Kelvingrove Park
Victorian riverside park of wooded slopes and lawns, home to an oak planted for women's suffrage.
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This guide to Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow follows Helen Crawfurd, a local campaigner for women's votes whose cause put her on the wrong side of the law, and the suffrage movement that gathered here on an April day in nineteen eighteen. It finds that story in a single Hungarian oak and the small plaque at its foot. Along the way you'll meet Louisa Lumsden and hear what a storm did to the tree a century later.
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