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Hampden Park was built between the Queen's Park Recreation Ground (where the club had played until then) [1] [2] and Hampden Terrace, taking its name from the road. The first enclosed stadium with turnstiles in the United Kingdom, [3] it was opened on 25 October 1873 for Queen Park's first-ever competitive match, a Scottish Cup first round tie against Dumbreck, [4] with Queen's Park winning 7 ...
Hampden Park (/ ˈ h ɑː m d ən / HAHM-dən; [8] Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Hampden) is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland, which is the national stadium of football in Scotland and home of the Scotland national football team, as well as Queen’s Park FC, the original owners.
Pynchon Park, also known as Hampden Park and League Park, was a sports venue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1853 by the Hampden Agricultural Society and was destroyed by fire in 1966.
Queen's Park left this site in 1883 because of a proposal to extend the Cathcart District Railway line through the site. [2] Queen's Park then moved to a second Hampden Park, which hosted internationals between 1885 and 1890. [3] The first match hosted outside Glasgow was at Hibernian Park in Edinburgh on 10 March 1888. [4]
The park and a few surrounding buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 as the Hampden Park Historic District. Included in this designation are St. Jerome's Church (built during the late 1850s), the Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Lourdes (1869), and the former Central Fire Station (1914), and other ...
In 1923, Queen's Park were looking for an alternative venue for their reserves and youth teams, [1] with a basic pitch to the south of the main stand at Hampden Park increasingly being used as a car park. [6] The club purchased a farm on the west side of Hampden and built a pitch and stands. [1]
Lord Willingdon agreed to sell 78 acres (320,000 m 2) to Eastbourne Corporation on condition that a new main road, Kings Drive, was built from Eastbourne to Willingdon. Hampden Park, named after Lord Willingdon's grandfather, Viscount Hampden, was opened by Lord Rosebery on 12 August 1902 and was the first Corporation-owned park in Eastbourne. [3]
Fratton Park, Portsmouth; Goodison Park, Liverpool; Hampden Park, Glasgow; Home Park, Plymouth; Hyde Road Football Stadium, Manchester (General ground improvements 1911–1914 and a planned complete rebuild of the ground to accommodate 100,000; war broke out, bringing a halt to these plans) [8] Ibrox Park, Glasgow [9] Hillsborough Stadium ...