"Bonnie Wee Well"

The well, a memorial to the poet Hugh Macdonald, is located in Gleniffer Road, at Macdonald's Rest, within the bounds of Gleniffer Braes Country Park.
A few years after Hugh Macdonald's death, a smaller structure (the original "Bonnie Wee Well",) named after the title of one of his poems was erected here, to the poet's memory, by the Glasgow Ramblers' Club. This first memorial was damaged on several occasions, and was finally removed to Glasgow Green.

The Paisley Old Weaver's Society then raised funds for a new memorial. This is the new memorial, which was erected in the same place as the earlier one, and in 1883 a crowd of around 6500 attended the inauguration of the well.

Looking a bit dated now and in need of some repairs the well no longer runs. In fact you can hardly see it from the road now. In my younger days it was a good walk to the Bonnie Wee Well and a welll earned drink you had from it.