The story behind the photo No. 2 - Ladeside Park, Muirkirk

            This is Ladeside Park in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland - taken around 1981. Shortly after WW2 the Manager, Mick Boland and the trainer Mick Morran of Muirkirk Juniors football club travelled to Airdrie with the intention of signing my dad (also John McGowan) to play for Muirkirk. The deal was done and he played No.8 for them around the late 1940s for a couple of years. For one game my dad took his two sisters Susan and Cissie to watch him play. To cut a long story short, one ended up marrying the manager and the other one married the trainer and I ended up with two Uncle Micks and a family in Muirkirk Haven't been back to visit for a while now but it's remains a beautiful, if remote, place. Ladeside Park was closed in 1985 and was left to the elements while a new stadium was built closer to the village and remains the home of "The Juniors"
   

Taken on: December 24, 2024

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Camera: EPSON Perfection V600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	EPSON Perfection V600
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 14.1.1 (Windows)
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