Oblique aerial view of Hampden Park under reconstruction.

Description Oblique aerial view of Hampden Park under reconstruction.

Date 31/8/1998

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number D 36148 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 581563, SC 1685813

Scope and Content Aerial view of Hampden Park Stadium, Mount Annan Drive, Mount Florida, Glasgow Hampden is Scotland's national football stadium. It opened on this site in 1903, home then as now to Queen's Park, an amateur club and Scotland's oldest football club, founded in 1867. Despite Hampden's original capacity of 65,000, it has held up to 150,000, but is now an all-seater stadium holding some 52,000. This shows the new Hampden's oval design, a feature of Archibald Leitch's original plan. The roof, built in two stages during the 1990s, is covered with white, angled panelling. The last phase of Hampden's restructuring, rebuilding the South Stand and redeveloping the West, was finished in 1999 at a cost of £59 million. Since 1925 Hampden has hosted many Scottish Cup Final matches and, since 1937, most international matches. The highest official crowd record in Britain is said to be the 1937 international match between Scotland and England when some 149,500 spectators crammed into Hampden. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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