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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We are an exciting heritage project which tracks down, researches and archives fast disappearing signs around the city and we have developed tours and maps, to showcase the fascinating stories we have unearthed.
Ghost Signs are vital to the fabric of Glasgow’s urban landscape. A Ghost Sign is a fading sign that represents a business or establishment that no longer exists. We have been building an archive that will help us better understand the economic, architectural, social and cultural atmosphere of the Glasgow to which these signs belong and share it with you!
Saturday: 2:00 pm
Booking essential.
We are an exciting heritage project which tracks down, researches and archives fast disappearing signs around the city. Ghost Signs are vital to the fabric of Glasgow’s urban landscape. A Ghost Sign is a fading sign that represents a business or establishment that no longer exists.
We have been building an archive that will help us better understand the economic, architectural, social and cultural atmosphere of the Glasgow to which these signs belong and share it with you! We have developed tours and maps of the city, to showcase the fascinating stories we have unearthed.
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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.
An interactive walk exploring the architecture and geology of Glasgow’s West End, through looking, listening, and touching.
Discover how the rich history, once-mighty industrial heritage and dramatic natural landscape of the former village of Cathcart make it the unique and picturesque southside locality it is today.
Journey back in time, discover the dramatic story of Springburn’s rise and fall as an industrial powerhouse and locomotive manufacturer to the world through the lens of the dilapidated winter gardens.
Glasgow’s development as an industrial centre, its contribution to the global carbon economy and consequences for social development are explored with an expert eye.
The radical history of Pollokshields revealed – writers, artists, queer poets, Maoist bank-robbers, Fenian dynamite-plotters! Visit Kenmure Street, site of a great anti-racist victory.
This tour aims to uncover the city’s fascinating and complex food markets history, narrating stories of food and how its relationship with the people of Glasgow has changed throughout the centuries.
This year, Public Health at the University of Glasgow turns 100! To celebrate, we’re exploring the Western Infirmary site to learn about the history of public health in Glasgow. Join us!
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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.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust
Wellpark Enterprise Centre
120 Sydney Street, Glasgow
G31 1JF
www.gbpt.org
Registered Company Number: SC079721 Scottish Charity Number: SC015443
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