Page 6 - Clydesdale origins (Autosaved) #3_Neat

In 1874, the land-owner, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, told Clydesdale it would have to move from its Kinning Park location due to the necessary expansion of the
Caledonian Railway with marshalling yards, sidings and coal depots. A choice of locations was offered for a new ground - Paisley Road around Ibrox, the new
Queen's Park at Langside, or the fields to the south of Pollokshields called Titwood. The club chose Titwood. The final cricket match at Kinning Park was played in

September 1875 while Clydesdale's footballers played at Kinning Park for one more winter with the final game being against the ground’s successors, Rangers, on
Saturday 18th March 1876.

Sometimes, clubs were moved location for the construction of the railway lines with Clydesdale being a perfect example. They were originally located in Kinning

Park and were then moved elsewhere locally and were to be found to the west of the General Terminus Railway in Kinning Park.

In 1874, Sir John Stirling Maxwell then advised Clydesdale they would have to move again and he offered them a new ground in Pollokshields called Titwood.
Clydesdale’s move to Titwood was probably agreed because, although the surrounding area was still green fields, their new ground was beside a railway line, with

an Act of Parliament in 1874 having decreed further rail construction to be commenced locally, thus bringing easier access to the club while being ideally placed as
a recreational outlet, and with the expectancy of residential development scheduled to take place around them in the forthcoming years, all of this would lead to
an increase of membership.

Clydesdale would be fortunate in that their move to Titwood, on land

owned by Sir John Stirling Maxwell, was beside Crossmyloof Station
and near to the proposed extension of the Cathcart Railway and two

new stations of Maxwell Park and Pollokshields West and the laying
out streets and houses. Clydesdale’s future would be finally secured
by its move to land leased from the Pollok Estate under a beneficial
feu agreement and that it would be eventually surrounded by

railways, streets and houses.

When you look at the following maps, on the left hand side you also
see the huge playing area set aside for football and other sports. As
Clydesdale was re-developed over the next 50 years, the ground and
its features changed. Part of the area that was the football ground
was leased to J & P Coats by the Stirling Maxwell estate who turned
the area into the company’s tennis and bowls facility. It was still there

in the 1980s but has been removed and replaced with further
development at Clydesdale by the club, such as its astro-turf hockey
pitch, as the priorities of THE sports cricket club in the Glasgow area
alter once more in an ever-changing culture of accessible and relevant The club was originally located at the corner of Pollok Street and Scotland Street
sporting interests tailored to meet the demands of the members of (north of Shields Road Subway Station, now covered by the M8 motorway)
this club.