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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Do you want to learn more about the role your community can play in making Scotland’s tenements more sustainable? Join Under One Roof Scotland on a tenement walking tour of the southside of Glasgow, where ground-breaking work in retrofit and sustainability is taking place.
Guests will be met at Queens Park Station, where you will be taken through the heart of Glasgow’s Southside. As you walk through rows of historic sandstone tenement buildings, you will learn about maintenance and management issues that affect these buildings, and how you can help your tenement block stand strong into the future. Next, you will visit the site of the Niddrie Road retrofit, a leading example of how to make older buildings more sustainable, without losing the heritage features. Here you can learn more about what sustainable improvements could look like in your home and community. The tour ends at the Quad, a shared garden in the hub of four tenement blocks, whose residents are committed to creating an enriching outdoor space for the community, with time for an ending discussion and questions with our hosts.
Nearest train station for your onward journey is Pollockshields East Station.
Saturday: 11:00 am
Booking essential.
Under One Roof is Scotland’s only charity that directly provides free and impartial information on repairs and maintenance to flat owners in Scotland. On our popular website and across our social media, we provide information on a range of topics, such as working with your co-owners and sustainability. Our goal is to keep Scottish buildings standing strong into the future.
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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.
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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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Wellpark Enterprise Centre
120 Sydney Street, Glasgow
G31 1JF
www.gbpt.org
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