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Philanthropic bequests from Robert Couper and Stephen Mitchell created the Couper Institute and The Mitchell Library respectively. The Sir John Neilson Cuthbertson Primary School was named for the former School Board of Glasgow chairman in 1905.
Look inside particular public buildings and you’ll discover other memorials within. For example, there’s Langside Library’s magnificent mural of the Battle of Langside. This commemorates the conflict between the forces of Mary Queen of Scots and those of the Regent Moray in 1568.Of course, private buildings also act as memorials. An excellent example of this, and one of my favourite Glasgow buildings, is The Cleland Testimonial.
Fittingly for the dear green place, there are also areas of memorial parkland. For example, Carnwadric Park started life as King George’s Field. It was one of many similar fields created throughout the UK in memory of King George V after his death in 1936. This form of commemoration was deliberately chosen to be of more use and general enjoyment to the public than a statue.
Some of the most sobering and thought-provoking city memorials are those which are dedicated to people who died in wartime or in accidents. The Cenotaph in George Square and the large memorials in Victoria Park and at Govan Cross are just a few of the many tributes to the fallen of the First and Second
Wars. Twin memorials, one in Elder Park and the other in Victoria Park, memorialise the shipworkers of Govan and Partick who lost their lives during the disastrous sinking of the SS Daphne in 1883.
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