St Bernard's Football Club were a football club based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The club was established in 1878 and joined the Scottish Football League. They played at several different grounds before making the Royal Gymnasium Ground their long-term home. However, after having to sell it in 1943, the club was dissolved.
History
Early years
The club was originally the Third Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers – like Third Lanark, it was a team linked to the territorial movement of the Victorian era - who had been inspired to set up a football team after watching an exhibition match between Queen's Park and Clydesdale. Buying a ball at Percival King's sports shop in Lothian Street, they formed a club at the British League of Abstainers' office in February 1874.
Originally the club played at The Meadows along with Heart of Midlothian and later also Hibernian, before moving to their own ground, firstly at Powburn Park in Newington and then to John Hope's Park in Stockbridge, where its close proximity to the then playing fields of Edinburgh Academy helped them gain a following. Those in charge of the Third Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers began to see the club as a distraction, and this resulted in the club divorcing itself from the regiment in 1878, as James Dunn and George Heathcote rechristened the club "St Bernard's" (with an apostrophe) after the famous St Bernard's Well sitting on the banks of the Water of Leith nearby, and which formed the badge of the club.
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Montage of the Club's 2015 Premiership Season in the VAFA.
published: 12 May 2016
Site of Royal Gymansium - St Bernards FC (1996)
Edinburgh side St Bernards graced the Scottish League from 1893-1914 then 1921-40, with the club being based at the Royal Gymnasium in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh from 1924 onwards.
The ground boasted an impressive grandstand which could be accessed from the rear, via a bridge from Royal Crescent. The gates which led to the bridge are still in place (0:41 on the footage).
Much of the site of the Royal Gymansium is now built over, although a sizeable portion was converted into the King George V Public Park.
In 1994, a plaque was placed at the entrance to the park in commemoration of the club's Scottish Cup win 100 years earlier.
published: 07 May 2010
Vlog 20180804: Barnton Station and St Bernards FC
So I thought I would try out a new format. I went down to Barnton to see the only visible remains of a railway then on into the city to see the site of a Football team long forgotten.
published: 04 Aug 2018
St. Bernards razza 2017
published: 06 Nov 2017
VAFA 2015 William Buck Premier Grand Final: St Bernard's vs Old Trinity
The VAFA 2015 William Buck Premier Grand Final between St Bernard's and Old Trinity lived up to all expectations with just eight points separating the two sides at the final siren.
Edinburgh side St Bernards graced the Scottish League from 1893-1914 then 1921-40, with the club being based at the Royal Gymnasium in the Stockbridge area of E...
Edinburgh side St Bernards graced the Scottish League from 1893-1914 then 1921-40, with the club being based at the Royal Gymnasium in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh from 1924 onwards.
The ground boasted an impressive grandstand which could be accessed from the rear, via a bridge from Royal Crescent. The gates which led to the bridge are still in place (0:41 on the footage).
Much of the site of the Royal Gymansium is now built over, although a sizeable portion was converted into the King George V Public Park.
In 1994, a plaque was placed at the entrance to the park in commemoration of the club's Scottish Cup win 100 years earlier.
Edinburgh side St Bernards graced the Scottish League from 1893-1914 then 1921-40, with the club being based at the Royal Gymnasium in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh from 1924 onwards.
The ground boasted an impressive grandstand which could be accessed from the rear, via a bridge from Royal Crescent. The gates which led to the bridge are still in place (0:41 on the footage).
Much of the site of the Royal Gymansium is now built over, although a sizeable portion was converted into the King George V Public Park.
In 1994, a plaque was placed at the entrance to the park in commemoration of the club's Scottish Cup win 100 years earlier.
So I thought I would try out a new format. I went down to Barnton to see the only visible remains of a railway then on into the city to see the site of a Footba...
So I thought I would try out a new format. I went down to Barnton to see the only visible remains of a railway then on into the city to see the site of a Football team long forgotten.
So I thought I would try out a new format. I went down to Barnton to see the only visible remains of a railway then on into the city to see the site of a Football team long forgotten.
The VAFA 2015 William Buck Premier Grand Final between St Bernard's and Old Trinity lived up to all expectations with just eight points separating the two sides...
The VAFA 2015 William Buck Premier Grand Final between St Bernard's and Old Trinity lived up to all expectations with just eight points separating the two sides at the final siren.
The VAFA 2015 William Buck Premier Grand Final between St Bernard's and Old Trinity lived up to all expectations with just eight points separating the two sides at the final siren.
Edinburgh side St Bernards graced the Scottish League from 1893-1914 then 1921-40, with the club being based at the Royal Gymnasium in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh from 1924 onwards.
The ground boasted an impressive grandstand which could be accessed from the rear, via a bridge from Royal Crescent. The gates which led to the bridge are still in place (0:41 on the footage).
Much of the site of the Royal Gymansium is now built over, although a sizeable portion was converted into the King George V Public Park.
In 1994, a plaque was placed at the entrance to the park in commemoration of the club's Scottish Cup win 100 years earlier.
So I thought I would try out a new format. I went down to Barnton to see the only visible remains of a railway then on into the city to see the site of a Football team long forgotten.
The VAFA 2015 William Buck Premier Grand Final between St Bernard's and Old Trinity lived up to all expectations with just eight points separating the two sides at the final siren.
Dugan is in his third season as a part of Stanford’s pitching staff after a sensational career at St. Bernard’s where Dugan recorded 239 strikeouts in 106.2 varsity innings ... Dugan on the mound last year for St ... Patrick-St.
He was shot and killed in a church parking lot early Tuesday night ...New London police, responding to 6.18 p.m ... Don Macrino, St. Bernard's head of school, said he was saddened by the news of Rivera's death and immediately informed his facult.
He was shot and killed in a church parking lot early Tuesday night ...New London police, responding to 6.18 p.m ... Don Macrino, St. Bernard's head of school, said he was saddened by the news of Rivera's death and immediately informed his facult.
Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, chief partnerships officer at Women's March, said a flood of people are coming forward to join existing groups or create new ones ... the country," St. Bernard-Jacobs said.
... mother who finds herself simultaneously dealing with the guilt of an affair and in a life-or-death circumstance that sees herself trapped in a broken down car during a heat wave by a rabid St. Bernard.
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“Bravo was let down by our defense ...Fortuna then defeated reigning Little 4 champion St. Bernard’s on Tuesday 13-1 with Bravo again homering ... The ArcataTigers of the Big 5 are 0-2 after losses to H-DNL rivals in St. Bernard’s and McKinleyville ... .
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