This might seem silly as it's such a strange place to have a lone goal post in the location indicated by the X in the image below (image courtesy of Bob Bryden). The old memory has failed me on a few occasions, but could this recollection be right - was there a goal post there? Jeezo! If you scored a goal it could've end up in Glasgow Street.
Cannon Hill - Goal Posts
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Hughie,
There was an actual pitch at that location with two goals, ideal for five-aside matches - and you're right, a goal scored at the Hill Place end could prove troublesome, rolling down the brae to Glasgow Street. I played there on summer evenings with 1st Ardrossan Life Boys, who met in the adjacent Park Church, now, I think, the Church of the Nazarine. Also, many a time after four o'clock when my class, because of overcrowding, was decanted from Winton School to a room in the Castlecraigs . It would probably be in place until at least 1960.
There was an actual pitch at that location with two goals, ideal for five-aside matches - and you're right, a goal scored at the Hill Place end could prove troublesome, rolling down the brae to Glasgow Street. I played there on summer evenings with 1st Ardrossan Life Boys, who met in the adjacent Park Church, now, I think, the Church of the Nazarine. Also, many a time after four o'clock when my class, because of overcrowding, was decanted from Winton School to a room in the Castlecraigs . It would probably be in place until at least 1960.
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your are right P.T. I played a few games there,If my memories serves me,I think the field was nearly all grave.
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I played there a few times and if memory serves me right it was a ash park, probably half size, and I think I was the youngest and got sent for the ball. (The things you had to do to get a game.) I wonder when it was created and when it was taken away.
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I hesitated to mention the surface - I couldn't remember if it was 'earth', the grass having been worn away; ash, blaes, clay; or gravel. It certainly wasn't all grass.
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Sliding tackles was out of the question L.O.L.
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When I was a kid in the 40's it was all grass. My dad told me when he was practicing with the home guard on that piece of ground,crawling over it on their bellies, a few 6 year old kids were yelling at them to get aff their pitch and play their sully games somewhere else.
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your right Robert, you and I played at the same time we were probable in the same team, as we were all in the wee Glasgow street gang. But as far as I remember we had to put our jackets down as goal posts. No proper posts then, and there was some grass.
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Our dads must have been in the home guard at the same time because my dad told me the same story although his language was a wee bit more colourfulRobert Cook wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 9:04 pm When I was a kid in the 40's it was all grass. My dad told me when he was practicing with the home guard on that piece of ground,crawling over it on their bellies, a few 6 year old kids were yelling at them to get aff their pitch and play their sully games somewhere else.