Football Stand, Peebles

This is the football stand located in White Haugh Park in Peebles - the home of Peebles Rovers FC.

I can't find out anything about the stand. However a enamel sign on it shows it was manufactured by A & J Main & Co of Glasgow -a structural engineering company making gates, railing, and agricultural and railway buildings. The company was formed in 1863 in Glasgow and went from strength to strength, opening depots in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Calcutta. They are particularly well known for their iron hay barns. It would be interesting to know if they made many football stands. The company ceased trading in 1966.

Peebles Football Club was formed in 1893. They quite a chequered history - entering the Scottish FA Cup for the first time in 1907-08. The club went out of business in 1927, but juniors kept playing and the following season they returned to senior football and joined the Eastern League, where they played until 1963. After this and until the late 1970s they played as a junior club again before joining the East of Scotland League in 1980 as a senior club. Largest crowds to watch them have been 14,000 and 10,453, both at Easter Road in the Scottish Cup in 1923 and 1961. They are now in the East of Scotland Football League - first division.