SCOTTISH DISTANCE RUNNING HISTORY

There is an exhibition of Lachie Stewart’s models in Coatbridge from 29th June to 21st October – link is below

Exhibitions at Summerlee Museum (culturenl.co.uk)

We now have a profile of that excellent club runner Eddie Devlin of Monkland and Clyde Valley written by his team mate and contemporary Joe Small. You can read it here .

The sad news of Alastair Hay of Central AC has, we think, stunned everybody in the sport – certainly a goodly number have emailed us to comment. A very talented and popular runner which was obvious from the days when he represented Balfron High School, he had many of us cheering him on in the Commonwealth Games from our seat in front of the TV screen. Colin Youngson’s profile including Alastair’s replies to the questionnaire plus a short tribute can be found here .

This follows hard on the heels of the news of the death last Wednesday – 12th June – of Eddie Devlin. Eddie was a good solid club runner for Monkland Harriers and Clyde Valley who contributed to many medal winning teams – gold, silver and bronze – winning medals for the likes of John Graham, Jim Brown and Ronnie McDonald as well as putting in some very good performances himself on road track and over the country.

Above is a picture of three Clydesdale Harriers – Jack HIgginson, Frank McKay and Jim Young – training at Mountblow Recreation Ground in the 1950’s. A wonderful training and competition facility built by some far-sighted councillors in September 1937 and used for club, county championships, inter-club fixtures and as a training facility. It went the way of many venues with restricted facilities in the 1960’s and became a football only venue. As a study in how such facilities were conceived by local authorities, enabled by government assistance and created by architects departments, Parks Committees and laid out by Direct Works Departments it is included here. Read about the setting up of the Recreation Ground at this link.

Above is Mountblow Recreation Ground Pavilion as it could have been – the illustration is taken from the RIBA magazine and is a pretty good illustration of the Pavilion as it was with some minimal but effective improvements.

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