Bellahouston Park
Rolling parkland with a city-view hill, walled garden and relics of a 1938 world exhibition.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bellahouston Park in Glasgow returns to the first of June, nineteen eighty-two, when Pope John Paul the Second came to say an open-air Mass on its slopes in blazing heat. It follows the preparations that stirred the city, from drained bogland to felled trees and the protesters who chained themselves to them, and a homily about a faith that nearly vanished from Scotland. Best heard near the white brick wall on the hill.
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