Announcement – Wednesday 15th May 2024
On 9th July 2022, The Hampden Collection organised a 3 Hampden Walking Tour exclusively for the loyal supporters of Queen’s Park Football Club. We asked our guests: Where is 3 Eglinton Terrace? This address is the fabled site of the founding meeting of Queen’s Park Football Club.
The reaction was a common one. There was no definitive answer given, as it had been a mystery for over 155 years at the time. Prospective theories had identified the potential site as 400 or 404 Victoria Road.
On 21st August 2023, The Hampden Collection published its theory on the research conducted on the following webpage: https://hampdencollection.com/3-eglinton-terrace/. We concluded a theory of 26 Prince Edward Street as our proposed location of 3 Eglinton Terrace.
The 3 Eglinton Terrace story is a key part of the ‘Story of Football’ and is a site within our Football’s Square Mile project. Therefore we asked Historic Environment Scotland (HES), as an independent authority, to assess all the available information, including theories put forward by others, to determine their interpretation of the location of 3 Eglinton Terrace.
Here is the outcome of this assessment:
‘Having looked at the various sources available to evidence the location of 3 Eglinton Terrace, the founding place of Queen’s Park FC, HES have concluded that the tenement block at 400-404 Victoria Road is the likely location. As 3 Eglinton Terrace is not specifically identified on any known map, this conclusion has been reached through the evidence of the Glasgow Street Directories, where the re-numbering of Eglinton Terrace addresses through into current Victoria Road addresses can be traced.‘
We are extremely grateful to HES for completing this assessment and providing their independent opinion, which is now available for all parties to use in interpreting this historic site.
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