I am curious as to how people at the back of the North Stand upper now feel, as those side panels are hacked out – I'm sure the football in a wind tunnel wasn't quite how those seats were priced at the start of the season.
Didn't Bendall escape a court appearance by dying?
Quote from: London Villan on March 18, 2025, 10:18:13 AMDidn't Bendall escape a court appearance by dying?Before my time, but gather he did some dodgy dealings to do with building the North Stand.
Comparisons were made at the time with the amount of materials in/supporting the North Stand and all of Spaghetti Junction.
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Quote from: ADVILLAFAN on March 18, 2025, 11:10:34 AMQuote from: London Villan on March 18, 2025, 10:18:13 AMDidn't Bendall escape a court appearance by dying?Before my time, but gather he did some dodgy dealings to do with building the North Stand.He was that rarest of things, a bent accountant.
Quote from: VillaTim on March 17, 2025, 10:11:43 PMQuote from: dave.woodhall on March 17, 2025, 10:06:13 PMQuote from: VillaTim on March 17, 2025, 10:00:20 PMQuote from: exigo on March 17, 2025, 09:58:46 PM24 months to finish it. Heck will be selling seats in it way before then, even if they're plastic fold up ones sitting on barely dry concrete.To be fair Doug opened the North Stand way before it was finished too. Remember being up there wet paint, the side panels not on, was like a wind tunnel He wasn't chairman then.oh yes course , he came back after 1982. Must have been Bendall then. Point stands though, the stand wasn't quite finished yet they opened it. Try Harry Kartz.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on March 17, 2025, 10:06:13 PMQuote from: VillaTim on March 17, 2025, 10:00:20 PMQuote from: exigo on March 17, 2025, 09:58:46 PM24 months to finish it. Heck will be selling seats in it way before then, even if they're plastic fold up ones sitting on barely dry concrete.To be fair Doug opened the North Stand way before it was finished too. Remember being up there wet paint, the side panels not on, was like a wind tunnel He wasn't chairman then.oh yes course , he came back after 1982. Must have been Bendall then. Point stands though, the stand wasn't quite finished yet they opened it.
Quote from: VillaTim on March 17, 2025, 10:00:20 PMQuote from: exigo on March 17, 2025, 09:58:46 PM24 months to finish it. Heck will be selling seats in it way before then, even if they're plastic fold up ones sitting on barely dry concrete.To be fair Doug opened the North Stand way before it was finished too. Remember being up there wet paint, the side panels not on, was like a wind tunnel He wasn't chairman then.
Quote from: exigo on March 17, 2025, 09:58:46 PM24 months to finish it. Heck will be selling seats in it way before then, even if they're plastic fold up ones sitting on barely dry concrete.To be fair Doug opened the North Stand way before it was finished too. Remember being up there wet paint, the side panels not on, was like a wind tunnel
24 months to finish it. Heck will be selling seats in it way before then, even if they're plastic fold up ones sitting on barely dry concrete.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on March 17, 2025, 10:54:46 PMQuote from: VillaTim on March 17, 2025, 10:11:43 PMQuote from: dave.woodhall on March 17, 2025, 10:06:13 PMQuote from: VillaTim on March 17, 2025, 10:00:20 PMQuote from: exigo on March 17, 2025, 09:58:46 PM24 months to finish it. Heck will be selling seats in it way before then, even if they're plastic fold up ones sitting on barely dry concrete.To be fair Doug opened the North Stand way before it was finished too. Remember being up there wet paint, the side panels not on, was like a wind tunnel He wasn't chairman then.oh yes course , he came back after 1982. Must have been Bendall then. Point stands though, the stand wasn't quite finished yet they opened it. Try Harry Kartz.Might have been William Dugdale . Looks like the North Stand opened in Oct 77