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unusual facts about Recreation Park, Alloa


Recreation Park

Recreation Park, Alloa, a football ground in Alloa, Scotland, home of Alloa Athletic F.C.


Alloa

According to Alfred Barnard, the Victorian historian of British distilling and brewing, the distillery was founded as a malt distillery by John Bald in 1799.

Cameron Bridge

The third was transferred from Carsebridge distillery in Alloa when it was closed by United Distillers in 1983.

John Conner

Jack Conner (1898–1967), Scottish wing-half who played for Alloa Athletic, Celtic, Plymouth Argyle, Newport County and Torquay United

Kincardine Line

Under Scottish Executive funding, and to relieve congestion on the Forth Bridge, the line between Stirling and Alloa was reopened to passenger traffic, and the line to Kincardine was rebuilt for coal traffic to Longannet.

Ochilview Park

The station is located on the main Edinburgh to Dunblane Line and the Croy Line from Glasgow Queen Street, which alternates between Alloa and Dunblane via Stirling.

Philip Brodie, Lord Brodie

Brodie grew up in Alloa, Clackmannanshire and was educated at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire, and studied the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh (LL.B.) and the School of Law of the University of Virginia in the United States (LL.M.).

Robert Hogg

Bobby Hogg (1914–1975), Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Alloa Athletic, Scotland)

Willie Crilley

William "Wee Willie" Crilley (born 1903 in Cowcaddens, Scotland; 1955 in New York City) was a Scottish-American football (soccer) forward who holds the record for the greatest number of goals scored by an Alloa Athletic player in a single season of the Scottish Football League.


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