Dalziel High School War Memorial Trust

OUR HISTORY"THIS MAY BE THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT ADVENTURE"So said the headlines of the Motherwell Times on Friday 27th June 1947. It was in that year that the Former Pupils Committee of Dalziel High School decided that the school's memorial to Former Pupils who died during the two World Wars should take the form of playing fields. Cleland Estate was offered for sale by the Right Honourable Sir John Colville, P. C. , G. C. I. E. , for £6, 000. Feverish fundraising and a generous grant from Lanarkshire Education Committee enabled the purchase to go ahead. The whole estate covered almost two hundred acres and was identified as the ideal site for the first playing fields. Ten pitches for rugby, hockey and football were laid to start with, but very soon this number grew to sixteen with the addition of a cinder athletics track and what was known as Cleland House. But who was to run this exciting venture? To this end and until today the triumvirate which forms the War Memorial Trust is made up of the school, the parents and the former pupils. It was this committee who in 1990, faced with increasing maintenance costs and the need to upgrade the facilities transformed Cleland into Dalziel Park – one of the finest facilities in Scotland. The Trust committee still meets monthly and endeavours to maintain Dalziel Park with the diligence and enthusiasm that their predecessors have done.
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