SOLD OUT In Person Talk: Legacies of Slavery and Empire in Glasgow’s Architectural Heritage

Posted September 30th 2022

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Wednesday 26th October | 6:30pm BST | Glasgow City Chambers

Join Dr Anthony Lewis from Glasgow Life to hear how legacies of slavery and empire in Glasgow are manifested in its architecture from the 17th and 18th centuries. Dr Lewis will focus on the city’s architectural heritage in existing spaces, streets and buildings and review the past as discovered and displayed in Glasgow Life museum collections.

Dr Lewis is the curator for Scottish History for Glasgow Life Museums. He has researched Georgian Glasgow’s urban and architectural history and delivered exhibitions and publications.

Free, booking required, donations welcome.

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Online Talk: Taps Aff! The Mystery of the Missing Monuments: What Happened After the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival?

Posted September 9th 2022

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Thursday 6th October | 7pm BST | via Zoom

The 1988 Garden Festival changed how the world saw Glasgow, and how it saw itself. It lives on only in people’s memories as the buildings, objects and artworks from this temporary event are gone forever – or are they?

Join Urban Prehistorian Kenny Brophy, Project Leader Lex Lamb, and Holder of the Official Garden Festival Umbrella Gordon Barr to learn how they have used crowdsourcing to build an ever growing digital record of the hundreds of pavilions, sculptures and attractions that made up the Festival.

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What Next for Glasgow’s City Centre? In-Person Panel Discussion

Posted August 25th 2022

Wednesday, 28th September | 7:00pm | The Merchants House, 7 West George Street, G2 1BA

Join GCHT for an in-person panel discussion that asks the question, “What Next for Glasgow’s City Centre?”

Our panelists will look at the challenges currently affecting the city centre such as the legacy of the Covid 19 pandemic, the high number of vacant buildings and the decline in shopfront retail, as well as how solutions to these challenges can help tackle the climate crisis.

After hearing from our expert panelists, we’ll open it up to you for questions and discussion, so you can have your say about how we can shape a city centre that maintains its historic character and is accessible, safe and functional for Glasgow’s people and visitors.

The event will be chaired by Bailie Christy Mearns, Depute Lord Provost

The panellists will be:

Paola Pasino, Glasgow City Council

Tam Coyle, Chair of the Merchant City & Trongate Community Council

Thierry Lye, Chair of the New Glasgow Society

Euan Leitch, Chief Executive of SURF

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£7 per person, £5 concessions

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Online CPD: Architecture and Health in Historic Buildings

Posted August 12th 2022

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Thursday 8th September 2022 | 12.30-1.30pm | via Zoom

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All GCHT CPD sessions are recognised by the IHBC, and attendees can obtain a CPD certificate upon completion.

£15 per person / £10 for students

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Understanding Ghost Signs: Ghost Signs of Glasgow Tour and Sign Writing Workshop with Women’s Type Foundry

Posted July 20th 2022

Saturday 20th August 2022 | 10.30am to 5pm | Ghost Signs of Glasgow tour meeting point: George Square | Followed by lunch and sign writing workshop: GCHT office, 54 Bell Street, Glasgow, G1 1LQ.

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Booking essential

Lunch included in the price

£59 per person

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Posted July 20th 2022

Wednesday 24th August 2022 | 7pm to 8.30pm | Friends of Glasgow Royal Infirmary Museum, old Royal Infirmary Entrance in Cathedral Square. Disabled access via main hospital entrance off Castle Street.

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CPD: Upgrading a Traditional Tenement Building

Posted June 1st 2022

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Thursday 14th July 2022 | 12.30-1.30pm | via Zoom

In this CPD, Chris Morgan of John Gilbert Architects will be discussing the current works being done to upgrade a traditional Glaswegian tenement building on Niddrie Road to meet the EnerPHit standard.

The project, commissioned by Southside Housing Association, aims to demonstrate an approach that rigorously tackles energy efficiency and fuel poverty whilst also addressing issues related to health and well-being as well as heritage, building maintenance and management.

Attendees will get to learn about the works being undertaken, explore the innovative monitoring and 3D scans the team has been doing, and hear what the project means for helping Scotland’s historic housing stock tackle the climate crisis.

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The CPD will be recorded and available to all ticket holders after the event.

£15 per person / £10 for students.

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All sessions are recognised by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) as being capable of contributing to the obligatory CPD requirements of Full Members (see www.ihbc.org.uk)

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In Person Tour and Talk: Exploring Historic Interiors at Holmwood House Sold Out

Posted June 1st 2022

**Sold Out** Wednesday 6th July 2022 | 6pm to 9pm | Holmwood House | 61-63 Netherlee Rd, Glasgow G44 3YU

Join us for an exciting night in the exclusive venue of Holmwood House, one of the most architecturally significant historic villas in Scotland, owned by the National Trust for Scotland. The night will consists of an in person tour of the house and a lecture on historic interiors and wallpapers.

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Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson first designed the villa for paper magnate James Couper and his wife in 1857–8, and the architect’s penchant for Grecian styling and symmetry is found throughout the villa, where the bold opulent decoration echoes the colours seen in ancient Greek temples.

The tour will focus on the relationship between Thomson, Holmwood House and Glasgow, and give you an opportunity to learn about the legacy of his creative genius.

After the tour you will be invited to join NTS Curator Emma Inglis for a talk on historic interiors. The talk will explore two hundred years of wallpapers and major fashions and influences; from the exquisite Chinese papers of the 1720s to the mass produced patterns of the 1920s.

Emma Inglis is a curator for the National Trust for Scotland, and works with multi-disciplinary property teams to deliver interpretation projects, interior redecoration schemes, temporary exhibition programming and creative use of collections. She is involved in the research of collections and interiors, with a particular interest in domestic textiles, eighteenth and nineteenth century social history, and decorative interiors.

Booking essential

Refreshments included in the price

£18 per person, £14 concession

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Online Talk: A Bird’s-Eye View of the Development of Glasgow University: The Gilbert Scott Building

Posted May 19th 2022

Wednesday 22nd June 2022 | 7.30pm BST | via Zoom

Taking Thomas Sulman’s 1864 bird’s-eye view of Glasgow as a starting point, this talk will explore a pivotal period in the history of development of both the city and the University. As Sulman’s balloon drifted above the city, the University was already planning its flight from the congested and polluted High Street site to the then rural Arcadia of Gilmorehill.

Using contemporary 19th-century photographs, engravings and paintings, Nick Haynes will guide us around the extraordinary complex of 17th-, 18th- and 19th- century buildings in the Old College, and set the scene for the construction of Scotland’s largest Gothic building on Gilmorehill.

Nick Haynes is a historic environment consultant, author and amateur photographer, who has recently joined property consultancy Montagu Evans as their Heritage Partner for Scotland. In 2013 he wrote the book Building Knowledge – An Archtectural History of Glasgow University, following the story of the Old College buildings in the High Street, through Gilbert Scott’s great palace of learning on Gilmorehill, to the newer adjoining campus at Hillhead.

Free, booking required, donations welcome.

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Workshop: Stained Glass

Posted May 18th 2022

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Saturday 11th June 2022 | 10am-5pm | Jangling Space, Unit H, Shawlands Arcade, Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow G41 3RS

Join us for this this all-day workshop, where participants will get a chance to learn about the art of stained glass and get to grips with how to cut, lead, and solder their first piece. Everyone will get to design, create, and take home their own piece of stained glass art based on Jangling Spaces’s popular “Weir Pumps” design, inspired by an aerial view of the Weir Pumps of Cathcart.

The workshop will be facilitated by Jangling Space at their studio in the Shawlands Arcade. Jangling Space is a cooperative makerspace on the Southside of Glasgow focused on making glass art influenced by the city’s heritage.

The ticket price includes all materials and lunch.

Please note this is an in-person event and current Covid guidance will be complied with.

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