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…
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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…
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…
Websters theatre, Glasgow
Karen and I were lucky enough to be granted access to Websters Theatre (formerly Lansdowne Church), in order to photograph the stained glass. After clambering over pews and old pieces of church furniture it was well worth getting covered in dust to get some fantastic images. A post on the stained glass in the building will follow,…
Glasgow’s Stained Glass: Colour & Light
Exhibition Launch Venue: 54 Bell Street Date: 12th December 2014 Time: 4pm Glasgow City Heritage Trust presents Glasgow’s Stained Glass: Colour & Light. In September an ambitious three month project began to create an online database of Glasgow’s stained glass in conjunction with the Scottish Stained Glass Trust and RCAHMS. To celebrate the culmination of this…
History. Heritage. Hilarity. 