1. This record was compiled by John Cunningham and John Wylie. At least three original copies of this publication are known to exist at the time of writing. One copy is lodged in the museum of the Scottish Rugby Union at Murrayfield. Photocopies have been made and it is also hoped to post a copy on the Internet.

2. I am indebted to Valerie Reilly of Paisley Library, a former Keeper of Local History, for this explanation. Previous notions included the apocryphal idea that the name derived from the sports undertaken by the Club, namely Cricket, Association (football), Rugby, Tennis, Hockey and Athletics, conveniently ignoring the rather obvious anomaly that the name preceded the introduction into the Club of some of these activities! A more cogent account (which the author encountered some years before embarking on this work but cannot, regrettably, rediscover the source) was that it came from Cart and ha’, the latter being a contraction of the old Scots word ‘haugh’, a low lying piece of ground by a river – which, indeed, described reasonably accurately the location of the Club’s first ground on the banks of the Cart, also in Pollok Park.

3. On the Jubilee of the hockey section in 1952, a history of the Club was compiled by George A Anderson. It would appear from the Club minutes to have been quite comprehensive, at least in regard to the office-bearers in each of the sections. Regrettably, no copy of this work has come to hand.

4. This is recorded in the Minutes of the Union on 7 December 1908.

5. The earliest volume in the SRU museum is for 1905/06 when it was called the ‘Scottish Athletic Guide’ and it continued as ‘Rowan’s Rugby Guide’ until 1963/64.

6. The menu card for the international dinner after the match has survived.

The Evening Times of 7 February 1908 contained the following item:

“Tomorrow the Scottish Hockey Association inaugurate the first of this year’s international games by engaging Wales at Pollok Park, Pollokshields, the spacious ground of the Cartha Club. This will be the sixth contest between the countries, the first having taken place in 1903 at Newport, Wales and as each has two wins to their credit with a drawn game in 1905, tomorrow’s game is looked upon in the nature of a rubber. Owing to several changes in the Welsh team their chances will be materially weakened and as the Scotch eleven will turn out as selected, a third successive victory is looked for from representatives of the Thistle”

The Scottish team was: J Burt (Rutherglen): W Neilson (R.) and R Dunn (Carlton); A Foulkes (C.) A S Burt (R.) and H Fraser (C.); Dr Stevenson (C.) and L A Mackenzie (Edinburgh University); J Harper Orr (E.U.) J Harley (St. Andrews University) and J Hackett (E.U.)

There was also an advertisement for the match which included the following:

“10 minutes walk from Dumbreck Car terminus at Maxwell Park Station. Bully off 3 o’clock. Admission 1/- Children 6d.”

7. The Victoria Cross was won on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, at the Leipzig Salient, Authuille.

8. Many references to the life of Sir John Stirling Maxwell can be found in the Mitchell Library and elsewhere.

9. Water runs away from Dumbreck Road, across the grounds towards the wall that forms the boundary so that the absence of, or inadequate, drains would mean water remaining on the grounds

10. Presumably this was the Glasgow District Junior Championship

11. The list of winners is given in the Sevens programme each year

12. The Cartha Athletic Club colours were royal blue and olive green stripes.