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The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis JoinThe Football’s Square Mile Alliance

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Announcement – Sunday 28th April 2024


The Hampden Collection reaches another significant milestone with the Friends of Glasgow Necropolis joining our Football’s Square Mile Alliance. Within Football’s Square Mile, there are three cemeteries: Glasgow Necropolis, Southern Necropolis, and Cathcart Cemetery.


We are delighted the Friends of Glasgow Necropolis join the Friends of Southern Necropolis and Friends of Cathcart Cemetery in our mission to make them UNESCO sites, and promote the world’s biggest open-air football museum. These organisations volunteer their precious time and expertise to preserve these sites and promote the importance of prominent figures of Glasgow’s past.


Ruth Johnston, Chairperson of Friends of Glasgow Necropolis, explains, “The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis fully supports Football’s Square Mile Alliance’s bid for UNESCO World Heritage status. The Glasgow Necropolis was opened in 1833 and was the first garden cemetery in Scotland, with 3,500 memorials designed by some of Glasgow’s most important architects and sculptors.


William Dick, Secretary of the Scottish Football Association, has his services to football commemorated at Glasgow Necropolis. As highlighted in our free guided tours, his monument is perhaps the earliest known sculpture of a laced leather football in the world. On the sporting front our cemetery also has memorials to five Scottish Rugby capped players and one of the golfing Doleman family.”


Graeme Brown, Hampden Collection Founder, explains, “Football’s Square Mile has 21 sites, which stretch across Glasgow City and Glasgow Southside, and we are delighted to welcome another like-minded organisation into our Alliance. We now have 21 organisations supporting our UNESCO ambitions as we enter the project’s next phase on the detailed demarcation process for each of them.”


You can find out more information about Friends of Glasgow Necropolis and their free tours, which run throughout the year at their brilliant Friends of Glasgow Necropolis Website.

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