Shotts Gasworks Park Greyhound Track

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Shotts Gasworks Park Greyhound Track
Location Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Coordinates 55°49′02″N3°47′49″W / 55.81722°N 3.79694°W / 55.81722; -3.79694
Opened1934
Closed1939

Shotts Gasworks Park Greyhound Track was a greyhound racing track in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Greyhound racing dog sport

Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track. There are two forms of greyhound racing, track racing and coursing. Track racing uses an artificial lure that travels ahead of the dogs on a rail until the greyhounds cross the finish line. As with horse racing, greyhound races often allow the public to bet on the outcome.

Shotts rural town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Shotts is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located almost halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The town has a population of about 8,840. A local story has Shotts being named after the legendary giant Bertram de Shotts, though toponymists give the Anglo-Saxon scēots as the real source of the name. Shotts is the home of the 2015 world champion pipe band, Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band.

North Lanarkshire Council area of Scotland

North Lanarkshire Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It also borders East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Stirling, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian. The council covers parts of the traditional counties of Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire.

The mining communities of Shotts were instrumental in bringing greyhound racing to Shotts. The first track in the town was situated off Station Road just south of Foundry Road and was around the Gasworks Park football pitch, home to Shotts Battlefield FC. [1]

Racing took place from 20 August 1934 and during November 1936 there was a petition signed by 1,014 people in support of the dog track because the General Purposes Committee of Lanark County Council refused to grant Thomas Rae a betting licence for the track. The track which remained independent (not affiliated to a governing body) closed on 11 March 1939 and moved to a new site called Shotts Stadium. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "OS County Series Lanarkshire 1939-1940". old-maps.co.uk.
  2. ↑ Barnes, Julia (1988). Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File. Ringpress Books. p. 422. ISBN   0-948955-15-5.
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