Restoration - Week 7

Better weather this week and got lots more heavy digging done and cleared another large section of the main terrace in this South-West corner, seen below this week. Half of this terracing is now
cleared of all muck and rubbish and another 120 buckets removed this week alone! Over 10 hours

of hard graft this week to get this cleared up and really worthwhile. The 'Kop' mound of earth is also building up nicely and great to see the Council working hard on the pitch and to have the help of the Community Service boys clearing the pavilion area this week. Thanks due to the JJFA for getting

these lads in as there is plenty of work to do! Slowly but surely we are all now working together to breath new life into this much neglected public park and by then end of this year we feel this ground will look radically different and much improved for users and visitors alike. With the debate on the

the future of our National Stadium raging on the back pages we feel this is the perfect time to once again raise awareness and profile of Old Hampden/Cathkin Park and to finally have this place of heritage once again fully functioning and cleared of rubbish and weeds and out of control trees

that have threatened the very fabric of the remains of the old ground. We cut down 6 more dead trees this week and have marked out many more in each section of the park that will also need to come down soon as they are a hazard to users of the park, as proven by the sheer number of large trees that have crashed down due to high winds over the last couple of years. These felled trees will then be cut up and used for fuel in our Green Energy new pavilion building. 

And as this is a Victorian-styled renovation we aim to do all the work by hand with basic tools, no power tools and to recycle everything we are currently digging up to recreate the embankment first installed by Queens Park FC in 1883 and which replaces the concrete banking first put in by the Third Lanark AC in 1903 and seen above during the reconstruction of the ground in 1963/64. We hope

that these rather stern looking gentlemen of the QPFC seen above would thoroughly approve of our restoration and our plans for their old ground's renovation...although without the brick pavilion..yet!