Anyone think Bramall Lane .....

[Worksop II]

should be listed as a National Heritage site.

Being the Oldest Professional Football Ground in England ( maybe Worldwide).

It has staged League Games, Fa Cup, and League Cup Games, FA Cup Finals and England Internationals

Should it hold a special place in the Football History of England (and the World) and receive the protection it deserves.

Just finking like ..........

 

[boo radley]

You could be right but let it be owned by the fans or the club in general first. Not just that bloke who's made the most sequence of worst decisions in football history. If he'd have bet on himself for doing so he would have won the bet. Although somewhere in there, there seems to be a paradox???

 

[axel smeets]

Also it has the honour of hosting an Ashes test match, the only ground I think apart from the Oval that has hosted a first class test match and an FA Cup Final.

 

[Toronto Blade]

It should be a heritage site but it isn't in London.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

should be listed as a National Heritage site.

Being the Oldest Professional Football Ground in England ( maybe Worldwide).

It has staged League Games, Fa Cup, and League Cup Games, FA Cup Finals and England Internationals

Should it hold a special place in the Football History of England (and the World) and receive the protection it deserves.

Just finking like ..........

That would make the freehold worthless and offer us some protection from becoming Currie Way, Woodward Lane etc.

 

[Russ]

That would make the freehold worthless and offer us some protection from becoming Currie Way, Woodward Lane etc.

or

John Street Terrace
Dellas Drive
Agana Avenue
Colquhoun Court

 

[2ndtenorblade]

How does this become possible, do we get a petition?

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Excellent suggestion. The Lane is also the only ground to simultaneously host football league champions (United) and county cricket champions (Yorkshire) in the same year (1898).

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

If Park Hill flats can get listed status then anything is possible.

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

never thought about it, but if thats the same thing as "listed status" that im always hearing about the utterly hideous park hill, then yeah why not.

if the oldest proper stadium (shhh) in the world isnt worth protecting as much as a concrete lego set of poverty and crime, then the worlds gone mad!

 

[scrap]

should be listed as a National Heritage site.

Being the Oldest Professional Football Ground in England ( maybe Worldwide).

It has staged League Games, Fa Cup, and League Cup Games, FA Cup Finals and England Internationals

Should it hold a special place in the Football History of England (and the World) and receive the protection it deserves.

Just finking like ..........

Great Idea

 

[Deleted member 875]

Also it has the honour of hosting an Ashes test match, the only ground I think apart from the Oval that has hosted a first class test match and an FA Cup Final.

That is right.

 

[2ndtenorblade]

Plus it would fuck that cunt McCabe off.

 

[StarBlade]

Good idea, but unlikely to happen.

There is nothing historic about BDTBL, other than the location. All the historic parts have been built over through continual progress.

Also, this is Sheffield, true home of the sport that hundreds of millions of people are fanatical about and we're not even on the footballing map, mainly due to our (Sheffield) own incompetence and lack of imagination.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Good idea, but unlikely to happen.

There is nothing historic about BDTBL, other than the location. All the historic parts have been built over through continual progress.

Also, this is Sheffield, true home of the sport that hundreds of millions of people are fanatical about and we're not even on the footballing map, mainly due to our (Sheffield) own incompetence and lack of imagination.

Its not one of the stands but the site that needs protection.

Listed as a ground with special or historic interest would forever stop it being knocked down and turned to housing so worthless to old McC.

Get it done.

 

[TarquinDelouche]

We'd also not be able to improve it either. So when we're playing in Europe in five years we'll be welcoming the likes of Juventus and Barcelona with a crowd of thirty thousand.

 

[Latters]

We'd also not be able to improve it either. So when we're playing in Europe in five years we'll be welcoming the likes of Juventus and Barcelona with a crowd of thirty thousand.

You'd be able to make additions or changes to it as long as they were reversible and identifiable, according to conservation laws. This is with the proper permission, of course.

Although, as has been mentioned, the original ground is long gone so there isn't much to list.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

The preservation order would probably be to retain the site as a venue for professional sport as that is where the heritage and special interest lies, rather than buildings and structures per se.

There may be something in this.

 

[oldblade]

Bramall Lane - the oldest major league (although that's now debateable) football ground in the world. A ground where football used to be played, but isn't any more.

 

[Toronto Blade]

If Bramall lane was in the States it would be trumpeted round the world as the home of it's sport.
The Sheffield council don't even want it as a World Cup venue, tiny minds.

 

[vorpal blade]

NO

as Tarquin Delouche said, it'd be an anvil around the neck of the club. Listing makes redevelopment very very awkward. The only old bit left (I think) is the actual terrace and mound of the kop and as anyone who has had the discomfort of sitting in it knows its the stand most in need of pulling down and starting again!

Possibly the back wall of the old terrace along Bramall Lane I spose, but to be frank, I don't think its of anything more than local interest (actually, not even that).

Worksop 2, are you thinking that if it had some sort of preservation order, it may be the only way the place could be saved when the club finally reaches the end of the road and the land would have to be sold just to pay the taxman? in which case, I see your point.

I can only think of Highbury that had to be saved because it was listed and that has been turned into a bizarre up-market housing estate. The stands at Highbury were grand Art Deco concrete with the odd bit lined in marble. Ours were corrugated tin with accents of asbestos, thats why they were judged worthless. BTW the cricket pavillion would have been listed if it were still standing.

 

[Ashtonsmashton]

If Man U played there yes , but a npl1 team, no

 

[grafikhaus]

Bramall Lane - the oldest major league (although that's now debateable) football ground in the world. A ground where football used to be played, but isn't any more.

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[norfolkblade]

It's also hosted a Football Aid match, which I had the pleasure to be a part of last Friday evening.

George Long, you have been warned

 

[Rodders]

Interestingly enough, Oxford fans have gone down a similar route - I think this is just linked with any potential sale of the ground, not re-development:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22509557