[1] Springburn Park was opened by Glasgow Corporation in 1892 and laid out to a design by the City Engineer, A.
The family gifted a bandstand, built by the Saracen Foundry, to the park in 1893 and also donated £12,000 to build Springburn Public Halls.
[4][6] After local community activists campaigned against the demolition of Springburn Public Halls in 2012,[7] the Springburn Winter Gardens Trust was founded as a registered Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2013, and has progressively worked towards a restoration plan for the building.
[9] An £8 million restoration programme by Collective Architecture to convert the building into a major events and performance venue was unveiled by the Trust in October 2020.
[1] The largest structure of its kind in Scotland, it is approximately 180 feet (55 metres) long and 9,060 sq ft (840 m2) in area.