Clydeholm was a

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and

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stadium in

Clydebank Clydebank ( gd, Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, Bowling and Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Mil ...

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. It was the home ground of the first

Clydebank F.C. Clydebank Football Club are a Scottish football club based in the town of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire. Formed in 2003, they are currently a member of the West of Scotland Football League. The current Clydebank are a phoenix club formed aft ...

to play in the

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History

Clydebank F.C. was founded in 1914, and acquired a ten-year lease on a site directly to the west of

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.Paul Smith & Shirley Smith (2005) ''The Ultimate Directory of English & Scottish Football League Grounds Second Edition 1888–2005'', Yore Publications, p168 The new club was immediately elected into the Division Two of the

, and the first SFL match was played at Clydeholm on 16 August 1914, a 3–1 win over

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. The ground's record league attendance of 22,000 was set for a match against Rangers on 13 November 1920, with the away team winning 4–2. It was equalled for the home match against Rangers at the start of the following season, with Rangers winning 7–1, Clydebank's record home defeat at the ground. In 1925 a new grandstand was erected on the south-western side of the pitch. A greyhound racing track was installed, with the first race taking place on 15 May 1930. Clydebank resigned from the SFL on July 1931 – their final SFL match at Clydeholm was a 5–1 defeat by

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on 25 April 1931. Although the club folded in the same year, the ground continued to be used for greyhound racing. During

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it was used to house a temporary

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, which was destroyed on the first night of the

Clydebank Blitz The Clydebank Blitz were a pair of air raids conducted by the ''Luftwaffe'' on the shipbuilding and munition-making town of Clydebank in Scotland. The bombings took place in March 1941. The air raids were part of a bombing program known today as ...

in March 1941.Greyhound Racing
West Dunbartonshire Council The final greyhound racing meeting took place on 28 November 1963.
Greyhound Racing History The stadium was subsequently demolished and the site used to build a shopping centre and housing, with one of the roads through it named Clydeholm Terrace.

References

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