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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 9d

🌳🏭🏠 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 · 13d

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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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 14d

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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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 19d

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

🎉 #Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival runs from today➡️ Sunday! ✨✨Our 4 #heritagewalks are fully-booked but drop-in venues are listed on the main Festival website. For future Southside #heritage events follow us on Eventbrite 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas... 💚 #Glasgow850 bsky.app/profile/sghe...

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New Glasgow Society @newglasgowsociety.bsky.social · 23d

You are cordially invited to the opening preview of the DOORS THAT REMAIN CLOSED OF exhibition this week. Come and find out more about the exhibition the NGS team pulled together for this year's Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival.

📆 Sept 17, Wednesday
⏰ 7pm
📍 1307 Argyle St, G3 8TL

See you there 👋🏽

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Jun 29

#AviationHistory 🚁 Few know of the link between Cathcart in #Glasgow's south side & the origins of helicopters ~ discover how local innovation, engineering & a passion for flight backed the development of the #autogiro... (aka #autogyros)💡🎉 #industrialheritage #Glasgow850 👉 sghet.com/project/glas...

Photo of the Cierva C9 autogiro in 1928, built in 1927 with funding from J.G. Weir of Cathcart, Glasgow. Image source: Wikimedia Commons

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Jul 8

🎧 Southside Chronicles Ep 7 ~ Linn Park 👉 glad.radio/sside-chron-... Cameron Winton walks us through its #industrialheritage Snuff Mill Bridge, Millholm, limestone quarries & coal mines, methane-bubbling water wells & clamp kilns. 350m yrs of history & geology underpinning early industry #Glasgow850

Two photo graphs of Linn Park, Glasgow, one showing its waterfall and the other showing remaining evidence of early industrial activity in the park now largely overgrown with vegetation.

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The Castle Studies Trust @castlestudies.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just back from the amazing Friends @crookston.bsky.social Castle fun day at the castle As you can see the crowds were amazing, queuing to get in with nearly 1000 people attending, twice the expected number. Part of 3 days of community engagement, including the geophysical survey of the castle

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Crookston Castle @crookston.bsky.social · Aug 29

Day one of geophysics at Crookston Castle ✅

Local pupils joined archaeologists to scan the grounds and search for hidden stories beneath Glasgow’s last Castle.

Even the Lord Provost lent a hand and is keen to see what secrets we uncover next! #Glasgow850 #EchoesFromTheEarth

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · Aug 27

The area was once home to a thriving community, just a stone's throw from the industrial thrum of General Terminus Quay. Everything in these photos, including the Pollok St UP Church, was cleared to make way for the southern approaches to the Kingston Bridge.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · Aug 27

An early 20th century postcard view of Pollok St, with its central gardens, which ran from Scotland St to Paisley Rd, just in front of Kingston Halls.

📷 Urban Glasgow, Glasgow City Archives

#Glasgow

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Aug 28

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TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social · May 16

#Glasgow

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

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Tenement entrance hall. The floor is terrazzo (red/white/grey materials). The walls to the side are tiled shoulder height, with plain subway tiles meeting a navy/ teal shaded floral tile and border tile at the top. In the distance you can see the start of a curved staircase, with the floor and wall design following up out of view.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · Aug 23

Well done and thank you to the intrepid Mag11’ers on today’s @sghetorg.bsky.social walk - the weather was kind and the journey great fun. You’ve now done more than 10% of the Glasgow Way 👍

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

#ArtDecoCentenary Before the 1938 Empire Exhibition there were the Wembley Empire Exhibitions of 1924/1925. In both London & #Glasgow's mega events "new design ideas rubbed shoulders with stereotyped depictions of global cultures" #ArtDeco #ArtDeco100 #ArtDecoSouthsideAlive📹 bsky.app/profile/artd...

Art Deco Society UK @artdecosocuk.bsky.social · Jun 25

In case you missed it, you can now watch the recording of one of our past talks on The Wonders of Wembley: Innovation at the Empire Exhibitions You can find it on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTsL...

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here's a thread about the wonderful but underappreciated concentration of modernist architectural gems in Faro and the Eastern Algarve. Photos taken last summer #ModernistFaro 🇵🇹🧵

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our next walk & all 4 of our #DoorsOpenDays walks are now fully-booked... if you fancy coming on future ones best move is to follow us on *Eventbrite* for immediate email notification when bookings open👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas...

Social media is so sketchy tbh 😁
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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣 Magnificent 11 Heritage & Environment Walk 🌿🏦
📆 Sat 23rd Aug 10am-2.30pm ~ book here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magnificen...
Explore the Southside's manicured & wilder fringes on our guided trail... history, heritage & nature galore with panoramic views of #Glasgow en route 🌳🪿🌺 👣 ⛅

A photo of the Ha'penny Bridge, Linn Park, on the southern fringes of Glasgow, built circa 1835. A cast-iron arched structure over the River Cart, with four identical ribs, each apparently a one-piece casting, and simple wrought-iron railings. It is the oldest surviving complete iron bridge in the greater city of Glasgow area.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · Aug 9

The first municipal baths to offer sun-ray treatment were Pollokshaws, in 1930; within a couple of years Shettleston and Whiteinch had followed suit.

In that first year there were just over ten thousand visits to the Pollokshaws sun-ray bath, at 1/6 a time.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · Aug 9

It's pishing it down outside, so here's an image of some people enjoying authentic Glasgow indoor sunshine in 1933.

It's an agency photo and I've not tracked down the location, but there was a strong fad for "sun-ray baths" at the time.

Four women wearing 1930s bathing costume and dark goggles sit facing a bright lamp; another woman stands with her back to it.

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Whatever suits you 😊 By the way we can't access DMs as don't trust uploading ID info to a 3rd party site, so if you need to get in touch our main email is here sghet.com/contact/

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Someone left halfway the 1st time we ran it too as they'd not realised the distance... as long as you're able to get back to transport links / car no worries, but if not feel free to return your ticket. We could swap it for one of our DoD walks (fully booked but can arrange) bsky.app/profile/sghe...

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

📣 Unseen Historical Buildings of Tradeston #Glasgow
📆 Sat 20th Sept at 11am ~ book here 👉
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unseen-his... our new guided walking tour for
#GDODF #Glasgow850 #GlasgowDoorsOpenDays Festival ~ #heritagetrail tickets now released! ✨️

Flyer for Unseen Historical Buildings of Tradeston walking tour showing a large, ornate former industrial building in the area which is one of many that attendees of the event will find out more about on Saturday 20th September!

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣 Magnificent 11 Heritage & Environment Walk 🌿🏦
📆 Sat 23rd Aug 10am-2.30pm ~ book here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magnificen...
Explore the Southside's manicured & wilder fringes on our guided trail... history, heritage & nature galore with panoramic views of #Glasgow en route 🌳🪿🌺 👣 ⛅

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 22

Large murals from auditorium of the lost Rutherglen Repertory Theatre. One by Irene Bruges on life in the theatre and the other by Thomas H. Sharks showing the historic industrial and cultural story of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen. Both c1948.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · Aug 8

Join the next @sghetorg.bsky.social Magnificent 11 Walk 🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️ on Saturday 23rd August at 1000 hrs its free & it counts towards almost 10% of the New Glasgow Way walk 😉😀 … www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magnificen...

Magnificent 11 Heritage & Environment Walk

Join our guided tour of the Magnificent 11 trail to discover hidden corners of our great city's southern fringes and its natural habitats.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 5

Some of the designs by Ernest Archibald Taylor (1874–1951 illustrated in The Studio magazine, 1910.
Glasgow Art Nouveau.

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