Westgate aerial shots

Westgate aerial shots

Postby Christies Child » Fri May 22, 2009 7:51 pm

http://www.morecambestadium.co.uk/gallery.asp

A couple of excellent aerial shots of the cleared Westgate site are now on the above.

Not sure if Gnasher was strapped to a powered micro-lite piloted by Martin Hodgson to take 'em though. ;) ;) ;)
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Heysham_Shrimp » Fri May 22, 2009 8:41 pm

Christies Child wrote:http://www.morecambestadium.co.uk/gallery.asp

A couple of excellent aerial shots of the cleared Westgate site are now on the above.

Not sure if Gnasher was strapped to a powered micro-lite piloted by Martin Hodgson to take 'em though. ;) ;) ;)



I believe the MBI's offered to send Gnasher up in a micro-lite :lol:
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Gnasher » Fri May 22, 2009 11:24 pm

Keep up at the back there :roll:

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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Aspers » Sat May 23, 2009 7:14 am

I didn't see any ariel shots :(
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Little Shrimp » Sat May 23, 2009 7:37 am

I've played at Westgtes ground twice before. It's an OK pitch.
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby morecambe mick » Sat May 23, 2009 9:09 am

Little Shrimp wrote:I've played at Westgtes ground twice before. It's an OK pitch.


What were you playing, golf?

The pitch my lad played on was awful, the first time we played there we lost two kids in the muddy puddle it was that deep!!
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Little Shrimp » Sat May 23, 2009 9:34 am

I played footy and it didn't have a puddle of mud when I went. Both times the pitch was a bit hard.
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby steve mfc » Sat May 23, 2009 5:59 pm

morecambe mick wrote:
Little Shrimp wrote:I've played at Westgtes ground twice before. It's an OK pitch.


What were you playing, golf?

The pitch my lad played on was awful, the first time we played there we lost two kids in the muddy puddle it was that deep!!


I believe piling work is to start soon, get the feeling that they will be going down pretty far.
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Gnasher » Sat May 23, 2009 8:08 pm

Here's another one not quite relevant to the new site gallery ;)

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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Christies Child » Sat May 23, 2009 8:21 pm

It's served us well for all these years....but all good things have to come to an end.
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby RedRedWine1 » Sat May 23, 2009 9:40 pm

I always thought that we'd be really constrained by Lancaster Road in developing the Car Wash side of the ground. Looking at that picture there seems ample room, but probably not for all the other facilities the club are building at Westgate. Makes you wonder why Sainsbury's are so keen to have the plot (the way it was reported it appeared a great deal for MFC). I know location wise it is probably more central to the town, but I can't see the store that gets built being that big.

It will be sad when we finally leave though.
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Postby Curly » Sat May 23, 2009 10:03 pm

RedRedWine wrote:I always thought that we'd be really constrained by Lancaster Road in developing the Car Wash side of the ground. Looking at that picture there seems ample room, but probably not for all the other facilities the club are building at Westgate. Makes you wonder why Sainsbury's are so keen to have the plot (the way it was reported it appeared a great deal for MFC). I know location wise it is probably more central to the town,but I can't see the store that gets built, being that big.


It will be sad when we finally leave though.


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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Wild Bill » Sun May 24, 2009 8:13 am

Gnasher wrote:Here's another one not quite relevant to the new site gallery ;)

Christie Park.jpg


That's a great shot! No doubt in a year time someone will get a snap of Christie at the last ever game and make a lot of money selling the image. I will certainly have one. :D
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Christies Child » Sun May 24, 2009 9:13 am

RedRedWine wrote:I always thought that we'd be really constrained by Lancaster Road in developing the Car Wash side of the ground. Looking at that picture there seems ample room, but probably not for all the other facilities the club are building at Westgate. Makes you wonder why Sainsbury's are so keen to have the plot (the way it was reported it appeared a great deal for MFC). I know location wise it is probably more central to the town, but I can't see the store that gets built being that big.

It will be sad when we finally leave though.


Christie Park site is larger than Sainsbury's Deedale site at Preston and is comparable with that at Bamber Bridge. Could be wrong ( :shock: ) but may even be comparable with the Asda site on Morecambe Road.
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Heysham_Shrimp » Sun May 24, 2009 9:25 am

the club could make a few quid by having one of those aerial shots of the ground done at our last home game (as long as its not a night game !) and selling them framed at £25 each.
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Heysham_Shrimp » Sun May 24, 2009 9:29 am

RedRedWine wrote:I always thought that we'd be really constrained by Lancaster Road in developing the Car Wash side of the ground. Looking at that picture there seems ample room, but probably not for all the other facilities the club are building at Westgate. Makes you wonder why Sainsbury's are so keen to have the plot (the way it was reported it appeared a great deal for MFC). I know location wise it is probably more central to the town, but I can't see the store that gets built being that big.

It will be sad when we finally leave though.


it wasn't so much the land constraints (although the long lease on the Car wash would be a problem) so much as where would the cash come from to develop that side of the ground without the sale of the land.
Also at Christie we would still have been left without proper training pitches or the other money making franchises etc.
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Gnasher » Sun May 24, 2009 9:32 am

They aren't the club's photos, or mine, to do anything with.
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby Little Shrimp » Sun May 24, 2009 9:33 am

I wonder where Westgate will play now?
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Re: Westgate aerial shots

Postby heysham_mfc » Sun May 24, 2009 9:35 am

Little Shrimp wrote:I wonder where Westgate will play now?

on the new site at the back of Heysham High School
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