Palmerston Park Palmerston Park Palmerston Park is a football stadium on Terregles Street in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish Championship club Queen of the South, who have played there since 1919. South of Scotland League club Heston Rovers have shared Palmerston since 2013. The stadium has a capacity of of which 3,377 are seats. Palmerston Park was first opened in 1919, when Queen of the South were formed, although football had been played on the site since the 1870s. The site of the ground was formerly a farm called Palmers Toun. This is on the
History of Queen of the South F.C. results through this period peaked in 1955–56 when after again leading the top division early in the season it finished in sixth place, a finish surpassed only once in the club's history. For Queens fans this was the time of the beautiful South. Queens were subsequently relegated from the top division in 1959. In February 1960 ex-Scotland and long-time Blackpool FA Cup winning goalkeeper George Farm signed for Queen of the South. Another ex-international, England's Ivor Broadis had already joined at the start of that season. Queens made it to the League Cup semi-final in 1960–61 for the second and