Glasgow Green

The park (usually the Green or Glasgow Green), was the place where people used to escape the compact and over-crowded life of the tenement. it’s the place where they used to run as fast as they could, breath the freshest of air, lie flat on the grass, with arms and legs stretched, without the fear of bumping into someone or something in the tight rooms of the tenement. I’ve never lived in a tenement, but I can imagine how it must have felt for them.

Glasgow Green was more than just an open space in a city; it was where people have lived their dreams, and embraced their creativity, freedom, and the strong will to live without boundaries or walls (tenement walls of course).
The Green speaks more of Glasgow than any historian could. It reflects how the city’s social, economical and political life has developed over the centuries.