Following on from how a previous post was received I thought that I would do a follow up and show how other parts of our dear old ground looked 30 years (yes, 30 years!) ago. No complaining then about having to stand and watch the Imps on an uncovered terrace during a rain storm. If you wanted to watch the Imps then you paid your brass and then had to endure whatever the elements threw at you.
I well remember standing on this Terrace watching the Imps play out a 1-1 draw with Torquay United on 17/3/1987, along with my brother and 1,184 other hardy soles (total attendance of 1,186 for the mathematicians amongst us and, if I am correct, City's lowest ever crowd for a Football League game), on a dreadful, midweek, night. How we didn't win that night I will never know, but we didn't, having hit the woodwork on a number of occasions. Had we won then we would have had 2 points more and Torquay one less and it wouldn't have mattered one jot how many players police dog Bryn bit a few weeks later.
The date of 17/02/1990 is significant. On that date the Imps played Colchester United, ending up winning the match 2-1 in front of 3,284 spectators. It was the last league match that fans were allowed to use the old Railway Terrace End. The last ever time that fans were able to see a match from the old Railway Terrace End, again if my memory is correct, was a few days later on 19/02/1990 when City beat Moscow Torpedo 2-1 in a friendly (obviously).
Over the course of the next few days I will post a few more photos of this part of the ground and the Railway End Terrace. Hopefully, it will give younger viewers of this forum an idea of what the ground used to look like before its conversion to an all seater stadium, and will stir a few more memories for us older folk.