my athletics Centre
Grangemouth Stadium Grangemouth has an international-standard sports stadium and sports centre. This Stadium was built in 1966 (the year I was born) for the citizens of Grangemouth, it was partly funded by BP. (British petroleum) which was then a nationalised industry, the vast majority of the people in Scotland and England were Socialists or at least trade unionists, this was nearly 60 years ago! so many things have changed since then, when I was born and the stadium was opened Grangemouth was considered one of the most prosperous towns in Europe, even though there was no North Sea oil then! The oil for the refinery and petrochemical industry in those days, relied upon imported oil from America and the middle east shipped into the large industrial docks of Grangemouth, forth ports were then one of the busiest in Europe, there was not only the refinery and the massive ICI complex, there was also lots of local iron foundries and coal mines, these industries all required a large amou