Restoration - week 21

Again another week of superb weather in Glasgow enabled us to clear much more of the dirt, moss and undergrowth from the East Terracing. Spent almost as much time removing the weeds which have already grown up through the replacement red blaes! The larger tree roots are also taking a lot

longer to cut up but slowly getting there! Hot, dusty work this week though but spurred on by some really supportive messages on Twitter this week and met some great people down at the Park who are right behind what we are trying to achieve here. As the task ahead sometimes looks insurmountable it is really encouraging to hear that the local community are right behind us.

So pressed on with cleaning the kerbstones, digging out tree roots and clearing another 4 sections of this section of the old terracing. These were then back-filled with red blaes as a temporary solution to the masses of destroyed concrete missing between the kerbstones.

Looks great, even if I say so myself! But as you can see from the next picture below we are still miles away from completing this area and plans to have it all done by the end of July have to be shelved for now. Really slow going this week as there were some really tough deep roots to dig out and remove

before the terraces could be cleared, the earth flattened out before the red ash added, once each kerbstone had been brushed clean of moss. But as the photographs show we are making progress and every day a little bit more is saved. I believe that once this East End of Cathkin is revamped then the entire stadium will really come back to life and provide another safe area for visitors and supporters at matches to stand in. This has been a real no-go area for the last 4 years and it has given me much

satisfaction restoring it a little at a time. Am also making inroads into levelling off the running track as seen above, which will clear the pitch wall again ready for restoration and painting. The Community Service team have done a great job of removing the latest weeds from the West Terrace as well this week and the Council have managed to stay on top of emptying the bins and clearing away rubbish from drinkers this week.

Also this week Cathkin Park Limited were invited to the official launch of The Benny Lynch Exhibition at The People's Palace and honoured to be a part of it. We are supporting the #Statue4Benny campaign and have suggested Cathkin Park as a possible site for erecting the

statue as Benny was undefeated in all of his 5 fights at the old ground in the 1930s. MD Simon Weir is pictured above with writer Davie Carswell and World Lightweight Champion Jim Watt MBE at the launch party this week.