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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From the Devonian to the Dear Green Place, explore how Glasgow’s built heritage was shaped by forces from pre-history, learn about the changes that have taken place on the land Glasgow currently occupies over millennia and how these are visible today in the buildings you walk past regularly.
Volcanos, floods, fossils- Glasgow has had the lot and you’ll never see the city in the same way once your eyes have been opened to the details of the building blocks of the city centre. While the focus is going to be on what happened to these stones in Deep Time (back before humans were around to get involved) along the way you’ll be introduced to the stories of what has happened inside and around the buildings these rocks formed.
This new tour has been devised for Glasgow’s Doors Open Days 2023 by Joy Coppell, storyteller and guide with more than 10 years experience leading groups.
Friday: 11:30 am
Booking essential.
After graduating from the University of Glasgow with an MA in Ancient History, Joy decided she had had enough of reading about faraway places and wanted to get out to see them for herself. She spent several years working on cruise ships that sailed the rivers of Europe, developing a real soft spot for the Rhine.
Since returning to the UK she trained in Heritage Interpretation with the Association of Heritage Interpreters and GEM, and has worked for a number of heritage organisations, including the National Trust and Historic Scotland.
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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.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust
Wellpark Enterprise Centre
120 Sydney Street, Glasgow
G31 1JF
www.gbpt.org
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