New Logie Green

Le New Logie Green est un ancien stade de football, construit en 1889 et fermé en 1899, qui était situé à Édimbourg.

1. Histoire

Le club de St Bernard's commença à jouer ses matches à domicile au New Logie Green à partir de 1889. Promu en Division One en 1893, le club y joua son premier match de Scottish Football League le 26 août 1893 pour un nul 0-0 face aux Rangers devant 5 000 spectateurs. Le 10 novembre 1894, le stade enregistra son record d'affluence, avec 8 000 spectateurs, pour un match de championnat, pour une victoire 2-0 face au Celtic. Ce record fut égalé le 19 septembre 1898 pour une défaite 0-2 face aux Rangers. Le stade a été sélectionné par la Fédération écossaise de football pour accueillir la finale de la Coupe d'Écosse de football 1896 entre les deux rivaux d'Édimbourg : Heart of Midlothian et Hibernian, car Hampden Park n'était pas disponible à cause d'un test-match de rugby. C'est la seule fois de toute l'histoire de la Coupe d'Écosse de football que la finale ne se joua pas à Glasgow. On a craint quelque temps que la capacité du stade ne fut pas suffisante pour accueillir tous les spectateurs désireux d'y assister. Certains demandèrent que la rencontre se joue plutôt à Ibrox ou à Tynecastle mais l'érection d'une tribune supplémentaire, portant la capacité à un total de 23 000 spectateurs, résolut le problème. Finalement, 16 034 spectateurs assistèrent à la rencontre, établissant un nouveau record d'affluence. Leith Athletic y joua deux matches lors du début de la saison 1899-1900. Le bail de St Bernard's sur le terrain expira le 31 décembre 1899 et ils y jouèrent leur dernier match la veille, pour un match nul 3-3 contre Saint Mirren. Cette saison-là, ils jouèrent leur dernier match à domicile à Ibrox. La saison suivante, ils jouèrent à New Powderhall (en) puis, les saisons suivantes, au Royal Gymnasium Ground. Le terrain de New Logie Green fut utilisé pour y construire un parking.

1. Notes et références

(en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « New Logie Green » (voir la liste des auteurs).

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New Logie Green

New Logie Green was a football ground in the Powderhall area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the home ground of St Bernard's from 1889 until 1899, and was also used to host the 1896 Scottish Cup final, the only time the Scottish Cup final has been played outside Glasgow. The ground was named after a nearby mansion.

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Old Logie Green

Old Logie Green was a football ground in the Bonnington area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the home ground of Leith Athletic and St Bernard's between 1904 and 1926, both having previously played at the neighbouring New Logie Green ground.

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Canonmills

Canonmills is a district of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies to the south east of the Royal Botanic Garden at Inverleith, east of Stockbridge and west of Bellevue, in a low hollow north of Edinburgh's New Town. The area was formerly a loch which was drained in three phases in the 18th and 19th centuries, disappearing finally in 1865.

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Powderhall Stadium

Powderhall Stadium, formerly the Powderhall Grounds, was a multi-sports facility overlooking the Water of Leith on Beaverhall Road, in the Powderhall (Broughton) area of northern Edinburgh, Scotland. It opened in January 1870 at the height of professional pedestrianism and was modelled on the stadium at Stamford Bridge in London. It hosted professional sprint races, track and field athletics, including the Scottish Amateur Athletics Championships on a number of occasions, professional football, international rugby, cycling, and dog races as well as boxing, quoits and pigeon shooting. For 100 years it hosted the Powderhall Sprint, the most famous professional sprint handicap in the world. With the decline of pedestrianism as a spectator sport in the 1920s it was converted to a greyhound stadium, hosting the Scottish Grand National for over sixty five years, and it also hosted professional speedway. The stadium finally closed in 1995 and the site is now a housing estate.

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Powderhall

Powderhall is an area lying between Broughton Road and Warriston Road in the north of Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. Until recently it was best known for Powderhall Stadium, a greyhound racing track, which has now closed. The stadium also played host to motorcycle speedway racing from 1977 to 1995, as home to the Edinburgh Monarchs, who have since relocated to Armadale. The Powderhall Sprint, first held in 1870, was a professional footrace with handicapping of the runners. It continues, since 1999, as the New Year Sprint and is now held at Musselburgh Racecourse. The name derives from a gunpowder factory and associated buildings on the edge of the Water of Leith set up by the Balfour family of Pilrig as one of their several enterprises in the early 18th century. The site has been redeveloped for housing and business purposes, with the area having become casually (and for marketing purposes) known by the names “Powderhall Village” and, alternatively, “Canonmills Gardens”. This draws attention to its mixed identity as both a desirable village inofitself, and as a natural part of the Canonmills area. Most residents use the Warriston Path, through trees and over disused railway tracks (and a bridge), to get to central Canonmills, George V Park (through a tunnel),the Royal Botanic Garden or, further along, Stockbridge. Following the path downriver through Bonnington ends up at the Shore, Leith. East Powderhall was once the location of the city's main waste management depots. Originally built as an incinerator, a new chimney on the plant was condemned in the 1990s and removed. Construction is now underway to convert the former waste transfer station (including Powderhall Stables) into mixed-use housing, green spaces, and art studios.

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