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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Glesga_Steve » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:15 pm

# 18 : Hayburn Park - Hayburn Crescent, Hyndland (GSV)

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Accidental find as I'd never heard of it before.
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby HollowHorn » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:16 pm

#19 : Naseby Park in Hyndland :

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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Glesga_Steve » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:28 pm

AlanM wrote:Dowanhill Park

Old Station Park, Hyndland


Alan,

Can't find either of these - where are they?

Incidentally, while having a look for them on Google Maps/Street View, I noticed there are quite a few privately owned 'parks' in that area. It hadn't occurred to me that private parks existed in Glasgow, never mind that there are so many.
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Josef » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:34 pm

Quite contrarily, I had always assumed there were loads of them, and consequently wasn't sure if they should be counted or not.

Is Blythswood Square public land, for example? And the gardens behind Sauchiehall Street (the part of it opposite Newton Place) leading up to the start of Kelvingrove Park?
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby HollowHorn » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:34 pm

#20 : Old Station Park, Hyndland:
Just where the trees are, sorry, it's the nearest one I have:
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Glesga_Steve » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:37 pm

moonbeam wrote:I forgot to add Beardmore Park. Its off Shettleston Road. I dont know if the city council
have handed it over to a local comnmunity group and hence may not be on the City
Council "list".Is Dawsholm Park on the list?


I think you're right, as far as I'm aware Beardmore Park isn't a GCC park.
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby HollowHorn » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:39 pm

Kelvingrove Park is not confirmed? Is it classed as a garden 8O
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Josef » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:42 pm

HollowHorn wrote:Kelvingrove Park is not confirmed? Is it classed as a garden 8O


No photographic evidence on this thread. Get those West End Festival photos out the cupboard.
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Glesga_Steve » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:49 pm

#21 : Dowanhill Park - Havelock Street, Hyndland (GSV)

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PS - Credit goes to Alan as I hadn't heard of this one

Still looking for Old Station Park
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby HollowHorn » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:55 pm

Ah, my mistake, I get it now.

#22 : Kelvingrove Park:

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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Glesga_Steve » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:58 pm

#23 : Auchinlea Park - Auchinlea Road, Easterhouse (GSV)

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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Glesga_Steve » Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:04 am

#24 : Barlanark Park - Kerrera Road, Barlanark (surprisingly eh) (GSV)

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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Glesga_Steve » Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:11 am

#25 : Barrachnie Park - Mount Vernon Avenue, Barrachnie (GSV)

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There used to be a GCC sign at the entrance shown in the above image. No idea where the sign has gone to but def still a GCC park.
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Mori » Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:08 am

HollowHorn wrote:I see no mention of McPhun's Park, did I miss it?

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McPhun's Park, Dassie Green or Daisy Green is located at the south east end of Glasgow Green beside the Flesher's Haugh Football Centre of Excellence. It is less well used than other areas of the Green conveying a sense of peace and tranquillity.

It was the home of the Springtime Sculpture, the Watt Statue and Bird Table all of which had been vandalised due to the remoteness of the site. After restoration they were moved to more prominent locations in the Winter Garden Enclosure.

The Highland Light Infantry War Memorial remains intact. The memorial is a tall celtic cross with simple and elegant knotwork. Battle honours are listed at the base; Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, France, Belgium and Mesopotamia. A plain inscribed panel inset into a white granite base reads:


"To the Glorious memory of Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Men 7th Blythswood Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry who fell in the Great War 1914-18.
Erected by comrades and Friends."

The war memorial was restored in time for the Remembrance Service held on Sunday 07 November 2005.

The park once featured a wagon wheel arrangement of rose beds. The path pattern was changed to create a central, robust stone spiral in blocks of ancient Scottish gneiss, a feature which interprets special dates in the development of Glasgow and Glasgow Green. It is laid out in a spiral which the public can walk into, tracing their steps backwards in time to a central stone feature


Ooops, Is this the one you mean, Mori? :oops:

McPhun's Park, Dassie Green or Daisy Green


Yep thats the one HH thanks for that, can always rely on your expertise mate, i was born and lived in the blonde tenament housing block right behind that photy, i'll need to take a trip up there to see how the area has been upgraded, a lot of the fountians and monuments in that area were always vandalised and neglected as far as i can remember, :D cheers matey.
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Re: Glasgow Parks

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:38 am

HollowHorn wrote:#20 : Old Station Park, Hyndland:
Just where the trees are, sorry, it's the nearest one I have:
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I couldn't see any signage
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