Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic - Archive
Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic F.C. are a Scottish junior football club from the town of Bonnyrigg, Midlothian. The club was founded in 1881 from Bonnyrigg Swifts who trace their origins back to 1874 and were nicknamed the Rose.
Our home ground is New Dundas Park, and our colours are red and white hoops.
Scottish Junior Cup
Winners: 1965–66, 1977–78
Runners-up: 1971–72
East Super League
Winners: 2008–09
Runners-Up: 2006–07
Other honours
Fife & Lothians Cup: 1981–82, 2004–05, 2006–07
Edinburgh & District League winners: 1937–38, 1963–64
East Region Division One winners: 1975–76, 1976–77, 1984–85
East Region Division Two winners: 1983–84
East of Scotland Junior Cup: 1897–98, 1962–63, 1985–86, 1986–87, 2002–03, 2005–06
East Junior League Cup: 1983–84, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2000–01
Brown Cup: 1933–34, 1963–64, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1985–86, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07
Dalmeny Cup: 1922–23
Andy Kelly Memorial Cup: 2006
Notable former players
New Dundas Park History
New Dundas Park is much smaller today than was when originally purchased by the Trustees of Bonnyrigg Rose Ath.F.C. from Sir Hendry Dundas and his mother Dame Jean Hood or Dundas for £500 on the 10th June1953.
The Trustees or Club officials who negotiated the purchase were John Allan President, Daniel Thomson Vice-President, William Scotland Secretary,and William Forsyth Treasurer.
The original purchase document ensures that the ground will only be managed by the elected Club Officials who are the designated Trustees of the football club.
The original purchase extended from the current back gardens of the Waverley Terrace houses to the boundery wall of the current Bonnyrigg Rose Social Club [the land and car park for this venture was sold by the Trustees of the football club to the social club fof £100 on 20th August 1971] Two other sales were made from the original purchase by the Trustees, namely to Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Town Council in March 1954 of 2.96 acres that we now recognise as the Dundas Park development.
The last recorded sale by Trustees is in 1991 to Developers Hopetoun Developerments who were building The Auld Orchard houses and needed extra ground to have adeqate vehicle access for the development. This sale netted the Trustees £10.000 for the football club. New Dundas Park has had its share of triumphs and tears none greater than last September (09) when the old pavilion was burned down by fire raisers, an era diappeared in a few hours , however plans are afoot to rebuild a replacement and begin a new chapter in the New Dundas Park story.
Click on the image above for article on Sean Connery's time playing for the rose!
Presentation of Life Membership to John White Tottenham Hotspur by Provost Adam Hunter also in the photograph is his wife Helen standing. The other lady is not yet been identified yet but it is thought to be the wife of one of the Officials. The presentation took place at the Woodside Hotel in Musselburgh. Date...1961
The 1966 Scottish Junior Cup Winners enjoing the BIG BATH at Hampden after their victory in May 1966.
In the photo from left to right
Alex Wilson
Tom Davidson
Archie Young
Andy Kelly
Tommy Titterton
Robert Nisbet
John Cattenach..
Group of four are the early photos of Bonnyrigg Swifts 1878 and 1880. [top two]
Bottom left - Bonnyrigg Rose 1897.98 Winners of East of Scotland Cup--Lochgelly Shield---Midlothian League.
Bottom right - Bonnyrigg Rose team 1926/27.
3 players admiring their succees Seated Bobby Reid and Wilson Bertram. standing to be identified
Aphoto of the team celebrating on Hampden park after being presented with the cup in front of the photographers.
L to R.. Adam Hunter JP. Willie McIlwhan and Henry Clark admiring
the Scottish Cup.
To the Right, Two of the 21 best wishes telegrammes delivered by the Bonnyrigg Post master Gus Sinclair
to the Captain and others of the 1978 Scottish Junior Cup winning team.
The Late Mich Murphy vice preident admires a photo of the
late John White
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