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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Journey back in time and discover the dramatic story of Springburn’s rise and fall as an industrial powerhouse and locomotive manufacturer to the world. Tuning in to this year’s Doors Open theme, let your sensory imagination take over to feel and hear the sound of industrial Springburn contrasting with the fresh air and stillness of Springburn Park. Led by Paul Sweeney MSP, who is chair of Springburn Winter Gardens Trust, you will find out new things about the city, all through the lens of the magnificent Winter Gardens and its location, Springburn Park.
The Trust is working with numerous partners to bring the Winter Gardens back to life. You will hear more about the exciting plans on this tour.
Complimentary snacks to keep you going!
Saturday: 11:00 am
Booking essential.
Springburn Winter Gardens Trust is dedicated to bringing the Winter Gardens back to life. In the short term this will be as a managed, living ruin progressing through a phased approach, to a fuller restoration.
This is alongside supporting local groups to develop and save community heritage assets including statues and monuments.
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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.
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!
Join us for a walking tour through the Newlands of WW2 and hear the untold stories of the place, it’s people & those from Newlands who experienced the conflict both at home & overseas.
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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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