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Rosebery Park was a football ground in the Oatlands area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was the home of Shawfield F.C. from 1918 to 1960, before being acquired by Glasgow Corporation as a venue for schools' football matches. The discovery that the site was contaminated led to the ground becoming derelict in the 1990s, and it was subsequently demolished.
Location | Oatlands, Glasgow, Scotland |
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Coordinates | 55.838°N 4.236°W |
Owner | Glasgow City Council (after 1961) |
Type | Stadium |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Opened | 1918 |
Closed | 1990s |
Demolished | 2000s |
Tenants | |
Shawfield F.C. 1918–1960 Pollok F.C. 1926–1928 Glasgow schools' football 1963–1990s |
Rosebery Park was named after the former Prime Minister, the 5th Earl of Rosebery.[1] Located on the south-west side of Toryglen Street near Polmadie Road,[citation needed] it was the home of Shawfield from 1918 to 1960. Pollok also sometimes used the ground in the late 1920s whilst they were without a permanent ground.[2]
Following the demise of Shawfield, the Glasgow Corporation Education Committee arranged to buy the ground in 1961 in order to provide a venue for the schools' football competitions they organised.[3] After being refurbished at a total cost of £14,000, the ground was reopened for schools' matches in April 1963.[4] Proposals to stage speedway racing were put forward during the winter of 1986 - 1987 but nothing became of them.
Rosebery Park fell into disuse after it was discovered that the site had become contaminated by Chrome waste from factories in nearby Shawfield, Rutherglen.[5][6] It had not hosted football for a number of years prior to being cleared and redeveloped to make way for the M74 motorway extension.[7][8]
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