It’s all hands on deck here at the Glasgow’s Gilded Age Conference Headquarters, with less than a month to go now till the big day on May 8th, preparations have stepped up a gear and we have confirmed a fantastic line up of speakers. Every one is an expert in their field and is…
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Glasgow’s Gilded Age: Glamour and Grit 1864-1914
On the 8th of May a conference with a difference, being organised in part by ourselves, the History Girls, for the Glasgow City Heritage Trust, will be held at Cottiers Theatre and Restaurant in Glasgow’s West End. Our aims and intended outcomes, and more details about the conference are written below: ‘The Gilded Glasgow Project will…
Magical Mystery Tour: Miller & Lang Publishing House, Pollokshields.
We have been lucky enough to have been sent these wonderful images from Roger and Helen Millar, who have very kindly granted us permission to use them in our campaign to help catalogue and preserve Glasgow’s wonderful built heritage. The following images are of the, exterior and interior, Millar & Lang Publishing House on Darnely…
Stained Glass Database
Just a wee follow up post to connect with the last one, the Scottish Stained Glass Database, created by myself, RCAHMS, the Scottish Stained Glass Trust and Glasgow City Heritage Trust, is now up and running! Feel free to peruse the images and enjoy the glass we have catalogued. As the previous post stated, we…
The History Girls need you: Glasgow Stained Glass Appeal!
The History Girls are looking for any information regarding stained glass in Glasgow to add to an ever growing on-line resource. We are currently working in conjunction with The Scottish Stained Glass Trust to obtain as much inform as possible about Glasgow’s rich stained glass heritage. If you have any high quality images (no mobile…
Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries
This medieval fortress looks like a movie set, with its moat, unusual triangular shape and crumbling moss covered walls. It has in fact been used in various films and tv programmes over the years, and you can see why when you visit. Now under the car of Historic Scotland, Caerlaverock, like any good castle, has…
Lovely wee interview with Prof. John Hume and Webster Appeal
In 2013 the trustees of Four Acres Charitable Trust, responsible for Cottiers Theatre, took on another important Glasgow landmark, Lansdowne Church on Great Western Road. Lansdowne is being transformed into Websters Theatre named after stained glass designer Alf Webster. Rachael and myself have been lucky enough to get up close with these windows, and they’re…
Govanhill Baths, Glasgow
Whilst on a work placement with Glasgow City Heritage Trust as part of my MSc in Museum Studies at Glasgow, I designed and researched an exhibition celebrating and promoting Glasgow’s Victorian and Edwardian Swimming Baths. The exhibition was part of the GCHT’s 2014 Commonwealth Games summer celebrations, and I was delighted to be able to flex…
Linlithgow Loch
On a cold and misty morning I went for a walk round Linlithgow Loch, and here is the evidence that I both left the house and got some exercise. Linlithgow Loch and the palace which overlooks it really is stunning in all weathers, but my favourites include snow and winter sunshine. Unfortunately it was neither…
Lansdowne Church/Websters Theatre Stained Glass
As promised, here is a post on the stained glass within Websters Theatre, formerly Lansdowne Church, on Great Western Road in Glasgow. As the building is currently under renovation the stained glass in the upper galleries cannot be seen by visitors. It can only be viewed by intrepid dust covered explorers willing to risk life…
Hidden Glasgow Motifs – Pipe Smoking Monkey!
Hidden in The University of Glasgow’s Chapel, sits a small wooden monkey having a good puff on a pipe! Many an hour can be spent looking at the various (wooden and stone) carvings housed within the Chapel. Architect, Sir John Burnet, commissioned the Scottish sculptor Archibald Dawson A.R.S.A. (1892-1938) to create these creative, humorous and…
The Hogbacks at Govan Old
On a cold and dark afternoon in Govan I was thrilled to find myself looking at the ancient hogback stones in Govan Old Parish Church. Having studied Archaeology briefly at the University of Glasgow ,I was excited to finally see these sculptures in all their glory. They are far more spectacular, and in fact stranger, in…
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