East End - Always Been Puzzled

[redysteadygo1]

As it is a quiet time while we await the new season, the fixtures to be released, any more transfer activity, etc I though here's my chance to raise a query. In 1957 I first stood at the front of the Open End ( Atyeo ) then later moved to the Covered End ( EE). Then for many years went off playing. During this time the name East End came into being. Presumably this was at the time that mass chanting groups began and each ground had to have it's own identity i.e. Liverpool Kop, Chelsea Shed etc.

At this time I thought it a strange name as I always considered the Covered End to be at the Southerly end of Ashton Gate. Nowadays you can check on Google Earth and probably South, South, East is the best compass point it can be described as. Can any of you East End aficionados out there enlighten me on the history of the EE i.e. when was if formed?, did we get the point of the compass wrong?, does East refer to something other than the compass point? etc.

Had it been named " South End " we could have incorporated a bit more of our history by including the original name of the team Bristol South End.

Many thanks

[Tall King Blox]

East Street, bloody miles away i know but we got to start somewhere !

[redsince82]

I may be wrong here, but i think the term East End actually originates and relates to the East end of the stand, where various characters would congregate, and not as a term originally intended to be used as the whole stand itself.

[cider head]

Ashton gate is on an angle and the corner blocks of the East end and Dolman stand face East and pretty much why the older lads stand in the corner on match days as that section is seen as ''The East end'' That corner over many years had groups of fans who kept this way of thinking and passed it down over the years and that's pretty much where the fans nick name for the stand came from

[redysteadygo1]

Thanks guys.Makes sense now.

[Threshersleftboot]

Iv'e always thought it should have been named as the Bell end.

[T R]

does this mean that the parkenders are the northerners?

northenders! northenders!

"keep off the north end!"

[Aizoon]

"The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south"

[City1970]

The plan of Bemmy shows North Street is opposite West Street and East Street is opposite South Street.

[BS4 on Tour...]

"The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south"

Now THAT is a top tune!

[Aizoon]

Now THAT is a top tune!

And the title is on-topic

[Cap flinger]

Back in the early 90s me and my mates used to call the area behind the goal in the east end the " red zone".

Anybody else heard of this name or was this just between me and my mates?

[pongo88]

The junction of the Open End and the Cow Shed enclosure (now the Atyeo and the Dolman) used to be called Crackers’ Corner. That’s a much better sort of name than the Park End.

[Tall King Blox]

Now THAT is a top tune!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIwRpFDZ8I

oHHH YESS.....friggin fukin caps

[stephenkibby.]

it was known as the east end when i first ventured in late 60s.

with no segragation it was sometimes manic in there. millwall in 70,71 springs to mind when it seemed like the entire end was like a war zone!

[City1970]

it was known as the east end when i first ventured in late 60s.

with no segragation it was sometimes manic in there. millwall in 70,71 springs to mind when it seemed like the entire end was like a war zone!

Those were the days. I remember Oxford in there, West Ham, Birmingham and 200 odd Spurs fans getting booted out and escorted around the ground to the open end.

[WhistleHappy]

.... think it could have been a poor attempt to disorientate the opposition, which only succeeded in confusing our lot ever since.

Since I've been watching us (late60's) no matter the hype, pub chat or what the the club says preseason, whoever the manager has been or messages coming from the chairmen etc..season by season despite new signings or favourite players departing I've almost always been taken by surprise by the actual direction the teams taken us in.. I blame the East End

"We dont know where we're going... We dont know where we're going! "

[Bobby kellard hero]

I stood in the covered end as it was called from 1958 til 1965 when I then moved to crackers corner on the open end until I got a season ticket in the grandstand in 74/75.I never heard of the term east end at that time so I suppose it must have come about in the late 60's early 70's.

[cider-manc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIwRpFDZ8I

oHHH YESS.....friggin fukin caps

Crazy to think they are still playing- this week in fact!

My dad never lets me forget that I never got to see the original line up. - I was only born 5 years after Moon's death!!!!

Born in the wrong era me.

[cider head]

Taken from Ashton gate 100 years book:

In 1916, the covered end was badly damaged by gales and in December the following year the roof was demolished after being declared unsafe. It was not until 1928 that the roof was replaced, paid for by the money which city had received from the transfers of Albert Keating and Clarrie Bourton, who were both sold to Blackburn rovers for a combined fee of £3,650. The structure that went up in the wake of their departure is still there today, known to home fans as the East End, Covered end or Winterstoke road end. Originally, it was affectionately referred to as the ''Keating Stand''. During the 1986-87 season the roof again was renewd and sheeted in red.

It appears that most names over the years have been fan nick names with the East end sticking, obviously the official stands name to date is The Wedlock Stand.