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This little pocket of peaceful parkland is far out of the city centre, but well worth a visit for its B-listed cast iron bandstand as well as its cutting edge BMX tracks.
The park is named after industrialist Lord Overtoun, a.k.a John Campbell White, who bestowed the land to the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen, but perhaps more infamous for his White’s Chemical Company. The company was found to be polluting the land in the 1800s, and much of it is still contaminated, making the gift of the park slightly ironic.
The cast iron bandstand was created by Walter MacFarlane & Co at their Saracen plant, where they also made the fountain located in Alexandra Park. It bears the inscription "Presented by Sir James Fleming Knight of Woodburn to the Corporation of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen 1914". Overtoun also has a cast iron fountain, this one dedicated to Queen Victoria’s jubilee and decorated with golden owls.
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