Restoration - Week 20

So, here we are now 5 months into our painstaking restoration of 2nd Hampden Park and another week of nice weather and daily work clearing 50 years of neglect! Arrived there to find more mindless vandalism presumably from school kids over the weekend! The drainage tube put in by GCC have been torn up and set alight, using school jotters to ignite the plastic. Not too much

actual damage done but frustrating and unnecessary. One of the things we will definitely put in place on completion is security and have a local firm already lined up to take care of Cathkin Park as part of their slate of projects, which can't come soon enough to be honest. Cleared up another 3 bags of

beer and cider cans and just getting on with it now! No point in complaining, just clean the place up but does add extra hours on to the restoration work that I could do without! Lots of early morning graft this week in between more trips to England for work but received lots of complements and support from the local community and on our @CathkinPark Twitter page, which is very much 

appreciated and really does spur us on to continuing this work. And we are slowly improving more and more of the East Terrace this week as these pics demonstrate (above and below). Really happy with the way these kerbing stones have come up from the wire work and hot,dusty work but well

worth the effort this week. Managed to clear another three sections of the East Terrace but still a mountain of work ahead to turn around this part of the ground before moving on to the next section!