Join Glasgow City Heritage Trust Director Niall Murphy for a tour of some of the highlights from his Moments of Beauty series, exploring the Merchant City and beyond.
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We explore the heritage, culture and nature of Victoria Park from prehistoric times to the present. Your walk starts at the Jubilee Gates, which commemorate the Queen Victoria’s Jubilee and the opening of the Park in 1887. Learn more about the Victorians who gifted the land that forms the Park and the importance of the Park as one of Glasgow’s green spaces. We will pause at the SS Daphne memorial remembering the 124 dead stressing the importance of shipbuilding to the communities served by the Park. The Park has been enjoyed in various ways over the hundred or so years since it was created. You visit the most important features, some that no longer exist as well as those in current use. We illustrate how important the Park is and was to all for leisure pursuits and more. We take in the former bandstands, the Oswald Clock and the formal gardens, which are a significant ornamental feature of the Park. We visit the Fossil Grove with the famous fossil trees and the Fernery in the Quarry Knowe and the C listed Cenotaph. Then pause at ponds where there is a more recent feature, the Pandemic Memorial bench. The walk finishes at the former Partick Curling Club Pavilion.
Saturday: 2:00 pm
Booking essential.
The Aims of our Association are to advance the education and promote the welfare of the public by supporting, and assisting, in furthering the charitable activities of Victoria Park, and in furtherance thereof but not otherwise the Association shall seek: to stimulate public interest in and care for the beauty, history, wildlife, character and environment of Victoria Park and its surroundings; to seek to protect the green space and biodiversity of the Park, for its environmental, social, educational and health benefits; to encourage the preservation of its heritage.
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