Another Spring photopost

[Arlen]

Looking good. Of course Glasgow is the Dear Green Place, so well blessed with parks. Rouken Glen and Pollok Estate were favourite haunts for Ann and I when we were courting.

Those pictures were taken in Rouken Glen park and Linn park. Both absolutely beautiful places.
I'm not surprised you used to do your courting there.
You still get all the couples sitting down by the old wheel house.


Did you ever visit the Whisky stone while you were there?

[cessna152towser]

Yes, Linn Park was another favourite and we would walk along the Riverside walk from Snuff Mill Bridge to the main park area. Can't say I've ever heard of the Whisky stone. Where and what is it?

[Arlen]

Yes, Linn Park was another favourite and we would walk along the Riverside walk from Snuff Mill Bridge to the main park area. Can't say I've ever heard of the Whisky stone. Where and what is it?

It's in Rouken Glen park. If I get the chance to go there next weekend I'll take some pictures.
Basically it's a large, almost tombstone shaped piece of sandstone that juts out of the rock-face and over the river just beyond the old rose gardens.
The boys that used to work in the mill would take anyone who had just completed their apprenticeship out on to the rock. They'd all get tanked on whisky and carve their names or initials into the rock.
When I first found it it was almost completely covered with moss. Ever since I go out each summer and gently clean it off so that it can be remembered.
There are names on there from a long, long time ago.

[Pour1Malt]

guid oan ya Arlen

ta fur sharin the piccies!

slainte mhath

[gangreenfootball]

Thanks for the pixs