Central

Wellpark Terrace Gardens in Bonnybridge have been more or less left to the elements this year. A few weeks ago, the local council cut the grass and have done so since, but the flower beds, often so colourful over the summer, are now just overgrown patches of uncontrolled weeds.

There are signs of hope, though. A few smaller new patches with chuckies and bark have been created, like the one pictured, and when I walked through the park on Sunday afternoon two ladies were digging up one of the overgrown flower beds at the other end of the Gardens (having previously cleared one, they were now onto their second) and planting for next spring and summer. They explained that they were local volunteers working with the nearby primary school, the children there having created designs for the two flower beds.

The patch of garden in my photo contains a small section of railway line. This is a nod to the fact that the Gardens are located on the site of the former Bonnybridge Central railway station, a stop on the Glasgow to Larbert via Kilsyth and Bonnybridge route, which closed to passenger traffic in 1935.