Restoration - Week 10

Tenth week of work at Cathkin Park and with the help of the Council lads, JJFA and ourselves we have cleared 2 complete sections of the West end of the ground! Check out the photos below of the latest restoration in comparison to how the terracing looked when we began in january.

These lads have done an amazing job of clearing the terraces and the tennis courts area as well as the car park around the Jimmy Johnstone Pavilion, enabling CPL to continue apace with cleaning the remaining stonework and pitch wall this week.

Quite a transformation in just 2 and a half months! It has been brilliant working with both the GCC and JJFA recently and getting Cathkin cleaned up properly for the first time in decades. Our next aim is to cut back more of the trees and overhanging branches and to clear a walkway all around the ground, which is currently still impossible due to the ravages of time and nature.

But we are getting closer and closer to clearing half of the ground already with the Council boys moving on to the former South Enclosure this week and already making a huge improvement to this area which is also still in decent condition underneath the leaves & moss!

Cathkin was also the venue for some filming we did this week in support of the campaign to #KeepHampdenRoaring serving as a warning from history of what can happen to a club and their ground if the wrong decisions are made. We feel that Queens Park FC need our support to either remain in situ at 3rd Hampden or Lesser Hampden as it looks increasingly likely that they will be pressurised to sell the stadium to the SFA.

Delighted to report that CPL are also now backing Graeme Brown's fundraising efforts to restore the 1st Hampden Park, now the Hampden Bowling Club and we have enjoyed pulling the history of our 2 grounds together this month. Really impressed with the work Graeme has done there and we are committed to assisting his efforts in maintaining the building that is so important to Glasgow's sporting heritage.

A busy month of meetings and restoration work as well as many hours of research as we put together a 'Cathkin Calendar' of the important and memorable events held at 2nd Hampden/Cathkin Park since it opened in 1884 until it's demise in 1967.

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