24 years ago today...

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 2:14 pm

56 people died in the Valley Parade Football Stadium fire in Bradford. sadx

nelsons head · **Joined:** Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:50 pm **Posts:** 35

I remember watching it, as it happened, a tragic day.

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 2:28 pm

MadJohn wrote:

shiit, I didn't know it was the anniversary. I've always thought of 11th May as a day to celebrate - 1991 promotion and all that. confised

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8043539.stm

WestParkPoolie · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 2:35 pm

Your heart just sinks when you think of what happened - frightening and tragic.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 3:08 pm

MadJohn wrote:

I've always thought of 11th May as a day to celebrate - 1991 promotion and all that. confised

It's all right; you're also allowed to celebrate good stuff.

appleyapper · **Joined:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:25 pm **Posts:** 483

I used to teach a boy whose grandfather died at that match it was so sad I remember it very well.

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 4:45 pm

Were pools at home that day seem to remember cominh home and it was on the telly.

Tragic.

Frodraff · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 5:42 pm

It was approximately five years before the birth of POK. Does he have to trawl stuff like this to indulge in another attention seeking excercise. Everyone has the right, but really... :roll:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 7:11 pm

sorry, but....as a Pools fan I remember May 11th 1991 as the best day of my football supporting life!! Long live Baker, Allon, Dalton, Honour , McKinnon etc!!!!!

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 10:24 pm

Frodraff wrote:

It was approximately five years before the birth of POK. Does he have to trawl stuff like this to indulge in another attention seeking excercise. Everyone has the right, but really... :roll:

My aim was not to seek attention, Frodraff, it was to reflect on the horrible loss in yet another tragic football stadium disaster and look at how far professional football has come 24 years on. :roll:

I may not have been born at the time of the fire, but I still know because of the repercussions that match had - The Taylor Report which forced 'Pools to re-build the Mill House Stand etc.

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5096

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Frodraff wrote:

It was approximately five years before the birth of POK. Does he have to trawl stuff like this to indulge in another attention seeking excercise. Everyone has the right, but really... :roll:

My aim was not to seek attention, Frodraff, it was to reflect on the horrible loss in yet another tragic football stadium disaster and look at how far professional football has come 24 years on. :roll:

I may not have been born at the time of the fire, but I still know because of the repercussions that match had - The Taylor Report which forced 'Pools to re-build the Mill House Stand etc.

or the clarence road stand even :roll:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 10:29 pm

It didn't even exist then - I saw one of the DVDs from the 90s MadJohn sent and watched the derby against Darlo 16 years ago. I saw just two dugouts with white huts but no stand there.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 11:12 pm

The Taylor report did a good job of anticipating the Hillsborough disaster then, didn't it. Or maybe the Hillsborough disaster managed to slip in between Bradford and Taylor. confised

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 11:14 pm

I think you are getting a bit mixed up there POK!!!! confised

It was the Clarence Road Stand that went after the Bradford Tragedy....The Mill House Stand has been there for a good 40 years....(I think)!!!! :uhoh:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 11:23 pm

I remember when it was opened. A PROPER stand at Pools for the first time.
We still all went in the Rink End like.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 11:44 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

Mill House stand built 1970!

39 years Mutley, unlucky!!! clappp

BUGGER!!!! banghead

Frodraff · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 12:43 am

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Frodraff wrote:

It was approximately five years before the birth of POK. Does he have to trawl stuff like this to indulge in another attention seeking excercise. Everyone has the right, but really... :roll:

My aim was not to seek attention, Frodraff, it was to reflect on the horrible loss in yet another tragic football stadium disaster and look at how far professional football has come 24 years on. :roll:

I may not have been born at the time of the fire, but I still know because of the repercussions that match had - The Taylor Report which forced 'Pools to re-build the Mill House Stand etc.

I considered being really cruel here but decided that it's only a message board and I've got more to worry about than this.

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 1:37 pm

I stand corrected, then.

But the Report still meant things had to change dramatically at all football grounds in terms of safety and it changed the Vic for the better.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 1:45 pm

I think you'll find it was Harold Hornsey who changed the Vic for the better. :wink:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 1:48 pm

Well, in terms of what the thread was originally about, which was about the Bradford City fire, that's by the by.

There's no doubt though that Harold Hornsey was a great chairman for the Club, even if I don't remember much about him.

Compo · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 2:03 pm

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Well, in terms of what the thread was originally about, which was about the Bradford City fire, that's by the by.

There's no doubt though that Harold Hornsey was a great chairman for the Club, even if I don't remember much about him.

Hartlepool owe everything to Harold Hornsey, he is a legend in my eyes, do we have anything to remember him by in the club as I am unsure?

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 2:05 pm

Isn't there the Harold Hornsey Suite?

parmopooly · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 5:45 pm

I'm losing the will to live...................

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