The kids pen ?



Bloody hell that was a frightening place when you are 7.

Thank God my Dad was there to get me out.

Nearly as bad as the ABC minors.

My son was going to Central Park for years before I started to pay for him just used to lift him over the turnstile. Oh happy days at CP

My son was going to Central Park for years before I started to pay for him just used to lift him over the turnstile. Oh happy days at CP

must have had twins

My Dad used to do the same for me.

Don't remember when I actually started having to pay to get in.

Think I was about 18.

Not sure what the average wage was then on account of being a small boy, but in comparison junior admission price has gone up from 3d to £5 (for the big one). With eighty 3d's in a pound that means the current price is 400 times more expensive. I don't think wages have gone up that much.

I was always led to believe the Hen Pen was the middle section, not the corner? If you look at old Central Park pics you will see a walled off section starting at the tunnel going towards the popular side, about 20metres wide. Byt the time I started going it wasn't officially in use any more so I might well be wrong.

Yes the turnstiles were just to the left of the old clubhouse. It was just left of centre.

Does anyone remember the ringside seats?

i believe you to be correct...

Have you seen him lately he looks like that Jack Nicholson from the film The Shining.


PS: is he on here?

I think you'd know if he was.

,uote="jinkin jimmy"Does anyone remember the ringside seats?'"

Gary Bennett " Man in charge of all Car Parks "

Don't I just.

My first season tickets were there sat with my mam & dad. Had them for about 10 years until health and bl**dy safety rule. 25 yard line popular side scoreboard end.

You could here the bones crack.

Scrum down, McTigue playing second row.

Hggr, aahhhhhhh.
Opponent second row lies prostrate as scrum breaks up. Mac walks away from scrum, looks back and smiles.

Billy B beats two men and scores in the corner, as he scores my mam is diving on him to congratulate him.

Happy days.

It's Neil_A.

I spent many many happy hours on the steps of the hen pen. i remember it well, the smell of winter green wafting from the dressing room (FROM HENDERSON GILLS LEGS) up the tunnel to were i was stood. The the sudden surge of kids (one myself) jumping onto the tunnel wall a couple of mins before the players were due out. And then it started the music blasted out MARCH OF THE GLADIATORS and out they came. GOOD TIMES INDEED.

no........it was "only one left, who'll buy the last 2"



obviously i remember it...and i remember climbing over the wall to get into the pop stand and a fat unfit steward trying to chase about 10 of us at once...............happy days

he is correct...it was on the left hand side of the tunnel(as they ran out), with the scoreboard on the other side of the tunnel

cost me a tanner..........i walked

I made my debut in the "pen" nearer to the Souvenir hut.

A wall seperated my pen from the "hen-pen".

There were 3 "pens" in total, 2 of which were astride the tunnel.

i beg to differ.....there was just the one

I only paid 3d

Only one.
Outside the pen one could gain access to any part of the ground.

I was a season-ticket holder for the ringside in 1964.