Queen’s Park
Hilltop Victorian park with glasshouses, wildlife ponds and long views from a flagpole summit.
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This guide to Queen's Park in Glasgow begins with Sir Joseph Paxton, fresh from London's Crystal Palace, making his case to the city's councillors about the weather. It touches Mary, Queen of Scots and the battle fought on this ground, the unemployed men who dug the park, and the glasshouses that later filled with fish and reptiles. Listen near the ponds, where swans and coots have made themselves at home.
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