An interactive walk exploring the architecture and geology of Glasgow’s West End, through looking, listening, and touching.
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If you enjoy Moments of Beauty in Glasgow, join Niall Murphy, conservation architect and Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, for a walking tour exploring the highlights, both big and small.
Starting from Bell Street, the walk will head into Glasgow Cross via the High Street then on into the Merchant City via Albion Street. The tour will take in Wilson Street, Glassford Street, Ingram Street, Virginia Street, Miller Street, and Royal Exchange Square before finishing at the Lighthouse. Highlights include the lost realm of the Tobacco Lords, the high jinks of the Hellfire club, the devastation caused by the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank, the works of the Glasgow City Improvement Trust, Glasgow’s interwar ‘Avenue of the Americas’ and the County Buildings, Robert Adam’s Trades House, a Post-modern courtyard, Sir JJ Burnet’s baroque banking hall, a precocious facade, the site of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Ingram Street tea rooms, the link between Paris’s Arc du Triomphe and the Equestrian Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow’s links to slavery, and, the symbology of the Lighthouse.
Booking essential.
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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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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