General view from S. Digital image of B 30554

Description General view from S. Digital image of B 30554

Date 11/1988

Catalogue Number SC 741996

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 30554

Scope and Content Entrance, Celtic Park Stadium (Parkhead), No 95 Kerrydale Street, Glasgow, from south 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 the entrance from the south, built in 1988, to commemorate the centenary of Celtic Football Club. Note the floodlights overhead, Celtic being possibly one of the first football grounds to consider permanent floodlighting, as early as 1893, when, alongside Goodison Park in Liverpool (the home ground of Everton Football Club), Celtic was the most advanced ground in Britain. Celtic Park became Scotland's main venue for internationals, until Hampden took over in 1906. In 1911 it hosted a Coronation parade and during World War I it served as the venue for a demonstration of trench warfare which included mock bombs and explosions. It has also been used to hold open air masses, the largest being in 1949 when 27,000 people attended. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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