The Boys pen

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Tbh, I don't remember any bother in there in the early- mid sixties. There were kids running around but that was it. Me and my mates used to just go down to the front and you could even get a decent view. It was alright......

Edit..... Although I also had a couple of older brothers in there, and their mates, and not forgetting all my cousins and their mates. In fact probably half the kids in there were looking out for me......could explain a few things......
 


Haha, It must have been when the all seater came in but for the life of me I can't actually remember it being taken down....

Way before then mate.

just found this about the other one.......
Every other Saturday, little monsters – ‘extras from Oliver Twist’ as one fan described them – no older than 12, would shriek and curse their way through matches knowing it soon would be time to graduate through the crèche of fandom and into the real world.
The Boys’ Pen was meant to be a satellite community of Shankly’s vision: Day care for the offspring of seasoned Kopites - a place where sons deemed too diminutive for the genuine thing – would spend their Saturday afternoons cheering on the Reds and learning what it meant to be a Liverpool supporter. In theory.
The reality was quite different. The Kop was an all-welcoming society. The Pen - a caged jungle – was a holding ground for frustrated juveniles and sometimes a lonely place for newcomers outside the clique. Those that weren’t, didn’t hang around.
In one game some time in the 70s, as Liverpool cruised towards yet another comfortable home victory, the Kop was on its round of "Annie Road, give us a song", "Main Stand, give us a song" before arriving at the Boys’ Pen.
"Kopites are gobsh*tes" yelped the hyena pups.
Kids that stood in the pen were tough - the head to toilet flusher types from school. Regulars in the Main Stand, just across from the pen, would witness and be the recipients of their wrath.
“The Main Stand got a lot of abuse,â€￾ said Mick Potter, from The End fanzine. “There was a feeling that they looked down on the Boys’ Pen. We were the underclass of Liverpool and they were the gentry.â€￾
 
I think it went up to the heady heights of 1/6.The poor sods he walked past the front of the cage on there way for a half time bovril inveriably were gobbed on.
 
Went in the Pen once in the early 70s and being a small wool from The Wirral got the **** kicked out of me. Street End from then on.
 

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