TODAY we’ll take you back to the first four months of 1995. The construction workers returned to their work after the Christmas holidays and over started work on building the Paradise we all know and love today.
The transformation from building site to a 60,000 seated stadium beginning to emerge over this period is astonishing really.
After we get to the end of April 1995 you’ll start to see the early photographs – all taken by former Celtic Director Tom Grant, who worked as Fergus McCann’s right hand man in the re-building of Paradise after the successful removal of the old board – of Celtic Park really taking shape.
The Celtic Star’s Exclusive series showcasing the personal collection of photographs taken by Tom Grant as he watched on as the old Celtic Park – with the Jungle, Celtic End and Rangers End and of course the playing surface were all removed to make way for the Paradise we know and love today.
Before we move on to today’s instalment which begins our look at the Celtic Park construction in the early months of 1995, we can re-cap by mentioning our earlier articles over the last week on The Celtic Star from 1994 where you see the beginning of the modern arena at Celtic Park emerging from the dust and the rubble.
We thought that these photographs would be of great interest to the Celtic Support but even we’ve been astonished at the numbers of supporters viewing them every day. And we’ve had plenty of enquiries if these could be turned into a book.
Here’s the complete story so far…
If you have missed out on the earlier instalments in this series on The Celtic Star and want to catch up, the links are below. If you are up-to-date and just want to see today’s photos go straight to the next page…
Tom Grant’s Celtic Park Photographs, Day 1…
Tom Grant’s Celtic Park Photographs Day 2…
Tom Grant’s Celtic Park Photographs Day 3…
Tom Grant’s Celtic Park Photographs Day 4…
Now that you’ve all caught up – and each of those articles above really is not worth missing – we can click to see each image and start a journey through early January to end April 1995 and see a Paradise Re-born. We’re showing you many more photos today and we have tried to make it easier to view. Simple view then click to go to the next one, rather than loading them on top of each other and running over a number of days. Hope this works…
More pics tomorrow…
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