Dens Park Through The Years

[Gnasher]

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/picture-gallery-dundee-fc-s-dens-park-through-the-years-1.843079

[JoeCovenant]

Nice pics, but noticed the wee dig in the opening paragraph....

[Donny O]

Some amazing images.Love the one of the Derry being built plus the image of Dens Park in April 1975 is the way I loved Dens Park the most with no benches and the two enclosures!

[JoeCovenant]

Some amazing images.Love the one of the Derry being built plus the image of Dens Park in April 1975 is the way I loved Dens Park the most with no benches and the two enclosures!

I like the one where you see us stowed out, and the dump is hardly occupied... (and looking like they're playing on the snow!!!)

[skullduggery]

Pic no4. No a hard hat or any HiVis in sight. 

[Donny O]

I seem to recall an article years back which said that The Provie Road enclosure was originally intended for the TC Keay end. Any truth in this?

Good seeing all the wee pie stalls/huts that used to be dotted round the place-forgot about those!

[Derry Drummer]

I like the one where you see us stowed out, and the dump is hardly occupied... (and looking like they're playing on the snow!!!)

Were we both playing on the same day at home?

[87DEE]

Great pictures, my old boys still got a bit of bench from the Provie Road, I need to get that sanded, repainted and put in my garden!

[tommy the tap in king]

Were we both playing on the same day at home?

scottish cup games both drawn at home.

[Riodee]

I think I am in the first fotty. Somewhere ! I was normally TC Keay end lad.

[WoodStein]

JoeCovenant, on 24 Feb 2015 - 2:12 PM, said:JoeCovenant, on 24 Feb 2015 - 2:12 PM, said:JoeCovenant, on 24 Feb 2015 - 2:12 PM, said:JoeCovenant, on 24 Feb 2015 - 2:12 PM, said:

I like the one where you see us stowed out, and the dump is hardly occupied... (and looking like they're playing on the snow!!!)

DerryDrummer, on 24 Feb 2015 - 3:40 PM, said:DerryDrummer, on 24 Feb 2015 - 3:40 PM, said:DerryDrummer, on 24 Feb 2015 - 3:40 PM, said:DerryDrummer, on 24 Feb 2015 - 3:40 PM, said:

Were we both playing on the same day at home?

There were occasionally 2 games on together, though the only examples I recall were cup matches in the mid 1960's.....there was a ludicrous 6-5 win for the Arabs over Hearts (or the other way round?)....I forget who we were playing, but our curiosity was what all the noise was about, from over the road....till we heard the final score! 

Before the 1960's, of course, the Arabs were always in Division 2, so clashing league matches was possible & would have presented no issues for the police, with 20,000-40,000 inside Dens & 200 or so inside Tannadice

The photo Joe refers to.... "stowed out" perhaps a slight exaggeration, you can count the TC Keay end "crowd" on two hands! 1976 was early in our downward spiral, but crowds had dropped a lot by then. Joe, I suspect the "snow" over the road might be wet sand   

Incidentally, the second photo in the sequence (with both grounds), is early 60's not 1955. Dens has floodlight pylons in it, which are seen being built in the fourth photo, in 1959. Tannadice has its new "Shed", but still has the rickety wee wooden stand where the Tinfoil Stand for people with short legs was eventually built. I recall a game with Hibs at Dens around 1963-4, standing in the TC Keay end before kick-off, and a young Hibs fan pointed over at Tannadice & asked us "what's that?......is it a Junior team's ground"

What is interesting is to look back & compare each club's "cycles of prosperity / demise", and realise that it's rare for both to be thriving or both to be struggling, at the same time. But then, I only own dark blue books, so I'd need foreign advice on the Arabs highs & lows!

[cookie]

 The day Hearts won 6-5 at Tanadice, we played Rangers. It was one of my first matches. We drew 1-1.