Scottish Premiership Football Stadiums Season 2021/22

 My latest upload to YouTube is a slideshow of artworks of Scottish Premiership Football Stadiums season 2021 / 22 created by me, based on public domain images. The stadiums are featured in team alphabetical order in the video

The images below feature in the video, although below they are in stadium name order.

Almondvale Stadium opened in 1995 as the home of Livingston FC, it has
a current capacity of 9512. The record attendance was 10112 v Rangers Fc
on the 27 October 2001.

Celtic moved to their current location in 1892, the stadium has been modernised
several times and now has a capacity of 60411. The record attendance is
83500 v Rangers on the 1 January 1938.

Dens Park is the home ground of Dundee FC and opened in 1899. It is just 200yds
from the ground of city rivals Dundee United. The capacity is 11775 and the record
attendance 43024 was v Rangers on 7 February 1953.

Hibernian FC play at Easter Road, Edinburgh which has a current
capacity of 20421. The largest crowd ever was 65860 on the 2 January 1950
when they played city rivals Hearts of Midlothian. They played their first
game here in 1893.

Fir Park has been the home of Motherwell FC since 1895 and has a capacity of 13677.
The largest crowd ever was 35632 for a game against Rangers on 12 March 1952.

Rangers FC have played at Ibrox Park, changed to Ibrox Stadium in
1997, since 1899 and the current capacity is 50817. The record attendance which is
also the largest ever for a domestic football match in Britain is 118567 for a league
fixture against Old Firm Rivals Celtic on the 2 January 1939.

McDiarmid Park in Pert is the home stadium of
St Johnstone FC. The capacity is 10696 and since opening in 1989
the record attendance is 10721 v Rangers on the 26 February 1991.

Pittodrie Stadium has been the home to Aberdeen FC since September 1899,
there are plans to replace the ground with a new build stadium but this has
been planned for at least 15 years. The current capacity is 20866 and the
record attendance is 45061 v Hearts of Midlothian 13 March 1954.

St Mirren Park hosted it's first game on the 31 January 2009, built to replace
the previous home of Love Street the ground has a capacity of 8023. The
record attendance is 7732 v Dundee United on the 26 May 2019. Their best
at Love Street was 47438.

Dundee United have called their home Tannadice Park since 1909 and the record
attendance is  28000 v Barcelona on the 16 November 1966. This is unlikely
to ever be beaten as the current capacity is around half that at 14223.

Tynecastle Park has a current capacity of 19852 and has been home to Hearts
of Midlothian since 1886. The record attendance is 53396 for a Scottish
Cup game against Rangers FC on the 13 February 1932.

Victoria Park opened in 1929 as the home ground of Ross County FC.
It has been the most northerly ground in senior British football since being
elected to Scottish Football League Division Three in 1994. The
current Capacity is 6541 and the record attendance was set
v Rangers in the Scottish Cup on the 28 February 1966.

I thought that because Celtic had the biggest home ground in Scotland and had massive support that they would also feature mostly in the other teams record attendances, surprisingly they were only the highest attendance once for a game against Rangers, Rangers were highest 7 times with Hearts of Midlothian featuring twice. Dundee United had the only non domestic highest for a game against Barcelona.

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Copley Railway Viaduct (The Lesser Known One)

Copley Railway Viaduct, its official title being MVN2/160 or Copley Bottom Bridge is a railway crossing over the River Calder. The bridge is hidden away at the bottom end of Old Rishworthians Sports Ground and North Dean Woods to the east side of the village of Copley, West Yorkshire.

Opened in August 1840 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway the bridge once carried the main railway traffic through the Calder Valley until the nearby lines at Milner Royd and Greetland Junctions were built to carry rail traffic in the direction of Halifax. The line over the bridge was subject to closure plans during the late 1970's after the removal of Brighouse (Closed 1970) and Elland (closed 1962) Stations, but continued as a diversionary route for passenger trains and carried freight only traffic during this period. until the reopening of Brighouse Station in 2000 saw passenger traffic crossing the bridge regularly again. The open nature of the North Dean Side of the viaduct allows great opportunities to photograph the steam trains that pass over the bridge quite often, but if seeking out this chance please remember to always keep a safe distance away from the tracks, I normally stay well within the tree line.

These pictures were taken using a Nikon d3300 SLR on the 25 February 2019. They can also be seen full size, resolution and un-watermarked on Clickasnap.

The Copley side of the viaduct

Taken on the North Dean side of the bridge, looking in the
direction of Copley.

The bridge again taken from the North Dean side.

Taken from the far end of Old Rishworthians sports ground.

The top of the bridge, the open nature of the track at the bottom of North
Dean Woods allows great access for taking pictures of trains passing.
Please be aware of a safety when near the lines, this is level with the tree
line which i consider a safe distance from the track. although when
trains are approaching I stand much further back than this.

The River Calder flows underneath the bridge,

The River Calder, taken looking towards Copley from underneath
the viaduct.

Again in the direction of Copley but from the other side of the bridge.

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Hollywood Male Glamour Style Art

 Hollywood Male Glamour Style art is my latest upload to YouTube featuring 20 original artworks by me, based on previously released photographs of male movie stars.

The artworks featured can also be seen below,

Basil Rathbone
13 June 1892 - 21 July 1967

Carl Weathers
14 January 1948

Cary Grant
18 January 1904 - 29 November 1986

Clark Gable
1 February 1901 - 16 November 1960

Dean Martin
7 June 1917 - 25 December 1995

Denzel Washington
28 December 1954

Errol Flynn
20 June 1909 - 14 October 1959

Fred Astaire
10 May 1899 - 22 June 1987

Gregory Peck
5 April 1916 - 12 June 2003

Humphrey Bogart
25 December 1899 - 14 January 1957

James Dean
8 February 1931 - 30 September 1955

Kirk Douglas
9 December 1916 - 5 February 2020

Marlon Brando
3 April 1924 - 1 July 2004

Morgan Freeman
1 June 1937

Paul Newman
26 January 1925 - 26 September 2008

Robert Redford
18 August 1936

Rock Hudson
17 November 1925 - 2 October 1985

Sean Connery
25 August 1930 - 31 October 2020

Sidney Poitier
20 February 1927 - 6 January 2022

Warren Beatty
30 March 1937

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Hollywood Glamour Girls

Hollywood Glamour is a recent upload of mine to YouTube featuring 21 Glamour Pin Up style images that I created. They are all based on public domain black and white images that I coloured and then turned in to a vintage style pin up artwork, none of the images feature any nudity.

All the images featured can also be seen below, the copyright of the image below shall remain mine, with the original image still the copyright of the owner.

Audrey Hepburn
4 May 1929 - 20 January 1993

Barbara Eden
23 August 1931

Betty Brosmer
2 August 1935

Betty Grable
18 December 1916 - 2 July 1973

Brigitte Bardot
28 September 1934

Carroll Baker
28 May 1931

Dorothy Burgess
4 March 1905 - 20 August 1961

Esther Williams
8 August 1921 - 6 June 2013

Gene Tierney
19 November 1920 - 6 November 1991

Jane Seymour
15 February 1951

Jayne Mansfield
19 April 1933 - 29 June 1967

Jean Harlow
3 March 1911 - 7 June 1937

Jill St John
19 August 1940

Joan Collins
23 May 1933

Joan Fulton (Shawlee)
5 March 1926 - 22 March 1987

Lillian Bond
18 January 1908 - 25 January 1991

Marilyn Maxwell
3 August 1921 - 20 March 1972

Marilyn Monroe
1 June 1926 - 5 August 1962

Mary Carlisle
3 February 1914 - 1 August 2018

Natalie Wood
20 July 1938 - 29 November 1981

Yvonne de Carlo
1 September 1922 - 8 January 2007

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All the artworks featured here are the creation of Colin Green, they were created from public domain copyright free black and white photos.