[Lost Junior Grounds]

This photograph is pre- 50s. In the 50's Ashfield's ground was on its present site and Perthshire's park was black ash !

Ashfield moved to New Saracen Park in the mid 30s. Perthshire's ground was black ash until 1983. Their first match on the new grass surface was against... Ashfield.

[Lost Junior Grounds]

It was a dog racing track in it's former days Bill. Right next to the White City Stadium as well! Here's how it looked before they brought the ends in to build the multi's.

In this photo you can see what Osama was saying about Moore Park being two pitches side by side running north-south.

Apart from greyhound racing and speedway, the White City also had cheetah racing around 1939. It was an idea brought north from the London White City. Possibly the same company owned both tracks? The only difference between the two types of animal racing was that the dogs chased a mechanical hare while the cheetahs went after a lump of raw meat.

The big factory in the top left corner is the Harland & Wolff "Glasshouse". Under the northern edge of this factory was St Anthony's first park (1904-1906), which never had a name and was described as a patch of waste ground at the foot of Hamilton Street (since demolished and rebuilt as Nethan Street). The ground was not enclosed and had no facilities at all so could not be used for cup-ties. The players used to change in the League of the Cross Hall (aka League Hall) which still stands and until recently was occupied by McKay Flooring Ltd.

When the Ants played their first competitive match in 1905 it was played on the Ibrox Practice Ground (top right, opposite the main stand in Edmiston Drive), ironically by permission of Oldco FC!

The building which looks like a kiddies' bouncy castle at the south end of the original Moore Park was Moorepark House, which gave it's name to the football ground built in its formerly extensive gardens.

[Lost Junior Grounds]

Osama - do you know what the ground was on Helen Street midway between Moore Park and the White City. It was on Helen Street directly across from what is now the entrance into Asda?

If you mean the one on the east side of Helen Street on the other side of Edmiston Drive, I have seen two aerial photos of it. One where it was definitely a (very small) football pitch. In the other it appeared to be a car park with vans parked on it. I asked around but got no satisfactory answer. So sorry, can't help you.

[Lost Junior Grounds]

Another shot of St Anthony's Moore Park.

There are actually three lost Junior grounds visible in the photo of Govan.

New Moore Park was originally two pitches running north/south. Many minor teams played there, including works teams, juveniles and the Govan Pleasant Sunday Afternoon team. The Ants took over in 1929 and turned it into one pitch running east/west. Harland & Wolff held the lease.

Above New Moore Park in the photo is the original Moore Park (aka Moorepark), lying derelict by this time and awaiting the construction of the "Wine Alley" housing estate. It lay on the west side of Broomloan Road and ran north/south. The Ants took it over in 1906 when Co-operative United FC (a Junior side) went bust. It was always described as a "model enclosure" and probably held five or six thousand fans after the Ants made considerable improvements. You had to go through a works yard to get to the payboxes from Broomloan Road. The Ants sub-let the ground to juvenile teams, including Govan Emerald and Govan Hibs.

Fifty yards to the north is Gymnasium Park, Benburb's second ground – just too far away from Moore Park to lob a brick or bottle. It was originally the Govan Police Sports Association ground, renamed by the Bens when they moved in 1912. It was a very tight little ground running east/west and abutting Broomloan Road. The railway goods yard fans out behind the north side of the park and there is a whitewashed factory building at the north-east corner. Fairfield Shipyard held the lease and their Junior team played there a few years before the Bens.