A Son of the Rock

Home of Cowdenbeath FC.

It’s fair to say Central Park has seen better days. There is talk of a new stadium being built, though.

Here are the entrance turnstiles.

Just beyond the turnstiles you can turn right towards the main stand or ascend the steps to the terracing. Just by the steps is a memorial stone (see right, below) which I first noticed on Saturday.

At the top of the steps you get a view of the main stand – with stock car in the foreground.

As well as football, Central Park also hosts stock car racing as witnessed by the tyres as barriers and the wide expanse between the stand and the pitch. On a Saturday the racers start to turn up (revving engines and such behind the stand) midway through the football game’s second half.

This is the (uncovered, you’ll note) south terracing, not a good place to stand when it’s raining. Saturday was fine, though.

Here are two photos of the stand side taken from the south terracing:-

The fans are well back from the playing surface – and fenced off from it; but that’s due to the stock cars.

A couple more photos are on my flickr.

A few months ago someone posted a documentary video about Central Park on You Tube. I’ve not watched it all – it’s 18 minutes long and must have been filmed in summer, or colour enhanced – but at 1 min 35 seconds in you can see an old building up behind the stand. That building has since been demolished but I started my teaching career there in the 1980s.

When The Sun Shines
Documentary on Central Park, Cowdenbeath.