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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“Oh the River Clyde, the wonderful Clyde”
200+ shipyards, world locomotives, Waverley sailing doon the watter.
James Watt-steam engine, the Comet.
Riverside Museum, tall ship, Queen Mary, Clyde Navigation buildings, Rotundas
Anti-fascist tributes, Clutha tragedy,Gothic church, new hotels, Renfrew Ferry.
Its all there as we walk along Clyde’s north bank from one side of the city to the other.
Even see the world’s oldest life saving operation, still operational.
Saturday: 10:00 am
Booking essential.
Free weekly, themed, guided walks are offered to visitors and fellow Glaswegians alike.
Six walks ranging from Glasgow Canal to Tobacco Lords, Medieval City, Buchanan St buildings and old Grahamston, as well as this Clyde Bridges walk.
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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.
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!
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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
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G31 1JF
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