New Pergola Enhances Park's Peace Garden

The pergola, a new path and two wooden archways were installed with £17,000 in investment from the council's Dennistoun Area Partnership. The new additions to the park are striking features at the centre of a new Peace Garden which is being created by the council in partnership with the Friends of Alexandra Park Group.

Councillor Allan Casey, local councillor and Chair of Dennistoun Area Partnership, said: "The pergola provides a lovely focal point in the Peace Garden where people can sit and remember lost loved ones. When complete, the Peace Garden will also provide a tranquil location within the park where people can lay tributes in memory of people who have passed away.

"The council is working closely with the Friends of Group to source funding to create this dedicated space within the park where people will be able to sit, surrounded by nature while recalling fond memories of people who have passed away."

The new pergola, path and archways are a major step forward for the Peace Garden project.

William McLaughlin, Chair of the Friends of Alexandra Park Group, said the idea was conceived during the Covid 19 pandemic and it will be a place of quiet contemplation for anyone who lost loved ones.

He added: "I would like thank the Dennistoun Area Partnership for helping us fund the Peace Garden, also the local councillors that have helped us along the way and of course the local community - without you we would not have a Friends Group!"

Funding from the area partnership also helped to install several new black metal, picnic benches, which are wheelchair accessible, beside the children's play area.