Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Hidden away in a city park just 15 minutes from central Glasgow, almost overgrown with trees and weeds, are the remains of what looks like an old football stadium. But what was this place? And what happened to it? I went to Scotland to visit the legendary Cathkin Park...
INSTA - instagram.com/the.tim.traveller
TWIT - twitter.com/TheTimTraveller
FACE - facebook.com/TheTimTraveller
MORE INFO
Cathkin Park Limited on Twitter (some great archive images here!) - twitter.com/cathkinpark
Sam from the brilliant @FootyAdventures visiting a snowy Cathkin in winter 2021 - youtube.com/watch?v=OuYLwHASezk
Glasgow Times article with more detail about Bill Hiddleston and the demise of Third Lanark - glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/other_football/15167547.conman-chairman-bill-hiddleston-cheated-justice-after-driving-third-lanark-to-the-wall-in-scotlands-greatest-footballing-year
Cathkin Park on The Stadium Guide - stadiumguide.com/cathkinpark
IMAGE CREDITS
Hampden Bowling Club by Footballfactsandimages - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Site_of_First_Hampden_Park_at_Hampden_Bowling_Club.jpg
Hampden Park in 2021 by daniel0685 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_new_normal_at_Hampden.jpg
Hidden away in a city park just 15 minutes from central Glasgow, almost overgrown with trees and weeds, are the remains of what looks like an old football stadium. But what was this place? And what happened to it? I went to Scotland to visit the legendary Cathkin Park...
INSTA - instagram.com/the.tim.traveller
TWIT - twitter.com/TheTimTraveller
FACE - facebook.com/TheTimTraveller
MORE INFO
Cathkin Park Limited on Twitter (some great archive images here!) - twitter.com/cathkinpark
Sam from the brilliant @FootyAdventures visiting a snowy Cathkin in winter 2021 - youtube.com/watch?v=OuYLwHASezk
Glasgow Times article with more detail about Bill Hiddleston and the demise of Third Lanark - glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/other_football/15167547.conman-chairman-bill-hiddleston-cheated-justice-after-driving-third-lanark-to-the-wall-in-scotlands-greatest-footballing-year
Cathkin Park on The Stadium Guide - stadiumguide.com/cathkinpark
IMAGE CREDITS
Hampden Bowling Club by Footballfactsandimages - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Site_of_First_Hampden_Park_at_Hampden_Bowling_Club.jpg
Hampden Park in 2021 by daniel0685 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_new_normal_at_Hampden.jpg
