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A Glasgow park is home to the city’s most ancient tourist attraction dating back over 300 million years.
While they were building the park, the workmen made an incredible discovery which has since become one of the park’s most fascinating features. When they tried to cut through an old quarry on the site, they discovered eleven fossilised stumps of extinct trees. Glaswegians from the Victorian era to the present day enjoyed using the greenspace to play on the bowling green and sports pitches, watch live concerts in the open air, enjoy paddle boating on the water in the summer and ice-skating in the winter.
East of the lake, the clock was given to the park by Gordon Oswald, a Scotstoun landowner who donated the land to be used for the park. The park also features a war memorial which was erected to commemorate local men from Partick and Whiteinch who fought in bothThere is also a memorial to the SS Daphne, a ship which tragically sank just moments after launching from the shipyard at Govan on its first voyage.
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