Oblique aerial view of Gorgie.
SC 738773
Description Oblique aerial view of Gorgie.
Date 1991
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 738773
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 62350
Scope and Content Aerial view of Heart of Midlothian Football Club, Tynecastle Park Stadium, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh The Gorgie district of Edinburgh is home to Heart of Midlothian (Hearts) Football Club's Tynecastle Park Stadium. The club was founded in 1874, playing at Powburn in south-east Edinburgh and then at Powderhall, in the north-east of the city. They first moved to Gorgie in 1881 and opened their present ground in 1886. The shows the stadium before the latest and most dramatic of the renovations which have taken place since 1886. Expansion has been restricted by the stadium's crowded urban setting. The stadium is surrounded by a school on the right, bonded warehouses behind and roads and tenements on its other sides. Following the Hillsborough (Sheffield) Disaster in 1989, in which 96 Liverpool football fans died, the Taylor Report recommended that grounds like Tynecastle holding premier or first division matches must replace terracing with seats by 1994. In 1992, having studied proposals to move, Hearts opted to stay and renovate Tynecastle. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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