Hippobee
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If I owned a classic Merc like that, I wouldn't be parking it next to a demolition site!
Griffin Park Update
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I was going to say are we sure that pic isn't from when Arthur Daley came to film at GP!
Les Beeavinu
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Lovely car.
rebus
On my final warning
Grim.
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What an old banger you mean?
wanderer paul
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There’s a video on Facebook of Brook Road being dismantled now….. bit by bit the old girl is being stripped and torn apart. 
Houghton Bee
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There’s a video on Facebook of Brook Road being dismantled now….. bit by bit the old girl is being stripped and torn apart.
Come on Paul, you post heartbreaking pictures/videos of the best parts of GP being ripped down but the one awful stand that nobody will miss gets what's coming to it and we cant even enjoy the footage
Ruislip_Rich
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Not today lads. I'm emotionally wreck as it is.
So THAT’S where the LR colour scheme came from
Griffingreen
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You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
westwing
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Good, flatten that 'orrible stand!!There’s a video on Facebook of Brook Road being dismantled now….. bit by bit the old girl is being stripped and torn apart.
rebus
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Nice W115 (I think...) Mercedes
Isleworth_Bee
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Come on Paul, you post heartbreaking pictures/videos of the best parts of GP being ripped down but the one awful stand that nobody will miss gets what's coming to it and we cant even enjoy the footage
Infatuated Bees Alter Ego
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No more plundering permitted then
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That picture has choked me.
Ashford Bees
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Form an orderly queue!
A very Winnie statement. Sent shivers down my spine.
Thanks for photo, still cant believe it.. Be great to visit the new stadium 1 day..
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jlove
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I've seen a few opposition centre-forwards who looked like that in front of the Brook Road goal in days past...
That is a hard watch .
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The comments from Steve Curran were quite interesting, living with a football ground (I'm only talking semi-pro) at the end of my garden I've missed the hubbub of a game going on the last year or so. Wonder if many other households backing on to GP will miss having it as their neighbour. Those south face gardens on New Road are about to cop a load of more sunlight - I suspect which may have bee a factor in the roof never fully being returned to the back of New Road back in the day.
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rebus
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They must have filmed that Monday or Tuesday as the Breamar Road roof was intact at the weekend
wanderer paul
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Goodbye old girl; it was great growing up with you (nearly 50 years), knowing you & your quirks, learning about you & your past and remembering your best days, as a young 25-35 year old!! Shame you couldn’t host top flight football once again, for one last time.
Time doesn’t stand still though. Time evolves daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and over decades.
The new lady is eagerly waiting for us all to return and for her to embrace our love of the Bees once again. Whatever division we end up in.
Griffin Park 1904-2020.
Time doesn’t stand still though. Time evolves daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and over decades.
The new lady is eagerly waiting for us all to return and for her to embrace our love of the Bees once again. Whatever division we end up in.
Griffin Park 1904-2020.
ianbees1
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Where was the warning....some viewers may find these scenes distressing?
Are my eyes deceiving me or are two of the floodlight pylons gone already?
upnorthbee
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I think they're gone mate.
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No, don't panic - the the developer's are retaining them as frames for climbing Wisteria.
Supercomputer rating = 100%
Aussie Bee
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What is the time line for completion of the project with the new homes / park etc? Might pencil another trip back in - hopefully international travel will,have resumed by 2024 or something like that - and god has spared me!!!
westwing
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Yey!!
OrchardBee
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That’s exactly right. There’s a small part of me that still thinks it’s a surreal dream (as per the film Inception) and that, when I wake up, GP will be intact and ready for business again. At least my Dad (d. 1985) who was a regular in the pre WW2 days and originally lived a few hundred yards from the ground didn’t get to see this day (although I like to think he would have admired LR too).
moribee
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Very upsetting
wibs
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Goodbye old girl; it was great growing up with you (nearly 50 years), knowing you & your quirks, learning about you & your past and remembering your best days, as a young 25-35 year old!! Shame you couldn’t host top flight football once again, for one last time.
Time doesn’t stand still though. Time evolves daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and over decades.
The new lady is eagerly waiting for us all to return and for her to embrace our love of the Bees once again. Whatever division we end up in.
Griffin Park 1904-2020.
You missed out "hourly" and "over centuries"
badgerbee
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I guess our last game at GP could have been like this!!! 
www.bbc.co.uk
'It was like watching your own burial'
On the final day of the Bundesliga season in May 2001, Schalke were champions for four minutes and 38 seconds. It was agony.
www.bbc.co.uk
moribee
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Would have just liked a last game.I guess our last game at GP could have been like this!!!
'It was like watching your own burial'
On the final day of the Bundesliga season in May 2001, Schalke were champions for four minutes and 38 seconds. It was agony.
wanderer paul
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Ran out of time…..
Danielpuffpuff65
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These are the pieces I managed to save from griffin park on my visit 2 weeks ago. In no way did I mean to offend any Brentford supporters when posting on Twitter that I had been successful in getting permission into the demolition site, I just have a keen interest in football stadiums (especially older grounds) But I have preserved the items and made a commerative box for them which I will keep with me forever. I have absolutely no intentions of selling any of the items on in the future. Hope you can understand why I have kept them and why I went down to griffin park.
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Danielpuffpuff65
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That’s how I did it, it was so easy to get access
Alex
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Next time you might want to consider not posting it up on twitter publicising what is going on causing it to be shut off to genuine fans.
Danielpuffpuff65
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To be honest I didn’t realise my tweet would reach the Brentford community and how much it would offend… it was only posted for my own personal timeline.
until you tweeted about it. anyways its happened now, glad you got what you wanted for your collection
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Thanks for stopping us getting access for momentos.
Les Beeavinu
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You didn't realize a tweet about taking mementos from Griffin Park would reach Brentford fans. Was this your first week on social media?
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He must have to have boxing gloves on looking at that picture of a half demolished GP from the air to avoid ripping his old chap clean off.