Oblique aerial view of Hampden Park Stadium, Glasgow
SC 740794
Description Oblique aerial view of Hampden Park Stadium, Glasgow
Date 1989
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 740794
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 21573
Scope and Content Aerial view of Hampden Park Stadium, Mount Annan Drive, Mount Florida, Glasgow Hamden Park is Scotland's national football stadium. Hampden opened on this site in 1903, home then as now of Queen's Park, an amateur club and Scotland's oldest football club, founded in 1867. Visually distinctive from other football grounds, until 1950 Hampden was the world's largest football stadium. This shows Hampden's oval shape, retained since redevelopment although the viewing distance from the back of the stands behind each goal is the maximum recommended. The large roof over the West Terrace (left), called the Ranger's End, was built in 1967. Seating for 11,700 was added in 1991 at a cost of £700,000. The third Hampden ground, opened by Sir John Ore Primrose, Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1903, was designed by Archibald Leitch (1866-1939). Leitch had also designed Ibrox and Celtic Park, the two other great football grounds in Glasgow, giving the city the three largest football grounds in the world at that time. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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