Join Glasgow City Heritage Trust Director Niall Murphy for a tour of some of the highlights from his Moments of Beauty series, exploring the Merchant City and beyond.
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Hugh MacDonald was a journalist and poet in early Victorian Glasgow, back when most of the city we know today had not yet been built. The 21st Century edition of his 1854 book “Rambles Round Glasgow” was published this year.
Go on a walk with Karen Murdarasi, who annotated the new edition, following the path of parts of his rambles, and learn how the city has changed, and what still remains from MacDonald’s day.
The walk will pass through Bridgeton, where MacDonald was born and where he worked in the textile trade; Glasgow Green, taking in MacDonald’s memorial fountain and obelisk; and the “crowded and withal repulsive High Street”, a place of terrible squalor but also rich with Glasgow history, including one of William Wallace’s battles!
This is Karen’s first time leading a Doors Open trail. She hopes you will enjoy getting to know one of Glasgow’s historic personalities, and keeking through the chinks in time at mid-nineteenth century Glasgow.
The train will finish at the junction of High Street and Duke Street, near High Street Station.
Friday: 10:00 am
Saturday: 2:00 pm
Booking essential.
I am a Glasgow author. I annotated the new 21st Century Edition of Hugh MacDonald’s “Rambles Round Glasgow”, which was released in paperback in March 2023. I have experience of public speaking and I have given author talks before. I have also led informal excursions as part of an Esperanto club.
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