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Here's the latest work from last weekend! Tough weather conditions but we got a fair bit done! Painted another 30 feet of pitch wall and cleared a further 20 feet of moss. Another 3 steps and terrace stepping painted and another 10 foot square area scraped clear of all growth and litter. Still a long way to go and this is by far the worst job so far ! But when this section is complete (by the end of May 2011) it will really stand out to reveal the potential that this old football arena still has. More to come !

Restoration Latest

Despite the inclement weather we have persevered with the restoration of both the pitch wall and the West Terrace. All of the 64 crush barriers have been sanded down and repainted scarlet. Another 30 feet of pitch wall painted and we are moving on nto the last 3rd of this task!

The hardest bit is to come though. We have been scraping and clearing the moss and undergrowth from the top of the West Terrace down and painting as we go, although this has been held up by the rain. Still, as you can see from the photos, it is beginning to really make a difference.

We have had lots of encouragement from locals and former fans of the club as well as the help of the Council groundsmen who have kindly picked up the ten bags of rubbish we leave for them every Sunday !

Restoration Update 2011

Thanks to Michele for his work midweek on the West Terrace. We got a lot done again this morning at Cathkin. Another 40 feet of pitch wall painted and track cleared. We painted another 8 crush barriers and have nearly finished the West End. Another few steps cleaned and painted as well and a decent full survey of the ground was recorded today, breaking the restoration points into segments for future work. More well sishers came by pleased to see the ground returning to life, all of which is much appreciated too.

Restoration Latest...

Pat & I have been hard at work down at Cathkin all weekend. All of the West Terrace crush barriers are now 3rd Lanark scarlet. This section feels like it is just waiting for the crowd to return ! We cleared both stairways of leaves and rubbish, filling 15 refuse sacks! We have now started restoring the actual terracing and painting as we go. Here's a wee selection of this week's work. We also covered another 30 feet of the pitch wall in white masonry paint, so it's looking more and more like a football stadium again after this weekend! Many thanks to Craig Stewart from the SFL website for highlighting our fight against the vandals of last week. Check out his coverage on the Third Lanark comeback at the official SFL website. A special hello to the Berwick Rangers fans we met down at the park on Saturday and to our new Italian friend. Word is certainly spreading fast...

Blue Monday !!

Today was rightly named ! Arrived at the ground this morning at 8am to be met by this scene...

The whole place had been vandalised overnight and there wasn't a part of the old stadium that was spared. The usual gang slogans and idiotic 'tagging' covered my lovely white walls and covered the Pavilion building as well. I spoke to the Council and the local Police but it annoyed me so much I came home early, bought some more masonry paint and covered up all of the offending 'artwork' this evening in the dark, illuminated by my car headlights! Sorry, but it takes a lot more than that to put US off restoring this place!! Nice try though...

Restoration Latest...

Pat & I have been working away at the old stadium all weekend. Managed to clear another 25 feet of the south side pitch wall and painted another 50 feet of this section. Really starting to look like a football ground again ! We then moved on to the west terracing, which is still in surpringly good condition. Last restored in 1948, we cleared away the leaves, rubbish and muck and got stuck into the dirty work of scraping away all the undergrowth and moss from the concrete terraces themselves and the first stairway. At the end of a back - breaking session we had completed this entire section. We then made a start on the crush barriers, repainting them in the scarlet of the glorious old Warriors ! Here's a few pics of what we have done so far in January...

January 2011 - Restoration Update

Happy New Year all. We have been working through the bad weather to restore the old place and despite sub zero conditions and a layer of snow and ice again this week, we have managed to get another 20 feet of the pitch wall on the South side of the ground cleared and prepped for painting. This week I have finally made a start on the long neglected West terracing, clearing the sides of the first 21 steps. Thanks to Vice Chairman Pat McGeady for bringing me life - saving coffee early Sunday morning !! More photos to come...