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Post by Thor on Oct 11, 2022 11:44:16 GMT
This must be proper rare footage. The comment on the video says its Lea Bridge Rd and Mill fields.
Anyone know any of the players in the video?
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Post by mrb on Oct 11, 2022 12:01:58 GMT
I love these
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Post by Fisch on Oct 11, 2022 12:07:57 GMT
This looks like a time when you could be offside from a throw-in.
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Post by tattyfilarious on Oct 11, 2022 13:47:40 GMT
Wood in goal and he made his debut 3 September 1921. I think.
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Post by BasOfromthatLondon on Oct 11, 2022 17:44:42 GMT
Is that a big hill over yonder, Lea Bridge Rd and Mill fields it ain't, if it is.
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Post by disoriented on Oct 12, 2022 5:35:36 GMT
I think I saw boarder Dennis Rofe in the crowd in this footage.😉
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Post by sommeboysteve on Oct 12, 2022 10:34:32 GMT
Is that a big hill over yonder, Lea Bridge Rd and Mill fields it ain't, if it is. |
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Post by sommeboysteve on Oct 12, 2022 10:37:01 GMT
This is definately Millfields Road, and the 'big hill' is the O's Spion Kop. A huge gun was installed on the Kop during the Great War.
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Post by dennisrofe on Oct 12, 2022 11:09:40 GMT
I think I saw boarder Dennis Rofe in the crowd in this footage.😉 More likely my dad to be in the crowd, he used to go and watch the Os back then.
Goalkeeper Woods must have been young then, later on he became known as ''Fatty Woods'' !
I have been ill for the last week, recovering from an operation and still feeling very weak, plus left knee gave way, very painful and still unable to even hobble around, so an awful last week or so.
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Post by BasOfromthatLondon on Oct 12, 2022 14:05:59 GMT
This is definately Millfields Road, and the 'big hill' is the O's Spion Kop. A huge gun was installed on the Kop during the Great War. I wasn't aware of any hill, especially of that size, in that area. Looks more like Wales or somewhere up north. I also thought Spion Kop was a northern term, I've never heard that term being used down here. With your username I'm guessing you know more about this than I do. Thanks for the info. |
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Post by Fisch on Oct 12, 2022 15:00:27 GMT
Is that a big hill over yonder, Lea Bridge Rd and Mill fields it ain't, if it is. From a local history website about Millfields stadium..... "In 1896 Clapton Orient moved to the site from Pond Land Bridge, after which it became known as Millfields Road. The football club began redeveloping the stadium, with large embankments built around the pitch using slag from an adjacent power station." Probably explains that big hill. |
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Post by BasOfromthatLondon on Oct 12, 2022 15:21:31 GMT
Is that a big hill over yonder, Lea Bridge Rd and Mill fields it ain't, if it is. From a local history website about Millfields stadium..... "In 1896 Clapton Orient moved to the site from Pond Land Bridge, after which it became known as Millfields Road. The football club began redeveloping the stadium, with large embankments built around the pitch using slag from an adjacent power station." Probably explains that big hill. I was thinking slag heap, must of been de-slagged before I ventured over that way. |
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Post by sommeboysteve on Oct 12, 2022 15:31:24 GMT
This is definately Millfields Road, and the 'big hill' is the O's Spion Kop. A huge gun was installed on the Kop during the Great War. I wasn't aware of any hill, especially of that size, in that area. Looks more like Wales or somewhere up north. I also thought Spion Kop was a northern term, I've never heard that term being used down here. With your username I'm guessing you know more about this than I do. Thanks for the info. |
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Post by redintheface on Oct 12, 2022 15:55:36 GMT
This is definately Millfields Road, and the 'big hill' is the O's Spion Kop. A huge gun was installed on the Kop during the Great War. I wasn't aware of any hill, especially of that size, in that area. Looks more like Wales or somewhere up north. I also thought Spion Kop was a northern term, I've never heard that term being used down here. With your username I'm guessing you know more about this than I do. Thanks for the info. Definitely not a northern term. It has its origins from a hillside battle in the Boer War. On Higham Hill in Walthamstow there was natural mound of roughly half an acre that was originally called “ Hilly Field” which was nicknamed “ Spion Kop” around about that time . Apparently before there was a council estate built on the site around Gurney Close there were excellent views across the reservoirs looking toward Tottenham marshes!👍 |
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Post by sommeboysteve on Oct 12, 2022 15:56:31 GMT
The term Spion Kop, originates from the Boer War, in which it is reported 300 British soldiers - mostly from Lancashire, were killed attempting to capture a hill-top. This made headlines in the newspapers, resulting in the general public often giving the nickname 'Spion Kop', to tall embankments, terracing etc, hence Millfields with its huge mound acquiring a 'Kop'. The O's were decimated after the Great War - both on the pitch and financially, off it. The board and the Club struggled on for a number of years before a new consortium took over, which over a period of time, made life financially even harder for the O's and eventually forcing the Club out of Millfields in 1930, when the Orient moved to Lea Bridge Stadium to share with Lea Bridge Speedway Team (bottom of Rigg Approach E10). Lea Bridge was a cramped and barren stadium, and it was whilst here, the Club played two League games at Wembley Stadium; versus Brentford and Southend, whilst alterations were made to the terrace fencing around the pitch that was deemed to be too close to the touch-line.
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Post by BasOfromthatLondon on Oct 12, 2022 16:16:38 GMT
I wasn't aware of any hill, especially of that size, in that area. Looks more like Wales or somewhere up north. I also thought Spion Kop was a northern term, I've never heard that term being used down here. With your username I'm guessing you know more about this than I do. Thanks for the info. Definitely not a northern term. It has its origins from a hillside battle in the Boer War. On Higham Hill in Walthamstow there was natural mound of roughly half an acre that was originally called “ Hilly Field” which was nicknamed “ Spion Kop” around about that time . Apparently before there was a council estate built on the site around Gurney Close there were excellent views across the reservoirs looking toward Tottenham marshes!👍 This is like the history channel. The reservoirs are are a good marker for knowing where you are coming into Heathrow. Unless you're sitting on the other side, and at night, haha. I've never seen the O's ground from a plane, probably directly underneath. |
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Post by redshank on Oct 12, 2022 16:26:56 GMT
Enjoyed that Thor and the comments.I purchased one of those flat caps the O's supporters were wearing.Would love to see the film colourised and digitalised.The O's shirts looked great.
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Post by Thor on Oct 12, 2022 19:39:26 GMT
This thread is absolute gold. I'm learning so much here with the kop something I've never heard of.
Please keep sharing the knowledge this is really good and interesting.
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Post by sidmouth on Oct 12, 2022 20:25:45 GMT
I think this was fascinating, as was the pitchside advertising for Bovril and Drinkmore Whisky.
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Post by disoriented on Oct 13, 2022 3:39:20 GMT
I think I saw boarder Dennis Rofe in the crowd in this footage.😉 More likely my dad to be in the crowd, he used to go and watch the Os back then.
Goalkeeper Woods must have been young then, later on he became known as ''Fatty Woods'' !
I have been ill for the last week, recovering from an operation and still feeling very weak, plus left knee gave way, very painful and still unable to even hobble around, so an awful last week or so.
Sorry to hear that Den. I hope the pain subsides. Best wishes for your recovery. |
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