Faustina

Got the bus along to Kirkintilloch to see an amateur photography exhibition that's on in the Auld Kirk Museum during January. However, the museum was closed in preparation for the exhibition that doesn't open until the 10th. Oops! Maybe I should have read the leaflet more closely.

Instead, my original plans having been thwarted by stupidity, I went for a walk around the adjacent Peel Park. It perhaps wasn't looking its best in the dark January afternoon and I had to resort to using my flash on this picture of the Hudson Fountain in the park.

A nearby plaque states that the fountain was donated to the people of Kirkintilloch in 1905 by Bailie Robert Hudson, one of the founding members of the town's Lion Foundry. The figure on the top is said to represent Faustina, daughter of the Roman Emperor Antonius Pius, after whom the Antonine Wall is named. The course of the Antonine Wall passes through Peel Park.