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26.03.2009 12:45
New images of the old Carrer Indùstria ground
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The material brought to the Museum by the family of Pepe Rodríguez includes, among other things, photographs of the old Carrer Indùstria ground, widening our visual records of the ground just as it celebrates its hundredth anniversary.
Until now, the Club archives included almost no original photos of the old Carrer
Indùstria ground, inaugurated on 14th March 1909. FC Barcelona has obtained a large quantity of
original material allowing us to recreate the football of that time.
His ground
The Carrer Indùstria ground witnessed the entire Barça career of Pepe Rodríguez, who
joined the Club in 1910. Therefore, the vast majority of photos of the player in action are set
against the background of the Carrer Indùstria ground – known popularly as L’Escopidora
and also as Camp Vell. It had an instantly recognisable two-tier grandstand.
Photographs of the ground at that time have mostly shown players posing in the starting line-up together with occasional action shots. However, now we have many photos of the players in action which perfectly reveal the football of the time in the Club’s first great stadium.
Historic data
The state of preservation of the material plus the care with which Pepe Rodríguez labelled the
photos with names and dates – often in his own handwriting – are two of the elements
that, almost a century later – also allow us to identify some of the players from the early
history of the Club.
