg

White Hart Lane circa 1930. Is it too late to turn this into a 'Guess The Stadium' thread?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Easter_Road_old.jpg

The Leith San Siro in the '50s. You can see the slope from here.

http://www.ssplprints.com/lowres/43/main/46/125399.jpg

Higbury before they covered the North Bank.

been looking for one of Plough Lane but no joy

Ditto Selhurst Park before they built the supermarket.

Couldn't find an aerial view of the old County Ground at Northampton. Another classic cricket pitch share.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/timwwfc2/OldMolineux45.jpg

more amazing photos of Molineux here

The Valley - best side terrace ever.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LEaabIgK5mI/Rq7UxFj4o2I/AAAAAAAABJc/pGtdaTEhf2s/s400/valley1974.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/timwwfc2/OldMolineux68.jpg

boxing at Molineux

I have to click through to links on this account, and now my browsing history at work has rangerspedia and ayeready.co.uk on it :-(

Thanks you guys :-(

OK, didn't *have* to click through, but, y'know...

Those Ibrox staircases give me the chills.

The overgrown terraces of New Cathkin Park, the former home of Third Lanark

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/cathkinpark.jpg

not aerial but
http://www.nonleaguescotland.co.uk/region/Oldies/petershill3.jpg
Craighead Stadium, Lesmahagow - Lesmahagow v Irvine Meadow, 1948 - record crowd of 24,000

Some sad old sights here from old non-league football in Scotland.

This is where I saw my first juniors match:
http://www.nonleaguescotland.co.uk/region/Oldies/former%20site%20of%20port%20glasgow%27s%20park.jpg

This used to be Roseberry Park, host of many school and amateur cup finals:
http://www.nonleaguescotland.co.uk/region/Oldies/roseberry%20park%20now.jpg
In its heyday:
http://www.nonleaguescotland.co.uk/region/Oldies/roseberry%20park%20then.jpg

All from here: http://www.nonleaguescotland.co.uk/region/Oldies/oldies.htm

Also not aerial, but *sniff* RIP Kingsmills Park, home of most of my formative football-watching years:

http://www.nonleaguescotland.co.uk/region/Oldies/invernessthistle1.jpg

All amazing. Roseberry Park's double touchlines are a bit strange - perfect for tennis maybe. It's surprising how touchlines are so visible when they're only a couple of inches wide. Here's Hackney marshes from space, no problem at all from 400 miles up:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7438/hackneymarshes.jpg

Cathkin Park is astonishing. Just looking at some non-aerial shots now, it's well worth a thread of its own some day.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/polopoly_fs/8618322-1.1017613!image/1379786990.JPG_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/1379786990.JPG

The ultimate aerial shot - Hampden in 1954, with Cathkin Park in the background, and Lesser Hampden just visible on the left.

no problem at all from 400 miles up

metres surely

another of Celtic Park from a different angle, 1986
http://i42.tinypic.com/2m2vthv.jpg

Stamford Bridge 1922
http://images.imagestate.com/Watermark/2369590.jpg

watermark looking like bizarre pitch lines there

Dens Park & Tannadice - 1970s
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TGisiI_dI2E/Sg5wpS4sxnI/AAAAAAAABMs/nza4EvVTZMg/s400/Dens+Tannadice+Gussie+-+mid+70s.jpg

Similar theme - check out these gorgeous, haunting Super 8 clips of empty old grounds from 1979.

http://footballgroundguide.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13962&st=0

The links don't work.

English ones do. Scottish ones appear to be dud.

The links don't work.

They just make you worse.

but I know I'll see Boghead again

Didn't know where else to put this, but this incredible shot is from today:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clc7O-lVYAQ4h27.jpg

It's Egyptian Al Ahly having a training open for the public before their big game against Ismaily. And somewhere in that photo is Ahly's coach, Martin Jol.