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, football and speedway venue in the

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district of the town of

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, Scotland, located close to the boundary with

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. Originally a football ground, Shawfield was home to Clyde F.C. from 1898 to 1986. Greyhound racing was introduced in 1932, and the stadium hosted the

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from 1970 to 1985 and from 1989 to 2019. The Glasgow Tigers speedway team were also based there, from 1988 to 1995 and 1997 to 1998, with the

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also racing there in 1996. Other sports including

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and

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were also staged at Shawfield. On 19 March 2020, an announcement was made to suspend racing because of the

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. In the following two years the majority of trainers moved their greyhounds to other venues as the track became derelict. During October 2022, the stadium's owner Billy King died, ending the likelihood of it ever reopening.

Greyhound Racing

Competitions

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Opening

John Bilsland (sole owner of Stanley in Liverpool) helped instigate the plans to open Shawfield in his home town and brought the greyhounds to the home of Clyde F.C. The football club had been based at the stadium since it opened in 1898Origins - Barrowfield Park - 1877-98
Clyde FC but were experiencing financial difficulties by 1930 resulting in the need to find new income streams. The club had tried previously to allow greyhound racing to take place at Shawfield but the Football league was opposed to the idea. Finally an agreement was reached with the chairman John McMahon and the Shawfield Greyhound Racing Company Ltd (SGRC) was born. The track opened on 14 November 1932 in the North Rutherglen area of Glasgow and was a big galloping circuit of 473 yards with 125-yard straights with well banked bends and it became a very popular venue. When Shawfield opened for racing the city of Glasgow already hosted four other National Greyhound Racing Society affiliated tracks in

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and Firhill. In addition there were the independent tracks of

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and

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which totalled eight tracks in Glasgow at the time. The first recorded winner was 'Swordmanship' receiving six yards in a 303-yard handicap race, the time was 18.45 sec. The SGRC bought the stadium from Clyde FC in 1935.

History

After the war had finished the SGRC was valued at £4,000 in 1946 by the taxman but the figure proposed by the owners was only £600 resulting in a dispute. As with most tracks at the time Glasgow experienced a profitable spell during the early fifties but both Albion and Firhill were closed to greyhound racing by the end of the decade. White City had shut by 1962 and in 1968 Carntyne was the latest track to close their doors which had a knock on effect for Shawfield. With the

left without a home there were only two tracks big enough to host the event,

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or Shawfield. The copyright of the Scottish Derby was held by the

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(GRA) and they decided that Shawfield could host the 1970 Scottish Derby. Jim Layton was Racing Manager at the time and one year later the track also received another prestigious former Carntyne competition called the

. In 1975 a devastating fire at the track resulted in the loss of the majority of facilities for the public. To combat this an investment program that included a state of the art totalisator system, ray timing and photo finish equipment was planned and this period also saw the GRA arrive on the scene as they acquired the track under their GRA Property Trust. The track made the National Intertrack final in 1976. In 1983, the stadium came on the open market and in 1984 the GRA looked to have agreed a deal to sell to

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bur planning permission was refused. During 1986, Clyde FC were given notice to leave and in May 1986 planning permission for houses was refused. The stadium shut down on 25 October 1986. Supporters of the track lobbied to save the track and with the help of Billy McAllister, a former bookie, Racing Manager and racing reporter at the track, the Shawfield Action Group was formed. An 8,000 strong petition helped stave planning permission and there was some good news when a business consortium (led by track bookmaker Billy King) bought the track instead of the expected developers. On 11 June 1987 the track re-opened under the Shawfield Greyhound Racing and Leisure Company Ltd. In 1988, the GRA lost their rights to the Scottish Derby following the sale of Powderhall and the Scottish Derby returned to its Glasgow roots. The management which included Robert Lithgow (Racing Manager), had already re-introduced the St Mungo Cup and William King Cup. A £100,000 facelift completed the takeover. Billy King continued to ply his trade as a bookmaker and in late 2001 the Shawfield Greyhound Racing and Leisure Company Ltd became the Shawfield Greyhound Stadium Ltd. The large

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which dominated the south end of the track was demolished in 2004.

Demise and closure

It was the last remaining licensed track in Scotland until its closure in 2020. The venue then remained unused for two years following the

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. In October 2022 the owner Billy King died of a suspected heart attack, ending the likelihood of the stadium reopening. It had previously been reported that the owners were looking to redevelop the site for housing, pending the results of an environmental report on the contamination there.

Track records

At closing Former (Pre metric) Former (Post metric)

Football

Clyde F.C.

Clyde F.C. took over the site, previously a trotting track, in 1898, having previously been based across the

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at Barrowfield Park. The club earned additional revenue from using Shawfield for

and

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;

was introduced in 1932. Clyde's financial difficulties led to the sale of Shawfield to the Shawfield Greyhound Racing Company Ltd in 1935, but the club continued to play there as tenants. They invited emerging Junior team Bridgeton Waverley to play there temporarily in the 1920s. During the

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, Clyde almost had to leave Shawfield because the owners demanded the use of the stadium on Saturday afternoons. Eventually a compromise was reached where the stadium would be used for dog racing on alternate Saturday afternoons, allowing Clyde to play their home fixtures. Old Entrance to Shawfield Stadium - geograph

Old Entrance to Shawfield Stadium - geograph

After

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, Clyde and the other smaller clubs in the Glasgow area struggled to compete with the dominant

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. In addition to this, many of the heavily populated tenements surrounding Shawfield ( Oatlands,

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, Bridgeton and central

districts) had been cleared in the 1960s, reducing Clyde's support base. The club proposed to move to the new town of

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in 1966. Four years later, Clyde attempted to take over

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; this collapsed when four of the Hamilton directors secured a lease on

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. Clyde continued to play at Shawfield until 1986, when the GRA's redevelopment plans led to Clyde's eviction. Despite the collapse of the redevelopment plans, Clyde did not return to the ground, although this was proposed in 1988. After a period of uncertainty playing at Firhill in the north of Glasgow (home of rivals

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) and then later at Hamilton, Clyde eventually accepted an offer from the town of

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to move to what became

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1957 disaster

On 14 December 1957, a disaster occurred at the stadium during a

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match between Clyde and Celtic. A very large crowd of 27,000 had been allowed into the stadium to see the fixture (involving the team which had just won the League Cup and the team which would go on to lift the Scottish Cup at the end of the season), with reports of the time describing Shawfield as "bursting at the seams"; crushing was experienced among some of the spectators prior to kick-off. At the time this issue was a fairly common occurrence at popular events, and it was also normal for children in the crowd to be passed over the heads of the adults out of the terracing. In this instance the juveniles were passed over the four-foot-high terracing boundary wall onto the greyhound track and sat on the track to watch the match, with their backs to the wall. In the opening minutes a goal by Celtic resulted in a surge forward among the packed crowd, and a section of the boundary wall collapsed forward under the strain, falling onto the boys sitting on its opposite side. Players stopped to help the injured, whilst supporters at the other end of the ground were unaware of any incident due to the

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which enveloped the stadium, and initially shouted for the game to be restarted. The match did resume following a 20-minute delay to rescue trapped boys and carry away the injured for treatment, despite some of the players being visibly distressed by what they had witnessed. Celtic eventually won a contest played at particularly high intensity by a 6–3 scoreline. A total of 50 persons were injured, almost all of them children, with 13 detained in hospital suffering serious injuries and one fatality among them: a nine-year-old boy named James Ryan from Bridgeton whose chest was crushed. During the

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the following February his uncle stated that James had been lifted over the wall onto the track only seconds before it collapsed, and other boys who were injured also stated that they had still been in the stand at the time the goal was scored and had jumped over the wall to avoid being crushed just prior to it falling. The inquiry heard evidence that the wall had been inspected following the incident and was of sound and legal construction, and it was only the extreme force that caused it to collapse. The accident was blamed on unruly persons in the crowd who had repeatedly been rushing forward irresponsibly, and on the absence of any crush barriers in that area of the terracing which would have lessened the forward pressure exerted. The police also stated that they had not formally agreed for any persons to be on the track at the time (although it was permitted in exceptional circumstances), and even larger attendances had previously been recorded at Shawfield for fixtures against Celtic and Rangers.

Notable matches

The stadium hosted four Scottish Football League XI representative matches: in 1911 versus the Southern League, 1921 versus the

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, and 1954 and 1956 versus the

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; the Scottish side won all four matches. The venue also hosted the annual Glasgow vs Sheffield Inter-City match in 1901, 1954, and 1956.
Both

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and

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played in the two latter matches, with Ring scoring in both. The ground has hosted many other representative matches, including the benefit match for the

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between a Scottish XI and English XI in 1914, the Scotland XI vs

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international trial, the Scotland under-23 against Auld Enemy and then tenants Clyde, A Scotland Junior XI vs Scotland 2nd XI was played in 1961. It also hosted three

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Finals, in 1909, 1942 and 1943 (two of these went to a replay, held elsewhere). It annually hosted the (''

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teams in Britain in the 1920s and 30s (when they were officially banned from participating in the sport) played several exhibition matches at Shawfield.

Speedway

The Glasgow Tigers, returning to their home city in 1988 after a year's exile in

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, became the new tenants after Clyde FC. The Tigers raced there for a decade, apart from the 1996 season when they were temporarily in abeyance and replaced by the ill-fated

who had a team but no track due to the closure of

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. When the venue opened, the racing could be viewed from two straights and the third and fourth bends but over the years the viewing area was reduced to a small part of the stadium in front of the stand. They departed to

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ahead of the 1999 season.

Other sports

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, the first Scottish boxing world champion, had his first title defence and the first

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match held in Scotland at Shawfield on October 13, 1937. A convincing win over

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saw Lynch retain his flyweight title in front of 40,000 spectators.

Location anomalies

* Historically, the boundary between the

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and the county of

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passed right through Shawfield. During

, when the gathering of crowds in areas deemed "unsafe" were severely restricted, this meant Shawfield was allowed to accommodate 20,000 spectators, whereas

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, less than a mile away but wholly located in Glasgow was permitted only 10,000 people in a much larger venue. * In the 1966–67 season, Clyde's third-placed finish in the Scottish League should have earned them a place in the

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, however a one club per city rule applied to the competition, and second placed Rangers had precedence to represent Glasgow. Clyde attempted to argue that Shawfield's location actually meant they were from the separate town of

, however the organisers of the tournament cited Clyde's membership of the Glasgow Football Association and participation in the

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. * Local government reorganisation in 1975 meant that Rutherglen, and Shawfield with it, was now incorporated entirely into an expanded Glasgow district within

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region. Further changes in 1996 created the new unitary authority area of

, with Shawfield now lying entirely within this area and no longer even partially in Glasgow.

Gallery

File:Shawfield Greyhound Stadium (geograph 7157804).jpg, The stadium in April 2022 File:Shawfield Greyhound Stadium (geograph 7163818).jpg, The Rutherglen Road side of the stadium in April 2022 File:Greyhounds - geograph.org.uk - 35546.jpg, The stadium in April 2022 File:Old entrance to Shawfield Stadium - geograph.org.uk - 1167914.jpg, Old entrance at the north of the stadium in 2009 File:Shawfield Stadium - geograph.org.uk - 1167919.jpg, The stadium in 2009

References

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External links

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