| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 21:58 - Jan 28 with 194 views | WubbleU |
| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 21:38 - Jan 28 by Illinoisblue |
Curious why you would think it was AI generated? |
Just suspicious of the cricket boundary, I thought the cricket club left much earlier. It is clearly all good though.
In fact suspicious of everything I see!  |  | |  |
| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 22:00 - Jan 28 with 181 views | jasondozzell |
| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 21:42 - Jan 28 by DJR |
Fascinating also to see all the long disappeared houses. And at the top middle in white, I think you can make out the Black Horse, with the church (St. Peter's?) near to it.
Here's a link to a 1927 map which you can zoom in on to see the ground and stand.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/11450 [Post edited 28 Jan 21:52]
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St Mary's at the Elms? |  | | |
| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 22:16 - Jan 28 with 136 views | backwaywhen |
| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 21:50 - Jan 28 by DJR |
It only closed in 1985, and here's an article about it. I certainly remember it as a cattle market.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21 |
We as kids lived in Curriers Lane and spent many a happy time on the old cattle market , help the drivers wash down the cattle trucks with the water jets they had over there , go inside the auction rings and watch the bidding , finish off wandering to Alderman Rd park for a kick about ……Happy days back in the 60s. | | | |
| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 22:17 - Jan 28 with 138 views | Churchman |
The Chicken Run was built in about 1907. It is built on old waste ground, which you see the imprint of (the ground is darker). The Chicken Run was just that. When it wasn’t being used, the area under the stand was rented out to run chickens.
Behind the stand was trees, which are actually present in the photo in the attached (I make no apologies for posting this again) were blown down in a storm and removed before WW1.
https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/i
The pitch originally ran left to right more or less where Churchmans and the car park is now. Yes, that is the Churchmans cigarette factory. A number of the players went to work there during the war. My father actually played field hockey for them just after the war, strangely enough, before National Service kicked in..
Talking of that, the ground was turned over to the War Office in WW1 and it took two years after wars end to get the ground in a fit state to play. Ipswich Town were the only English club not to play match in either world war. Very much the ‘spirit of the amateur’ and duty before pleasure and all that.
Another odd fact - player’ kit was washed by somebody in Alderman Road (the road behind North Stand) back in the day.
Ipswich were one of the early adopters of goal nets in 1890 and the first game Ipswich played under lights was 17 December 1878 at the original Brooks Hall ground. A one off exhibition, the lights powered by two Ransomes engines.
Lastly, Everton were formed the same year as Ipswich Town, though their history took very different paths. [Post edited 28 Jan 22:24]
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| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 22:28 - Jan 28 with 112 views | WestStanderLaLaLa |
| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 21:42 - Jan 28 by DJR |
Fascinating also to see all the long disappeared houses. And at the top middle in white, I think you can make out the Black Horse, with the church (St. Peter's?) near to it.
Here's a link to a 1927 map which you can zoom in on to see the ground and stand.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/11450 [Post edited 28 Jan 21:52]
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The houses struck me too, wondering if the ones off Princes Street went after a flood event, I found this which has a view of Portman Road and a Pathe news reel
https://www.greatbritishlife.c |  |
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| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 22:41 - Jan 28 with 83 views | Freddies_Ears |
Note that the West terrace was still temporary up to then ( up to at least 1936), so it was removed for cricket each summer. The cricket pitch shown was for reserve fixtures; the main wicket was in the Fanzone area. | | | |
| Super Old pic of Portman Road on 00:41 - Jan 29 with 33 views | AbujaBlue |
Thanks for sharing this. I was randomly looking at the history of Portman Road on Wiki earlier today when I was supposed to be working and I was wondering what the cricket ground would have looked like. Fantastic timing!
On a slight sidenote, I visited the Genoa football museum last year and they had a fantastic set of models showing the development of their football ground(s) up to the current Luigi Ferraris stadium - including when it was a cricket ground. Wouldn't it be amazing if someone did the same for the different iterations of Portman Road? |  | | |
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