Old travel Blog photograph of Birkmyre Park in Kilmacolm located fifteen miles West of Glasgow, Scotland. In 1889 Adam Birkmyre bought the land to the front of Shalott with the intention of providing public recreation ground for the people of Kilmacolm in particular the youth and the young children. The park was formally opened on 7th June 1890 and a celebration was held. 400 school children took part in a parade and the head of this was the 1st Renfrew Voulenteer Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders pipe band. This was a gift to the people of Kilmacolm and he stipulated that nothing was to be built close by to either hinder or reduce the openness and the view or the place.
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