Lifted Over The Turnstiles: Scotland's Football Grounds In The Black & White Era: 1

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Our headquarters are in Dundee but we also have offices in Glasgow, Aberdeen and London – in the world-famous Fleet Street. While the majority of images focus on packed or barren terraces and small stands representing an oasis of shelter on the halfway line, some are a commemoration of unique events, such as the Third Lanark player using a pneumatic drill to break up the ice on a frozen pitch.

The vast majority of players featured would be Scottish born and, hard though it may be to conceive, most of the grounds may actually have been built with Scottish-produced steel – changes in football only mirror changes in society.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This well-produced illustrated book is a second volume containing hundreds of classic archive photographs of Scottish football stadia, many of which have lain unseen in archives and rarely-accessed collections for decades.

A fantastic range of images, supported by some interesting newspaper articles and informative text, quickly dispensed any fears of a lament to times past. From industrial designer to tour guide to gardener; Alistair’s life has taken him through many twists and turns from his origins in Glasgow until he settled in Arran 20 years ago. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. On first seeing this book, I worried that it might be another homage to the “golden age” of Scottish football, where everything, invariably, was so much better than it is now. As the veteran journalist Chick Young says in the foreword, these are photos of the “good old, bad old days”.This well-produced illustrated book is a third volume containing hundreds of classic archive photographs of Scottish football stadia, many of which have lain unseen in archives and rarely-accessed collections for decades. Hibs, Dundee United, Aberdeen, Rangers, Motherwell, Kilmarnock and more feature in Volume 2 as well as a lengthy look at Hampden. Wally Talbot and his son Howard (both sadly deceased) were Blackburn based photographers who captured images, in and around Blackburn, over many years.