Lane Redevelopment 1982

[North East Blade]

These pictures, dated 1982 and showing a planned redevelopment of Bramall Lane, have just been discovered in The Star's archive. It's fascinating to see how the ideas proposed then are being mirrored now.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

Looks a horrible hotch-potch, don’t you think?

 

[metalblade]

Sheffield Council did us a big favour rejecting that in hindsight.

 

[Topplayersleave]

Sheffield Council did us a big favour rejecting that in hindsight.

Too right, I didn't think it was possible to get fans any further from the pitch than at Bramall Lane.
Also there'd have been no room for the hotel on Bramall lane end

 

[Harry's Game]

Sheffield Council did us a big favour rejecting that in hindsight.

Fully agree in trying to hamstring us the likes of Betts on the Council who rejected it inadvertently did us a favour.

Leaving Aside the horrible design It would have been an utter disaster to embark on such a risky venture in the boom and bust 80s

 

[North East Blade]

What would the capacity have been looks well under 20k

 

[SwissBlade]

Looks a horrible hotch-potch, don’t you think?

Looks bloody awful, Nothing seems to tie in at all!

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

Looks bloody awful, Nothing seems to tie in at all!

Bits of 4 different grounds banged together. William Burroughs’ “cut up” technique for writing ... transposed to architecture

 

[1889]

I like it, half Football Stadium, half Colosseum.

At the end of the game, Wilder could give the thumb down and the officials could be mauled by half a dozen Lions. Sounds like a winner to me

 

[I'll tell me dad.]

I think its prompted me to invent a new word - oddstresting.

 

[bladesrus]

What would the capacity have been looks well under 20k

At the time as far as I can recall it was 30,000 'ish all seater, preempting Hillsborough disaster and the Taylor report by several years.
Hated the design at the time and also hated the piggy council for blocking it

 

[North East Blade]

At the time as far as I can recall it was 30,000 'ish all seater, preempting Hillsborough disaster and the Taylor report by several years.
Hated the design at the time and also hated the piggy council for blocking it

I think your right but it doesn’t look bigger than the Lane does now at just over 30k

 

[SwissBlade]

Bits of 4 different grounds banged together. William Burroughs’ “cut up” technique for writing ... transposed to architecture

The kop looks like they’ve cut a picture of some South American World Cup ground out of a sticker book and plonked it on

 

[bladesrus]

I think your right but it doesn’t look bigger than the Lane does now at just over 30k

No I don't think it was and the main reason I hated it was it would have been almost impossible to expand in the future short of complete rebuild.

 

[stringjunior]

I remember seeing the mock up at the lane at an open day. I was quite impressed as an 8 year old kid

 

[Bladesman]

What the smeg is that little building to the left of the South Stand on Bramall Lane meant to be?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

What the smeg is that little building to the left of the South Stand on Bramall Lane meant to be?

I just assumed that was the design of a 1982 budget hotel.

 

[SwissBlade]

What the smeg is that little building to the left of the South Stand on Bramall Lane meant to be?

It could be bloody anything looking at the rest of it!

What’s on the back of the kop? Looks like boxes facing out!

And it’s great how they couldn’t get the John street and kop to tie in back then either

 

[Bladesman]

It could be bloody anything looking at the rest of it!

What’s on the back of the kop? Looks like boxes facing out!

And it’s great how they couldn’t get the John street and kop to tie in back then either

Were a lot of archeticts on drugs during the early 80's?

 

[Russ]

At least it would have been the worlds best speedway stadium!!

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

View attachment 51604 These pictures, dated 1982 and showing a planned redevelopment of Bramall Lane, have just been discovered in The Star's archive. It's fascinating to see how the ideas proposed then are being mirrored now.

We signed Deane from Donny for 18K instead, always buy the striker instead of the ground development.

 

[bladesrus]

What the smeg is that little building to the left of the South Stand on Bramall Lane meant to be?

Think it was the inspiration behind the Pukka Pie Corner in the opposite corner. Never been able to see any point in that either.

 

[stringjunior]

At least it would have been the worlds best speedway stadium!!

Old Wembley?

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

I think the capacity was going to be nearer 50k and when it got rejected Brealy lost interest in pumping money into the club for incoming transfers ... so yeah the council did us a reyt favour ... and then they went and got the city in hock with the Don Valley disaster that we're still paying for now (when they've have paid zero if they'd have given the Lane development the green light).

 

[boo radley]

Yep on the back of that rejection it did us a right favour. Look at how we have been on the up ever since. Best period in our history followed.

 

[Tom Bott]

Love the retro style floodlight pylons, will they make a comeback like vinyl

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Love the retro style floodlight pylons, will they make a comeback like vinyl

And it had the mini pylon on top of John Street. I miss that pylon. I love a good floodlight me.

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Looks bloody awful, Nothing seems to tie in at all!

Designed by a committee....... Of women!

 

[JackSUFC]

 

[Broomhall Blade]

To be fair it was designed in the 80's and would be 37 years old now if it gone ahead.
Equally remember what the ground was like in the 80's the old John St and the kop, at the time the above plans would have been a major improvement on what we had then.
Stadium designs have also have come on 1000 fold in 37 years.
At least the back of the kop would have been undercover something thats still needed today.