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

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There are also chapters focusing on aspects of football grounds that have been forgotten - dugouts, segregation divides and more. 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. Author Steve Finan has spent the past three years immersed in photo archives looking for never-before-published material.

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. However the edition that arrived was not the same as pictured therefore unsuitable for our collection. The vast majority of players featured would be Scottish born and, hard though it may be to conceive, most of the grounds may actually have been built with Scottish-produced steel – changes in football only mirror changes in society.V. deals ruined British football (along with the Bosman Ruling) and just about destroyed fans' links with their local clubs. The photos record fans celebrating the old times, the Fergie era, the cup finals, the silverware kisses, the greatest migration of football fans Scotland has ever seen and, of course, the glory that was Gothenburg. Equally astonishing is a photo of Ibrox from the early 1960s where the aerial photo emphasises the whiteness of the uncovered terracing behind the goal.

From industrial designer to tour guide to gardener; Alistair’s life has taken him through many twists and turns from his origins in Glasgow until he settled in Arran 20 years ago. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Three years in the making, Steve has brought together a fabulous selection of archive images, some never-before-seen or have lain unseen for decades in the archive.

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.

The aim is to celebrate the experiences of standing in a swaying, tight-packed, excited/angry/celebrating/commiserating/local-derby-fevered football crowd.

Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. These are the places where your Grandfather, Father, Uncles, Brothers and friends exulted and cursed. As the veteran journalist Chick Young says in the foreword, these are photos of the “good old, bad old days”. We really enjoyed the book and liked reminiscing about grounds we’ve been to and how they’ve changed over time.

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. I’m putting together a book – a photo-led nostalgia book, not entirely a history tome – about how grounds used to look in the black and white era before the Taylor Report swept away standing terraces. Delve into vintage photos of Scottish football stadiums and crowds that have lain unseen, in archives and rarely accessed collections, for decades. The runaway success of 2018’s best-selling Lifted Over The Turnstiles proved there are few things that stir the pride of a football fan more than photos of the most iconic buildings they have ever known – their club’s home ground. Lifted Over The Turnstiles Volumes 2 and 3 are, as former Scotland boss Craig Brown says in his foreword, “A photographic masterpiece.Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . Our headquarters are in Dundee but we also have offices in Glasgow, Aberdeen and London – in the world-famous Fleet Street. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. While the majority of images focus on packed or barren terraces and small stands representing an oasis of shelter on the halfway line, some are a commemoration of unique events, such as the Third Lanark player using a pneumatic drill to break up the ice on a frozen pitch. Looking at grounds across the country, each volume contains around 700 photos of Scottish football grounds, players and crowd scenes.