In celebration of this event, the Friends of Linn Park have done the following:
- Erected new information boards,
- Named the main tarmac path from the Snuff Mill Bridge to the White Bridge on the eastern side of the river as the Centenary Trail.
- Along the path, erected a number of small information posts.
- Created a set of post cards recording the park - reproduced below with permission from the second Friends group.
This is in addition to their normal activities of looking after the bird nesting boxes, planting flowers and trees, and general maintenance.
The limited edition of ten postcards are reproduced below with permission from the second Friends group for people who were unable to obtain a set. Please note that the postcards were scanned in using a very high resolution, so when you click one below, it will appear larger that the actual post card. If anyone wants to print the postcards, then please click here, and then close the window. Email us if you want help with printer settings - we thought it best to print both sides of the post card on one page A4 paper.
After OCR-ing the article reproduced on the rear of the first post card of the The Glasgow Herald article of July 4th 1901, apart from one word in the 4th paragraph, reads as follows:
GLASGOW, LINN PARK
OPENING BY THE LORD
PROVOST
The Linn Park Glasgow's most recently acquired estate, was opened on Saturday afternoon by the Lord Provost (Mr Thomas Paxton. A large company witnessed the ceremony at the Clarkston Road Gate, and the invited guests had the opportunity of inspecting the grounds prior to the admission of the public.
The Lord Provost, who was accompanied by Mrs Paxton, unlocked the gate with a gold key presented to him by the convenor of the Parks Committee, Mr Hugh McCulloch, and, headed by the band of the Glasgow Highlanders and the pipes of the Tramways Department, the guests marched along the avenue to the temporary bandstand, where the Load Provost formally declared the park open.
In the course of his address, the Lord Provost traced the development of the city's public parks, the greater part of which had taken place within the last 30 years. In justifying a progressive policy he referred to the comparative density of the population in Glasgow and Birmingham, pointing out that while the latter city, with a smaller population covered 43,000 acres, Glasgow covered only 19,000 acres. The tenement system was responsible, and we therefore required more lungs than the more spaciously built English cities.
As to the upkeep of parks, the Lord Provost reminded his audience there was no help from the Treasury, as was the case with London and Edinburgh. But he believed in "every herring hanging by its own tail" and the people were expected to pay for what they were getting. Fresh air was essential to human life. and they must go very much further in the way of acquiring pen spaces and public parks
The convener of the South Parks Sub-Committee Mr J. C Drummond expressed the opinion that the latest acquisition would prove one of the most popular parks in the city. A vote of thanks to the Lord Provost was proposed by Bailie J. Walsh, who, in a reference to Balloch Park, and the only thing wrong was that they could not get there. The right remedy for that was to improve the facilities for travelling to Loch Lomondside.
Mr H. E Gordon of Aitkenhead, from whom the Linn Park was purchased, was amongst those present at the ceremony.
The Ceteneary Post cards are shown below, the front to the left, and the reverse side to the right:
