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Glasgow Green is a stretch of parkland in
Glasgow's East End, situated between London
Road and the River Clyde.The first mention
of this park was in 1175 - which makes it
the oldest public park in the whole of
Europe.
In the past it has been the venue for
political activity, with several
demonstrations being held here over the
years.
And for many years this was where Glasgow's
public executions took place.
But most importantly this is traditionally
where the city workers escaped for an
afternoon stroll at the weekend - and today
you will still see people visiting the park
each Sunday, a tradition that Glaswegians
hold very dear.
Glasgow Green is also the venue for the
city's annual Guy Fawkes' Night
celebrations, often accompanied by a fair or
a rock concert.
Right in the heart of Glasgow Green is one
of the city's most popular tourist
attractions - the People's Palace.
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Greenhead Street entrance to the Dassie Green
August 2002
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Greenhead Street August
2002.,
DASSIE GREEN, original gates.
<<<DASSIE
GREEN
Unusual spelling, locally this was called
the Daisy park or McPhun's
park.
Around 1773, Robert McPhun, a local wood turner
and owner of Greenhead Saw Mill
in Mill Street funded 'McPhuns's Park (Dassie
Green).
No one seems to know the origin of
'Dassie'........
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Greenhead Street
August
2002. Nice view from the park looking
over to the lovely tenements of Greenhead Street
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Extract from e-mail
Dec.2003. Paul Gunnion, Glasgow ,
Scotland
"....I started to look at the street scenes and
the Dassie Park, Greenhead Street. While looking
at the shots I came across the photograph of
Greenhead Street's "lovely tenements" from the
park, with my old home right in the
middle! The ground floor bay window
through the left hand side of the gate was our
"lounge" window. My brother and two sisters and
I had twenty wonderful years in that house. As I
said in the guest book, I'll be back."
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JAN 2003.. THE GATES AND
RAILINGS HAVE BEEN REMOVED!
see my photographs.click here
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Extract from e-mail
Dec.2012. Paul Gunnion, Glasgow ,
Scotland
"....I haven't been here for ages, but a
childhood friend, Alex Danks, who lived in Greenlodge
Terrace and is now in Perth, Australia,
contacted me just before Christmas, after he saw
my comment about the 'lovely' tenements in
Greenhead Street, where I lived in the '50s and
'60s. Just after this 'meeting', we both made
contact with Billy Bulloch, who also lived in Greenhead
Street, and is now in Poole, in Dorset.
This comment is about the strange name given to
the Daisy Park. When I lived in Bridgeton, this
great wee park, beloved of mums with prams and
toddlers and 'old' men who played draughts on
the large stone outdoor board in front of the
'Parkies' hut, was called the Daisy Park by
everyone in Bridgeton, and officially was called
McPhun's Park, as your caption says, after the
owner of the sawmill in Mill Street.
If "no one knows the origin of Dassie Green"
what is the evidence for this strange name? I
have, somewhere, an old OS map of the Green and
its surrounding streets. When I have consulted
it, I will be back, with the intention of
starting a campaign to return this wee park,
much more spartan than its 1950s heyday, to its
'true' name �
The Daisy Park! |
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