http://www.attractions.glasgowvant.com/the-peoples-palace-and-winter-gardens/ From Museums to Ski Slopes. What to see and do when you are in Glasgow Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:23:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.attractions.glasgowvant.com/the-peoples-palace-and-winter-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-89 maylynda doyle Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:05:13 +0000 http://www.attractions.glasgowvant.com/?p=9#comment-89 My five year old daughter, Milly, and I recently stumbled upon the Irn Bru can can event in Glasgow Green which was great fun, especially since my daughter Milly is only allowed irn bru on special occasions so she thought all her xmas's had came at once when she was allowed a whole can! On the way back to the car we detoured passed a lovely waterfall where my daughter informed me was a statue of Queen Victoria. It was absolutely stunning, i had no idea who it was but clearly Milly knew. She then asked if we could go into the "People's Palace to see the single end", "where's that sweetheart?" I asked, she looked at me as if i had horns and said "mu-um its right there, lets go it, its free so doesnt matter if you've forgotten your purse as usual". So in she took me and straight up the stairs to the single end where she explained to me all about the families that lived in the single ends in the 1950's and what they had to do for a wash etc. I was absolutely mesmorised and could really feel the atmosphere. My eyes were brimming over at my wonderfully knowledgeable tourguide, who happened to be my five year old daughter. The reason she knew all of this was that her P1 class at school had been doing a project about the single end and they had went on a school trip to the People's Palace which obviously had a big effect on Milly. I told her that both her gran and papa had grown up in a single end in Glasgow. We had a fab day and went home laughing at our irn bru moustaches. And as Milly said, "it's all free mum". My five year old daughter, Milly, and I recently stumbled upon the Irn Bru can can event in Glasgow Green which was great fun, especially since my daughter Milly is only allowed irn bru on special occasions so she thought all her xmas’s had came at once when she was allowed a whole can!
On the way back to the car we detoured passed a lovely waterfall where my daughter informed me was a statue of Queen Victoria. It was absolutely stunning, i had no idea who it was but clearly Milly knew. She then asked if we could go into the “People’s Palace to see the single end”, “where’s that sweetheart?” I asked, she looked at me as if i had horns and said “mu-um its right there, lets go it, its free so doesnt matter if you’ve forgotten your purse as usual”.
So in she took me and straight up the stairs to the single end where she explained to me all about the families that lived in the single ends in the 1950′s and what they had to do for a wash etc. I was absolutely mesmorised and could really feel the atmosphere. My eyes were brimming over at my wonderfully knowledgeable tourguide, who happened to be my five year old daughter.
The reason she knew all of this was that her P1 class at school had been doing a project about the single end and they had went on a school trip to the People’s Palace which obviously had a big effect on Milly. I told her that both her gran and papa had grown up in a single end in Glasgow. We had a fab day and went home laughing at our irn bru moustaches. And as Milly said, “it’s all free mum”.

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