Victoria Park, one of the 'dear green places' of which we in Glasgow are justifiably proud, was in the news this week.

Campaigners announced plans to form a human chain round the park in a bid to stop a pub being built there.

Not that this column likes to discourage pubs, but it does seem a rather strange location.

Victoria Park, in Scotstoun, is undoubtedly one of the jewels in Glasgow's green crown.

From its avenue of lime trees at the main gates, to the prehistoric trees of Fossil Grove, the boating pond and two curling rinks, there is a lot to see and do.

It was created in 1887, opened by the then Lord Provost Sir Andrew McLean, and named after the reigning monarch, who was celebrating her Golden Jubilee.

The park also contains one of the most striking war memorials in Glasgow, built to remember those from Whiteinch and Partick who died in the wars.

The granite memorial was erected in 1922 and is surmounted by a winged figure of Victory - a bronze female figure with outspread wings standing on a globe and holding out a wreath with both hands.

The inscription on the cenotaph reads: Our/beloved dead/to the glory of God/and in/grateful & everlasting/remembrance/of the men of/Partick & Whiteinch/who fell in the Great War/1914-1918/1939-1945.

It was the work of an English sculptor, Francis William Doyle-Jones, from Hartlepool in Yorkshire.

Among his other works were the Robert Burns memorial in the centre of Galashiel and a bronze bust of Irish freedom fighters Michael Collins.

There are war memorials dotted over Glasgow, the most visited being the cenotaph in George Square.

But the memorial to the dead in Victoria park is a stunning piece of architecture in what is arguably the city's prettiest park.