Rosebery Park was a football ground in the Oatlands area of

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, Scotland. It was the home of Shawfield F.C. from 1918 to 1960, before being acquired by

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as a venue for schools' football matches. The discovery that the site was contaminated led to the ground becoming derelict in the 1990s, and it was subsequently demolished.

History

Rosebery Park was named after the former Prime Minister, the

5th Earl of Rosebery Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of ...

. Located on the south-west side of Toryglen Street near Polmadie Road, it was the home of

Shawfield Shawfield is an industrial/commercial area of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located to the north of the town centre. It is bordered to the east by the River Clyde, to the north by the Glasgow neighbourhood of Oa ...

from 1918 to 1960.

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also sometimes used the ground in the late 1920s whilst they were without a permanent ground. Following the demise of Shawfield, the

Education Committee arranged to buy the ground in 1961 in order to provide a venue for the schools' football competitions they organised. After being refurbished at a total cost of £14,000, the ground was reopened for schools' matches in April 1963. Proposals to stage speedway racing were put forward during the winter of 1986 - 1987 but nothing became of them. Rosebery Park fell into disuse after it was discovered that the site had become contaminated by Chrome waste from factories in nearby

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. It had not hosted football for a number of years prior to being cleared and redeveloped to make way for the M74 motorway extension.M74 scheme leaflet showing route of road
(large pdf file; ground was located just north of the Polmadie Road junction)

References

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Video-clip of derelict ground from 1998
Defunct football venues in Scotland Shawfield F.C. Gorbals Demolished buildings and structures in Scotland Football venues in Glasgow Pollok F.C. {{Glasgow-geo-stub