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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Join us on meander around the three sections of the Southern Necropolis and learn about some of the history and characters, including Sir Thomas Lipton, Alexander Greek Thomson, Wee Willie White and the legendary White Lady. Be prepared to walk around her three times or she might turn you to stone. Another famous legend link for the cemetery being the Gorbals Vampire incident of 1954, when approximately 150 local children converged into the Southern Necropolis in the hunt for a seven foot vampire with iron teeth. Welcome to the Southern Necropolis : There is life in the City of the Dead.
Saturday: 12:00 pm
Booking essential.
Voluntary Community group striving to promote and preserve the educational, environmental and historical assets of the Gorbals very own “city of the dead”. The final resting place of approximately 250,000 contributors to the rich historical legacy of Glasgow, and the location of the legendary Gorbals Vampire incident back in 1954. Southern Necropolis : there is life in the City of the Dead.
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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.
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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.
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