Background…Until the recent constrution work, Villa Park was the only ground in Britain to have functioning stained glass windows proudly displayed at the back of one of the stands – The Trinity Road Stand. They had been there since the 1920’s. Criminally they were apparently accidentally destroyed during the construcion…One Villa fan had been particularly upset with this sequence of events but now he has writtten in with some most encouraging news…
“Here’s something of interest, I’m not sure where it is going up but I’d guess at the back of the Holte End….” Sincerely, “Stained Galss in the Trinity”
http://www.mymosaicworkshop.co.uk/society/features/Aston%20Villa.html
Claret & Light Blue replies:
Dear “Stained Glass in the Trinity”,
Thanks for your contribution – a very important one indeed. The only negative is that the originals were destroyed in the first place – one of Doug Eliis’ most unpardonable sins…
February 29, 2008 at 11:05 pm
The original ones destroyed in the first place is a mortal sin. Archibald Leitch would have turned in his grave at the very thought and maybe with the very news of the new proposed Mosaic decided to do so and thus caused the earthquake we all witnessed on the same night.
I do hope that Randy Lerner who has designs for the development of VP considers a restoration to the former glory of the great Trinity Rd stand, he’s done an excellent job of the Holte Hotel … okay it’s a bit ‘clinicy’ on the inside but I think in time it will be a great focal point pub for a pint or two. Regardless of it’s interior I really like it, I shouldn’t really as it has a picture of the Villa apprentice Terry Wilson who stole my bird. I found this out on my return from a weekend as a Dunlop apprentice rambling around Wales and staying at a hostel that was some years later criminalised for paedofilia.
March 1, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Once again, ‘Stained Glass in The Trinity” provides us with more interesting facts and updates with regards to the ‘Revolution’ in and around Villa Park…However, his personal demons are most troubling. Who really knows the sort of effect on him that his experience of losing his girlfriend to a rival whilst he was away at a hostel of paedophiles has had?…It’s enough to make one marry a BlueNose!?!