This sustainability-themed exhibition showcases photos taken by 37 local residents, capturing Glasgow’s through an environmental and community lens.
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Join GCHT Director Niall Murphy to find out about the achievements of the Glasgow City Improvement Trust.
Over the course of the 19th Century, Glasgow suffered explosive city growth, with its population increasing from 77,000 in 1801 to 762,000 by 1901. This created problems of overcrowding, poor sanitation and population health issues, with the city’s housing conditions regarded as amongst the worst in Europe.
To combat this, in 1866 Lord Provost Blackie led a delegation including Glasgow’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr William Tennant Gairdner, and the City Architect, John Carrick to Europe to see what lessons could be learned. Having visited Amsterdam and Brussels it was Baron Haussmann’s Paris where they were most impressed by the urban innovations being introduced for Napoleon III.
Upon his return to Glasgow, Carrick drew up the City Improvement Act of 1866 with a programme of slum clearance to clear out and introduce light and air to the medieval heart of the city, making Glasgow a pioneer for municipal improvements.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust (GCHT) gives out almost £1 million in funding each year to help people in Glasgow protect, repair and promote the city’s historic buildings and places.
Our historic environment grants programme enable people to enjoy, understand and care for Glasgow’s historic built environment and to access funding and expertise which will ensure the sustainability of the city’s heritage for current and future generations.
GCHT is an independent charitable trust, supported by Glasgow City Council and Historic Environment Scotland.
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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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