Lifted Over The Turnstiles: Scotland's Football Grounds In The Black & White Era: 1

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Well recommended even if you aren't one for Scottish football: they are well worth it for the photography and nostalgia alone!

A collection of hundreds of previously unseen photos of classic Scotland international football games. Apart from women in the crowd scenes, the other notable absentee is roofing which, along with decent toilet facilities, catering and safety barriers, all appear to be non-essential items in many of the grounds in the photos. Loved every word and loved every picture as this was a real trip down memory lane of some great wins and some bad defeats on cold Saturday afternoons or Wednesday nights. Perhaps it was the "away days" that were the best of all and all those scenes of triumph and disaster, joy and despair - are here. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab .Hallewell Publications is a small publishing house based in Argyll which concentrates largely on a single project: a popular series of walking guides which covers Scotland and selected areas of England.

The accompanying text explained something I was unaware of, in that their ground, Shielfield Park, is named after William Shiel Dods, a local butcher who gave the club the land to build on. Former Scotland Manager Craig Brown ( Volume 2 ) and former Scotland international, Leanne Crichton ( Volume 3 ) provide forewords football fans will love as they start their nostalgic trip down memory lane. At this point, I was actually turning the book 90 degrees to try to work out where things stood then and do now, among numerous images of terraces and stands long gone. Hibs, Dundee United, Aberdeen, Rangers, Motherwell, Kilmarnock and more feature in Volume 2 as well as a lengthy look at Hampden. A picture-led record of a man who was the architect of one of the greatest achievements in Scottish football history.

No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Squarely aimed at the sports nostalgia market, the book contains around 200 archive photos of team line-ups, action shots, spectators, Sevens tournaments, and the grounds where the game was played. He is a cobwebbed and dusty expert on newspaper and magazine archives and creates books, mainly drawing upon the extensive material in the DC Thomson archive. There are almost 200 photos of 42 football stadiums here that have lain unseen, in archives and rarely accessed collections, for decades.

Delve into 200 photos of Scottish football stadiums that have lain unseen, in archives and rarely accessed collections, for decades. Another bizarre image involves around 100 fans sitting in the skeleton of a new stand at Tannadice with no visible means of accessing the area in which they are sitting. Wally Talbot and his son Howard (both sadly deceased) were Blackburn based photographers who captured images, in and around Blackburn, over many years.This well-produced illustrated book is a second volume containing hundreds of classic archive photographs of Scottish football stadia, many of which have lain unseen in archives and rarely-accessed collections for decades.