ropy Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 8 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: I'm fairly sure there was cheetah racing 1 or 2 places - Ochilview and/or Firs Park, Falkirk rings a bell - in the 1930s. EDIT: Apologies, wrong bit of Stirlingshire. It was in actual fact Forthbank, Stirling. Forthbank? Opened in 1993 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 (edited) Forthbank Park. King's Park FC. Blown to smithereens by the Luftwaffe on 20th July 1940. http://lintel.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5d3b53ef01a73e1a0553970d-800wi Edited January 8, 2017 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booker-T Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 i need to knock the drugs on the head... no matter how many times i look at this thread i can see a reference to cheetah racing ?!? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forthbank_Park 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 (edited) It's also mentioned in Bob Cramspey's The Scottish Football League: The First 100 Years book. Edited January 8, 2017 by HibeeJibee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboyjones1976 Posted January 8, 2017 Author Share Posted January 8, 2017 On 28/12/2016 at 11:37, CityDave said: I don't know who the photographer is (this came of the Ness FC twitter account). Here's another of the Ness FC changing rooms/ social club Ness FC is a truly beautiful ground in a true beautiful place. It always amazes me that the pitch is always covered in daisies when I visit up there. I visit the village of Cross, a mile away, 3 times a year to take my Daughter to see her Grandparents there. My late Girlfriend is buried in the Clach Nis (Ness Cemetery) just behind the football ground overlooking Eorpaidh Beach so being up there is always pretty special. Here's a few pictures I took with the drone last time I was up. They were used in a calendar promoting the area. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mr. X Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 21 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: Brilliant photo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie52 Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 18 minutes ago, Daydream said: That's a mock up used in an advertisement for a car manufacturer, Audi I think. It gets circulated from time to time and then someone posts a link to the original. I think the rest is genuine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereismillar Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 1 hour ago, HibeeJibee said: I'm fairly sure there was cheetah racing 1 or 2 places - Ochilview and/or Firs Park, Falkirk rings a bell - in the 1930s. EDIT: Apologies, wrong bit of Stirlingshire. It was in actual fact Forthbank, Stirling. not forthbank but the old ground at annfield you mean ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 King's Park were the football club in Stirling until WWII, when the ground which was called Forthbank Park was wrecked in an air raid. They folded at the end of the war, and the town got a new club in the shape of Stirling Albion who were admitted straight into SFL. They built a new stadium called Annfield. In 1993 Albion moved to a new stadium called Forthbank. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 7 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: That's right. Various football grounds in Scotland hosted greyhound racing - and briefly cheetah racing! - between the wars and again in the 1990s. I remember it being discussed in a previous thread like this and have a list somewhere. I'm right in saying Firhill was only ever curved at one end, though? If you look at the right hand side of the ground you can see the curve . This terracing was extended down to the goal in about 1962. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughsie Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Brilliant thread - thoroughly enjoyed reading through. A few mentions of Brockville which has its fair share of quirks including enclosure running the length of the main stand, and a railway line if you're into that kind of thing. My favourite quirk was the TV gantry which was located within touching distance of the fans on the terracing opposite the Main Stand next to the cage. I remember us being the featured game on Scotsport (or Football First?) and loud chants of "Andy Walker, you're a w****r' being audible throughout. Memory might be playing up but I'm sure it was so close that you could bang the bottom of it too? Not my picture but you can make out the gantry from this picture taken from the old away end. Also a picture of inside the Main Stand and a bit of a quirk from the new stadium I suppose - the old Brockville gate which is still used and a bank of the old turnstiles which sit in the corner of the new ground between the South Stand and the empty space. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 (edited) 14 hours ago, Highlandmagyar said: If you look at the right hand side of the ground you can see the curve . This terracing was extended down to the goal in about 1962. I think he meant covered. Amirite @HibeeJibee? Edited January 9, 2017 by jagfox99 -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 22 hours ago, jagfox99 said: Construction of the Firhill Shed in off-season of 1954. Probably late 70s/ early 80s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 No, I was meaning curved. Highlandmagyar seems to have answered it. You can see it more obviously here: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Just now, HibeeJibee said: No, I was meaning curved. Highlandmagyar seems to have answered it. You can see it more obviously here: Yup was curved until the JHS came along. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 (edited) 7 hours ago, Hughsie said: Im old enough to remember Brockvile, it certainly made up in character and atmosphere what it lacked in facilities and comfort. Those toilets under the old stand remind me of the torture rooms in Hostel where the unfortunates had angle grinders taken to their genitalia. Edited January 9, 2017 by Flybhoy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 "Brockville Development Association Buffet" Someone had a sense of humour. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Victoria Park circa May 1994. It's barely changed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 No, I was meaning curved. Highlandmagyar seems to have answered it. You can see it more obviously here: How long did they stick with the crazy exploding grass pattern? I quite like it, though I imagine linesmen wouldn't have. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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