Ayresome Park in the 40s

fmttmadmin said:
You say 1940s - was this after WWII? If so look at the lack of bomb damage. It always intrigues me how little bombing there was in Middlesbrough compared to Hull.
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One reason was that the German pilots hated missions to Teesside was that they said the sky was always lit up at night from the different steel works so they could not hide. It was also quite difficult to access from their airfields. The common one used was Eindhoven and Hull would have been closer. The Germans didn't have the long range heavy bombers that say we and the Americans had. I also think it was easier to defend the approachs to the Tees. One of my aunties sister brought a German bomber down with a barrage ballon over the Tees.

Rob - Have you got the book "Luftwaffe over the North" by Bill Norman? see link

It has information about the attacks on Central Middlesbrough and the German plane that came down on the Eston Hills.

Luftwaffe Over the North: Episodes in an Air War, 1939-1943 (Pen & Sword Paperback): Amazon.co.uk: Norman, Bill: 9780850525298: Books

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The RAF photo has the 1937 South Stand (larger) and the Holgate covered.

Ref Bomb damage - a German plane dropped bombs on what was later a Co-op store on Linthorpe Road and some houses on Woodlands Road near Victoria Road, after bombing the railway station which lost its glass roof. I think its the station on the front of the book I have just copied and pasted. The copy I have is hardbook and has a different front.
 
Middlesbrough v Sunderland, 07 February 1981
Score1-0 to Middlesbrough
CompetitionLeague Division One
VenueAyresome Park, Middlesbrough
Attendance35,065

1Middlesbrough
Goals:
Graeme HedleyG

Jim Platt
Right back
Irving Nattrass
Tony McAndrew
Ian Bailey
David Armstrong
Graeme Hedley
Mark Proctor
Billy Ashcroft
Terry Cochrane
David Hodgson
Bozo Jankovic you can see him in the picture
The famous Hedley free kick I'm sure I've seen on YouTube but I can't find it
 
HolgateCorner said:
That Burnley match should never have been played, the pitch looked terrible. How could Mannion weave his magic on a skating rink? Must have been a leveller in Burnley’s favour. I’m sure my Dad mentioned a bad linesman’s decision against the Boro as well.
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I think that dodgy decision was the first goal in the video on 42 seconds. You can see no. 11 start to celebrate, then stop.

It was direct from a Johnny Spuhler free kick, but was disallowed for offside. I don't know by who, though, because the linesman's stood behind the goal for some reason and doesn't make any signal.
 
fmttmadmin said:
You say 1940s - was this after WWII? If so look at the lack of bomb damage. It always intrigues me how little bombing there was in Middlesbrough compared to Hull.
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The Germans would have known all about steelmaking and heavy industry, and maybe decided that, given it's loosely coupled processing and robust structures, it would pay off more to attack 'finished product' targets like ball bearing factories and shipyards. Also, they maybe had a more 'target rich' proposition on the Tyne.
 
fmttmadmin said:
You say 1940s - was this after WWII? If so look at the lack of bomb damage. It always intrigues me how little bombing there was in Middlesbrough compared to Hull.
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I lived in Buxton Street in the centre of Middlesbrough. A bomb apparently hit our street and levelled about 2 terraced houses on our side, we lived about 20 houses away.
The plot remained a bomb site until the council decided to finished the job and demolished the whole area.
 
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