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Item Details
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ENGINEERING ARCHIE
ARCHIBALD LEITCH - FOOTBALL GROUND DESIGNER |
| By: |
Simon Inglis |
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Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1850749183 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781850749189 |
| Publisher: |
HISTORIC ENGLAND |
| Pub. date: |
15 March, 2005 |
| Series: |
Played in Britain |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Entertaining study of the life, work and legacy of Archibald Leitch. Leitch became `designer-in-chief' for football and millions of fans sat or stood in Leitch's stadiums including at clubs such as Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Hearts and Glasgow Rangers. |
| Synopsis: |
Professional football provide one of the Victoran era's most mesmerising spectacles, developed at a time when the British public has at its disposal more free time and spare pennies than ever before. But as the bread became more plentiful, it needed someone to build the circuses.That man was Archibald Leitch.Born in Glasgow in 1865, Archibald Leitch - a consulting engineer and factory architect by profession - became to football what Frank Matcham was to theatre; in effect, its designer in chief. Millions of spectators sat or stood in Leitch's structures, built for such famous clubs as Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Hearts and, not least, Glasgow Rangers, where his stadium career began in 1899, and nearly ended just three years later, when one of his stands gave way, leading to the death of 26 spectators. Leitch witnessed the tragedy and vowed never to let it be repeated.But while his pedimented gables and criss-cross steelwork balconies formed a recognisable and much-admired style, and his own patented crush barriers were so ubiquitous as to be virtually invisible, until now little has been known of Leitch himself. Moreover, following the modernisation of football grounds as a result of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, only a dozen of his buildings survive.In this timely and entertaining study of Leitch's life, his works and his legacy, Simon Inglis has unearthed a surprising number of hitherto unseen plans, documents and archive photographs, many of them rich in detail. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
English Heritage |
| Prizes: |
Runner-up for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2005 |
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Returnable |
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