Interesting stuff although ours isn't a genuine Leitch stand per se.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48028660
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48028660
But it was designed by Archibald Leitch and Partners, the company inherited and run by Leitch's son, also called Archibald!justanotherfan":yka60h4c said:Archibald Leitch died in 1939, stand constructed in 1952. Built to the design made famous by Leitch, but not in fact designed by the great man.
Since my biography of Leitch was published, the confirmed list of his clients has continued to grow. It now appears that he worked at Chesterfield’s Saltergate, and, as many had suspected, that after his death his company also designed the Mayflower Stand at Plymouth’s Home Park in the early 1950s. More on this – the Leitch company’s last commission before it was wound up in about 1956 – can be read in Russell Moore’s new history Home Park, a Pictorial History.
Argylegames":3vlyyq9h said:I have a book (somewhere) about Leitch and his stadia.
It lists every Leitch stand with photographs. No mention of HP.
We had a Leitch-style stand, we did not have a Leitch stand. In a few months time we will have neither, which is progress.
Like a lot of others I wish we could have afforded a stand that completed the horseshoe and completely removed the Leitch-style stand.
IJN":nwo2kycu said:The old White Hart Lane Grandstand going up.
No doubt in my mind what we've got.
Biggs":1m660ogt said:The Spurs stand construction in that article looks eerily similar to what we're seeing now.
And re the Leitch connection, ours was designed by the Archibald Leitch & Partners company, to a design used by the dead Archibald Leitch, overseen by his son Archibald Leitch Jr. You'd have to be monumentally uncharitable to say it isn't a Leitch stand, probably the same people who say Plymouth had nothing to do with the Mayflower.
The authority on football stadiums Simon Inglis acknowledges that the Home Park grandstand was the last Leitch design built...
Since my biography of Leitch was published, the confirmed list of his clients has continued to grow. It now appears that he worked at Chesterfield’s Saltergate, and, as many had suspected, that after his death his company also designed the Mayflower Stand at Plymouth’s Home Park in the early 1950s. More on this – the Leitch company’s last commission before it was wound up in about 1956 – can be read in Russell Moore’s new history Home Park, a Pictorial History.