It is Glasgow's oldest park.
of the People’s Palace as the city celebrates 125 years of the iconic museum. The Palace is located on the outskirts of a greenspace that predates it by hundreds of years – in fact, it is the city’s oldest park.
hired 324 staff to remodel the area. They built culverts over the park’s Calmachie and Molendinar burns, levelled out the space and drained it., which used to be part of the Assembly Rooms on Ingram Street. It was inspired by the triumphal arches of ancient Rome, and the Ionic columns of Greece. The Green was expanded in 1792 to include Flesher’s Haugh, which was previously privately owned and was once occupied by Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army during the Jacobite rising in 1745.
In the 19th century, the park became a hub for political unrest and change in Glasgow. Groups gathered in the park to demonstrate, protest and celebrate during some of the most testing times in the city’s economic and political history.prices, and it was the meeting place for conspirators in the Radical War, a series of strikes in 1820 urging the Scottish Parliament to reform.
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