Boro Brick Road ?

r00fie1

r00fie1

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Anyone know if the club are planning to expand it or build a Boro Brick Wall for the future?
 
Needs a good clean and would be good to get an interactive digital map of it but at what cost i wouldnt know

Wouldve been nice if theyd have incorporated a small led light, one to help find it with the digital
Map (lights up when you input the name) and two so they could all light up on night matches. Cost prohibitive i know im just thinking out loud. If i had one for a loved one od be happy to pay for the changes
 
Id love to know whats happening as i have one, still readable but i'd love to get it changed and take ex wifes name off and put my newborns name on!
 
MagicMike said:
Needs a good clean and would be good to get an interactive digital map of it but at what cost i wouldnt know

Wouldve been nice if theyd have incorporated a small led light, one to help find it with the digital
Map (lights up when you input the name) and two so they could all light up on night matches. Cost prohibitive i know im just thinking out loud. If i had one for a loved one od be happy to pay for the changes
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That's a great ideal (the map) and surely someone from the Uni could look at something like that as part of a design / AI project - you could have a virtual version as well, which would be of interest to ex-pats too ?

I suspect the LED idea, although great, would be too disruptive and cost prohibitive.
 
I was just thinking about this yesterday - we will start up the recording again now that we are reaching summer. The bricks are far more visible in sunlight - that is a trick learned from archaeology inscriptions are far easier to read in summer than winter in general. We are recording one row at a time and actually with close inspection we have yet to find a brick we cannot read. That is the good news. But we will soon reach the more difficult sections. These are the bricks that have not previously been cleaned. The idea is to clean them and record them all and provide a spread sheet/map so that everyone can find their brick.

Cleaning them will preserve their life. Actual restoration is really expensive as to do it properly the whole site needs to be excavated and taken to the factory. The results would be temporary because erosion is being caused by grit and rock salt during winter months. But cleaning has worked on the half that have been cleaned, a decade ago and all of them are readable.

So, with everyone's help we should finish up with cleaned bricks and a record you can download or print off showing your brick.

Briconomics, the company that designed the Boro Brick Road have moved away from roads and bricks they now offer tiled walls and the next step could be to produce a tiled mural at the ground made up of images of fans. A computer rearranges the images to produce an iconic Boro image. But get closer or look on your phone and your own tile is easy to find. We already have permission from the council should we want to use the brick wall of Shepherdson Way that faces the Riverside Stadium.

So. we need to get some brick recording sessions if anyone has an hour spare - we just do it an hour and a row at a time.
 
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Apologies for the negative comment, but why do they want volunteers to help maintain it? We paid for these in the first place, surely that cost should have included it's upkeep?
 
Tryasize10 said:
Apologies for the negative comment, but why do they want volunteers to help maintain it? We paid for these in the first place, surely that cost should have included it's upkeep?
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Because like most football clubs, outside of the playing side they're run on a shoestring. Also they can rely on the goodwill of fans to do stuff like this.
 
I’d be happy to pay a reasonable fee for ongoing maintenance every so often or a one off lump sum to guarantee upkeep in the event something happened to me. I know it sounds sentimental, but I would love it to be a legacy for many years to come.

I would also have loved there to be a formal record for each and every name like a museum piece with a picture of the individuals and a short story about them, so in years to come, generations not yet born could reflect a little about these wonderful Boro fans understand a little more about them as they live on in history, gone but never forgotten. I am sure much more could be done and I am sure those able to would contribute in time and financially to do something along these lines. Never a day goes by where I don’t think about my dear old dad.
 
I think the small print said guaranteed for 10 years.

But anyway the Supporters Forum had a meeting with Boro last year. I asked some of my archaeology friends for advice and we all contacted the Briconomics company to talk us through the options. By we, I mean Boro and the supporters.
After these meetings we worked out a system and a plan together. Many fans came forward and said they would be glad to help.
 
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coluka said:
I’d be happy to pay a reasonable fee for ongoing maintenance every so often or a one off lump sum to guarantee upkeep in the event something happened to me. I know it sounds sentimental, but I would love it to be a legacy for many years to come.

I would also have loved there to be a formal record for each and every name like a museum piece with a picture of the individuals and a short story about them, so in years to come, generations not yet born could reflect a little about these wonderful Boro fans understand a little more about them as they live on in history, gone but never forgotten. I am sure much more could be done and I am sure those able to would contribute in time and financially to do something along these lines. Never a day goes by where I don’t think about my dear old dad.
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Once we have a record of all the bricks there are lots of possibilities like those very good ideas. We can finish the process this summer and provide plans etc. Once cleaned the bricks should hopefully last for another decade. There is also the possibility of making a new longer lasting fan memorial, including the names on the bricks - but we need to get to that point first.
Briconomics told us from experience the technical difficulties of re-etching the bricks. You can damage one brick, conserving those adjacent. And nothing is ever permanent. Especially on a road surface. They no longer make roads. They know all about the science and sadly to keep people from slipping in winter you need to put down rock salt etc. Shoes work that grit into the bricks to wear away the inscriptions. There isn't really anyway round this.
But I asked archaeologists how they systematically record the inscriptions in graveyards. I knew of a group doing this in Norton. They told me how they go about it. But also warned that lots of memorials are totally unreadable in winter but on return in Spring stand out like new.
 
I’ve got a brick on there and only recently discovered it, it was bought for me at a time I didn’t live in the area…
It was a great gesture but I was under no illusion that it was going to last for ever..
If there’s plans to increase the floor or something similar it would be great..
If you publicise any times you’re going over to record them I will pop over if I’m free..
 
I have just messaged Mark to see if we could get another recording session booked in. We only do an hour at a time. Everyone gets their own row to record and then it all is entered on a spreadsheet which later can be checked through.
 
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