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if you want to get nutty with it, there's a 245-year-old tunnel under the canal at the end of lochburn road that was built because that area at the time the canal was built was basically rural, and drovers needed to move their animals from, i dont know, to the market, or a different field or some shit, who cares. its known locally as the "halloween pend", "halloween" presumably being an amusing corruption of "hillend" which is the area at other end from lochburn road, and because the tunnel, being a dogleg, is pitch black and you can't see the other end when you go in it. apparently weans used to run through it as a challenge.

also unfortunately the surface underfoot is just...mud at the moment. this appears to be from water leaking through the archway (or pend in scots), and im not a structural engineer but does that not mean its going to eventually collapse?

but its certainly not something you'll hear about on tripadvisor

springburn park is also lovely. always very peaceful and quiet for some reason, and the ruins of the old winter gardens glasshouse are unforgettable. though it also says on the glasgow parks website that it has "one of scotland's most beautiful rockeries" but its actually pish. i think maybe they renovated it a few years ago but they certainly haven't maintained it ("the council haven't maintained it" should be springburn's motto). last time i was there it was basically a swamp full of litter