Springburn Park was opened by Glasgow Corporation in 1892 and laid out to a design by the City Engineer,
A. B. McDonald. The local Reid family owned the nearby
Hyde Park Locomotive Works and lived in a large mansion, Belmont House, located at the north side of the park. 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. The condition was that the
Glasgow Corporation should pay for a winter garden in the park. Nevertheless, the family also made £10,000 available for the construction of the glasshouse by the company
Simpson & Farmer of
Partick between 1899 and 1900. The steel used came from the Temple Ironworks at
Anniesland and
Glengarnock Steelworks.
Restoration s. Similar structures on the east side of the building were demolished in the mid-1980s. After local community activists campaigned against the demolition of Springburn Public Halls in 2012, 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. Founding trustees included local politicians
Paul Sweeney and
Patricia Ferguson. An emergency repairs programme to save the building from collapse was undertaken during 2017. 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. == Description ==