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Doc Lightning wrote:AFAIK, it's still used for Sunday League football.
When I went there, I entered from the back, as I wasn't sure where it was. So I entered from the back of the terracing. looking down to the pitch. It felt REALLY eerie. Bear in mind this place might have had more than ten thousand people there at one point, and it was empty.
I've got a couple of pics from when it had only just closed down. I'll get them scanned and post them. Interestingly, the barriers on the terracing look different to when they closed. Most Squared, looked wooden rather than the metal ones they are now.
As a completely useless fact, the seats from the stand were sold to Albion Rovers, and are still at Cliftonville stadium. Although, Cliftonville's going to be sold for housing, so they won't be there much longer...
Do not recall the exact capacity of Cathkin Park before Third Lanark went bust, bit it was much than 10,000!
SOCCEROO wrote:I have been reliably informed that Cathin Park used to hold around 40,000 spectators during the 1950's!
TC1 wrote:Forty years after their demise, I still dream about the Hi Hi and they are not nightmares. When they went bust through criminal mismanagement, myself and many other fans could not support another senior team, though Clyde at the time were only five minutes away, as was Queens Park. Many of us became Pollok Juniors supporters, and still are.
More than a football club died with the Thirds. It was the end of an epoch in economic and cultural terms in the West of Scotland and further afield.
Paper Hankie wrote:TC, I know how it feels to lose your club and I can empathise with your nocturnal visions of the Hi Hi. Many a night I find myself back at Kilbowie in the heady days of the Davie Cooper era.
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