Their very unusual former employee became a local celebrity.
ON Sunday afternoon, the Friends of the People's Palace Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green gathered to celebrate the museum's 125th birthday.
It was a museum about the people, for the people – an open space which is welcome to anyone, from older generations who could reminisce on the aspects of city life portrayed in the museum to the younger crowd learning about what life was like for their grandparents and great-grandparents. Check out Sir Billy Connolly’s famous banana boots, sit in an Anderson shelter used during the SecondWar, go ‘doon the watter’ on steamers such as the Waverley, and go to the dancin’ at the Barrowland Ballroom.
In 2019 the gardens and the palace closed after the site was deemed structurally unsafe. But while the palace managed to reopen after a major refurbishment, and again in 2021 after being closed during the pandemic, the gardens remained closed and have become derelict. Not far from the fountain is a small plaque dedicated to a much-loved employee of the palace during the 1980s. She was hired by Glasgow City
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