This sustainability-themed exhibition showcases photos taken by 37 local residents, capturing Glasgow’s through an environmental and community lens.
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Making Sense of the City
Using vintage photography, let Norry Wilson guide you through the forgotten sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of Lost Glasgow.
From the fragrant scents of the old Fruitmarket, via the seafresh tang of the Briggait fish market, to the lactic reek of the old Cheese market, he’ll lead you by the nose through the old streets and wynds of forgotten pongs.
Pin back your ears for the rumble of iron wheels on granite setts, the chime of Medieval church bells, and the ‘song of the Clyde’ – the hammers and hooters which brought life and wealth to our once mighty river.
Sit back and dine on fine fowl with the Partick Duck Club, fill your glass with a refreshing Glasgow Punch, while the wee ones can sup on some sma’ beer.
Open your eyes to the now-vanished wonders of our city; from the Great Exhibitions to the giant lums and furnaces whose smoke and fire once set Glasgow’s night skies aglow.
Through personal stories, history books, and newspaper stories, this is a psychogoegraphy of a vanished Glasgow that will make you sense the city anew.
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Lost Glasgow – the city’s biggest online archive for vintage photography and old stories – uses the past to look to the future. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, how can you know where you are going?
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This sustainability-themed exhibition showcases photos taken by 37 local residents, capturing Glasgow’s through an environmental and community lens.
Join us for a building tour culminating in the heart of our home – Parveen’s Canteen- to share food and learn about Civic House’s award-winning transformation into Scotland’s first ‘PassiveWareHaus’.
This half hour or so talk with questions at the end will focus on online records unique to the Trades House of Glasgow and how to search for Burgesses in Glasgow up to around 1950.
An improvised performance responding to Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks through sound and spoken word. Part of Doors Open Day.
Join us at the ARC for the first screening event in our CinemARC series. We’re thrilled to present this special screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film, Rear Window.
“It Was The Loom That Broke My Heart” is a interactive multimedia installation informed by the social heritage of the French Street building, originally a weaving and dyeworks.
SKETCHES Film Project is a series of short dance duets by choreographer Katie Armstrong. The films were captured in 3 iconic locations across Govanhill and Pollokshields in 2019.
If these walls could talk, what would they say? What kind of voice would the Hydro have? If Maryhill Museum was a character who would they be?
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Organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, Glasgow Doors Open Days is part of a family of Doors Open Days events taking place across Scotland throughout September, coordinated nationally by the Scottish Civic Trust.
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G31 1JF
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