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The Scottish Development Agency first supported the construction of an exhibition centre in Glasgow in 1979. A site at the former Queen's Dock on the north bank of the Clyde at Finnieston, which had closed to navigation in 1969, was selected. [4] [5] Land reclamation works started in 1982 using rubble from the demolished St Enoch railway ...
Queen's Park (Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc na Banrìghinn, Scots: Queen's Pairk) is a park situated on the south side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland, between Strathbungo, Shawlands, Battlefield, Mount Florida, and Crosshill The 60-hectare (148-acre) park lies about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) south of the city centre, [1] and gives its name to a nearby railway station and several other local ...
Queens Park railway station is a railway station serving the Queen's Park, Govanhill and Strathbungo areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Cathcart Circle Line . Services are provided by ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport .
Lesser Hampden is a football stadium in Mount Florida, Glasgow, Scotland, owned by Queen's Park F.C. and located immediately beside the western end of the national stadium, Hampden Park. Since 2023 its sponsored name has been The City Stadium (after City Facilities Management, owned by local businessman William Haughey, Baron Haughey ).
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]
Queen's Park Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, which plays in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish football pyramid. Queen's Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the 10th oldest in the world. [1]
The centre was built on old red blaes (gravel) playing fields used by Queen's Park Secondary School (closed 1994); some of the land may have been contaminated with toxic chromium waste from a local chemical works. The culverted Malls Mire Burn flows beneath the site. A large supermarket and a regional police headquarters are located nearby.
Exhibition Centre railway station, previously called Finnieston (1979–1986) and Stobcross (1894–1959) due to its location in the Stobcross area of the city, is a railway station in Glasgow on the Argyle Line. It serves the OVO Hydro, the SEC Centre and the SEC Armadillo which are accessible by adjoining footbridge from an island platform.