Aerial view.

Description Aerial view.

Date 1991

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number B 71351

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 741989, SC 1685315

Scope and Content Aerial view of Celtic Park Stadium (Parkhead), No 95 Kerrydale Street, Glasgow On 6 November 1887, Celtic Football Club was formally constituted to alleviate poverty in Glasgow's East End parishes. Their first playing ground was at Springfield Road about 200m from the present site which they came to in 1892. Redevelopment work carried out by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Partners during the mid-1990s has brought the capacity to over 60,000. This is Celtic Park Stadium from the air, showing a meander of the River Clyde in the top left-hand corner and Barrowfield housing estate below this. In the bottom left-hand corner is the Eastern Necropolis established in 1847. By 1967 all four sides of the stadium were covered, and during the 1980s no other ground except Wembley possessed two such large covered end terraces. Impressed by the popularity of Scotland's two main Irish Catholic football clubs, Hibernian, formed in Edinburgh in 1875, and Dundee Harp (later Dundee United), formed in 1879, Celtic was established in 1887 as a charitable trust to serve poor East End Catholic communities. Celtic's first match at their original ground in Springfield Road was against Rangers and drew a crowd of 2,000. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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