Description

The oldest public park in Glasgow and reputedly in Europe. Its history can be traced back to 1450 when Bishop Turnbull gifted the common lands of Glasgow Green to the people of Glasgow. In 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) reviewed his troops on Flesher's Haugh before his ill-fated assault on London. The current layout of the park was created between 1817 and 1826, when the Camlachie and Molindinar burns were chanelled underground by unemployed weavers. Long at the centre of the people's struggle for justice the Green held suffragette demonstrations and is recognised as the birthplace of the British trade unions movement. Within the Green make sure to see the recently restored Doulton Fountain and Glasgow's own and the UK's first ever Nelson's Column. Dawn till dusk but never really closed as, it is a public thoroughfare.