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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 19d

Our Unseen Historical Buildings Of Tradeston tour @ #GlasgowDoorsOpensDays Festival on Sat explored the stories of its many municipal, commercial & #industrialheritage landmarks... & their fragile condition today [📷: SGHET & @govanhillgo.bsky.social ] #GDODF25 💚 #Glasgow850 bsky.app/profile/sghe...

Some of our Glasgow Doors Open Days tour group on a street in Tradeston amid its heritage buildings which were built for a range of industrial, commercial and municipal purposes.

Part of the Category-B listed Leyland Motor Co Ltd building, covered in graffiti, in Port Glasgow which borders on Tradeston.

Our Glasgow Doors Open Days tour group walking beneath a railway underpass in Tradeston.

The derelict former Glasgow Telephone Exchange on Centre Street in Tradeston, built by Glasgow Office of Public Works and completed circa 1935. The damaging Buddleia / Buddleja Davidii plant species is seen growing on the building in several places and more of this invasive plant is covering the other sides of the structure out of sight here.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 21d

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com

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Falsifying Heritage: The Denial and Disavowal of Glasgow’s Links with Atlantic Slavery

By Stephen Mullen In a recent article in The Times, (‘Scottish Taxpayers should not have to pay the price for Slavery, 7 June 2025), Professor Nigel Biggar misrepresented an exhibition in Glasgow’s…

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 20d

Our new Strathbungo Heritage Walking Tour #GlasgowDoorsOpensDays Festival on Fri & Sat ~ covered inventor of waxed cotton, the cradle of modern shinty, 1920s garages, origin of #Glasgow blonde sandstone, why James Bond had his Walther PPK pistol & more #GDODF25 💚 #Glasgow850
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Photo of Salisbury Quadrant with people looking over at it from our Strathbungo Heritage Walking Tour on Friday 19th September for Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2025. The walk was led by SGHET board member and Bygone Bungo blog author Andrew Downie.

Photo of 1 Moray Place designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, in which he also lived, with people looking over at it on our inaugural Strathbungo Heritage Walking Tour on Friday 19th September (repeated on Sat 20th September) for Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2025. The walks were led by SGHET board member and Bygone Bungo blog author Andrew Downie.

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TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social · 14d

#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #Bannister

Bsky post: 01/10/25

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 1d

We're in furious agreement 🥰✨ bsky.app/profile/sghe...

South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Apr 27

Also seen on Mid Century Modern exhibition bookshelves 📚
~ Interwar British Architecture 1919-1939 by Gavin Stamp; read this gem in March profilebooks.com/work/interwar/ @profilebooks.bsky.social
~ Mid Century Britain by Elain Harwood shop.c20society.org.uk/products/cop... @c20society.bsky.social

Photo of three books on the exhibition bookshelves: Interwar British Architecture 1919-1939 by Gavin Stamp, and Mid Century Britain: Modern Architecture 1938 - 1963 by Elain Harwood, and the Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon.

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 1d

Fab photos & archive sketches in that post, kudos! Bentley Wood is also the final building in Gavin Stamp's Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 ~ he called Chermayeff's home "an important step in the naturalisation and sophistication of the Modern Movement in Britain". @profilebooks.bsky.social

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton was a legend ~ not only of film ... but also of historic building preservation, serving on the board of the Los Angeles Conservancy, as a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation & more... Great info in the linked blog below 🙌. RIP 💚 bsky.app/profile/save...

Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy @savewrightflwbc.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservancy was saddened to learn of the death of actress Diane Keaton. Deeply committed to historic preservation, she played a significant role in our efforts to rescue the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Ennis House in 2005. savewright.org/remembering-...

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Duille @duille.com · 13d

Stunning in South Glasgow.

October's brand new Special Edition from the Tenement Tiles archive is beautifully autumnal.

Order yours and see the whole range at duille.com/tt

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Tony McK @oakroyd.bsky.social · 5d

#Shoap - The Doune Castle, Kilmarnock Rd, #Glasgow 1970.
(Colin Duncan)

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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 6d

Our Dr Iain Robertson & Dr @juliettedesportes.bsky.social are both delivering papers at Scottish Local History Forum's conference, ‘Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context’, in Paisley on Saturday 25 October! To view the full programme and to book your place, visit bit.ly/4fxbKp5

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Duille @duille.com · 10d

Western entranceway, Glasgow School of Art. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1909.
Photo: R. G. Wilson. 1981.

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Tony McK @oakroyd.bsky.social · 8d

Shawlands Arcade/Shopping Centre at the rear of the hotel, #Glasgow 1971. (Colin Duncan)

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The Urban Historian- Stephen Clancy @theurbanhistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Our local history cafe for aoctober will be looking at 'Views in Renfrewshire' which will explore the early 19th century. We will make use of a book by Philip Ramsey that includes line engravings by W H Lizar.

Book here theurbanhistorian.co.uk/product/hist...

History Cafe – 18th October 2025 – The Urban Historian

Our History Cafe for October will look at views in Renfrewshire, stimulating discussion on the mansions of the county and other places .

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Tony McK @oakroyd.bsky.social · 14d

Cumberland Street from the railway bridge, #Glasgow 1966. The Granite City #shoap, now The Brazen Head, on the right at Cathcart Road. (Colin Duncan)

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Inverclyde History from Cartsburn Publishing @inverclydehistory.bsky.social · 15d

#OTD #LocalHistory #Inverclyde #Greenock

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 5d

🎯 Nearly there...

Please help us raise the remaining funds for Govan Old and the Viking-Age Govan Stones!

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Tony McK @oakroyd.bsky.social · 17d

Govan Road at Water Row, #Glasgow, 1950s.
(Govan Reminiscence Group)

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Glasgow Coat of Arms @glasgowcoa.bsky.social · Sep 4

I've seen this window whilst inside the hall, but today I finally noticed the stained glass #Glasgow coat of arms from *outside* at #Pollokshields Burgh Hall 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Photo of large arched stained glass window set in a red sandstone building facade

Close-up of coat of arms bit of the window

Photo of two-storey red sandstone gable with the arched window above a smaller plain rectangular winsow

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 19d

Lantern on the gates to James Dempster's Old Cathcart Parish Church looking sadly awry. Managed to locate the original design in the wonderful HES reproduction of Walter MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry catalogue. #old #cathcart #parish #saracen #foundry

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 5d

Spotted that a few years back while doing a reccie for our Cathcart Heritage Trail walk but the sun at the back made getting a photo that properly showed the inscription impossible. A MacFarlane map of the Southside would be well furnished with examples.

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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 22d

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his eighth appearance in Paisley at the Secession Church on George Street. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 23 September 1846

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 15d

🌳🏭🏠 Linn Park #IndustrialHeritage Walking Tour ~ our 3rd event for #Glasgow #DoorsOpenDays Festival explored its 18th & 19th Century industries...much rewilded w/ only enigmatic remains but several landmark buildings still in use💚 #Glasgow850 For future events👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas... 📷

Photo of Lindsay House seen from Snuff Mill Bridge in Cathcart, south Glasgow, and some of our walk attendees, on our Linn Park Industrial Heritage Walking Tour held on Sunday 21st September 2025.

Photo of Linn Park Waterfall on the White Cart Water river, and some of our walk attendees looking over at it, on our Linn Park Industrial Heritage Walking Tour held on Sunday 21st September 2025.

Photo of our heritage trail leader and some of our walk attendees standing next to overgrown industrial remains which are very hard to spot if you don't know exactly where they are, on our Linn Park Industrial Heritage Walking Tour held on Sunday 21st September 2025.

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 19d

Our Unseen Historical Buildings Of Tradeston tour @ #GlasgowDoorsOpensDays Festival on Sat explored the stories of its many municipal, commercial & #industrialheritage landmarks... & their fragile condition today [📷: SGHET & @govanhillgo.bsky.social ] #GDODF25 💚 #Glasgow850 bsky.app/profile/sghe...

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 20d

Our new Strathbungo Heritage Walking Tour #GlasgowDoorsOpensDays Festival on Fri & Sat ~ covered inventor of waxed cotton, the cradle of modern shinty, 1920s garages, origin of #Glasgow blonde sandstone, why James Bond had his Walther PPK pistol & more #GDODF25 💚 #Glasgow850
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 25d

Did my first ever #Strathbungo walking tour for Glasgow Doors Open Day in conjunction with @sghetorg.bsky.social and The Strathbungo Society. Tours are fully subscribed but it was good fun and I might do it again sometime. Watch this space.

#GDODF25 #gdodf #glasgowheritage

Me pontificating nonsense to the tour participants in Regent Park Square

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