Doors Open Day Glasgow 2011
Glasgow's Built Festival Heritage
Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September 2011.
There will also be associated events taking place from Monday 12th September. There will be more than a hundred buildings opening their doors and many new participants included in this year's festival. Entry to all buildings is free.
There is something for everyone in all parts of the city including: the new Scottish Conservatoire (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama), guided tours of Hampden Park, Govan's Pearce Institute, Glasgow School of Art, Tennent's Wellpark Brewery and City Allotments and much more....
(photograph from http://www.pearceinstitute.org.uk/)
There will be a Subway Tour and new walks including 'Jacobite Glasgow' and 'Kinning Park'. You can find out about many aspects of Glasgow's heritage at talks by Stephen Mullen and Neil Baxter.
Full programme and also available from libraries throughout the Glasgow. .
There will be an online booking system for Heritage Walks and some venues will require advance booking.
Arlington Baths
The club is open from 10 - 4 on Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th of September. There will be guided tours of the building including behind the scenes look at how a 140 year old Baths Club actually runs plus a Free history fact sheet for all visitors.
Lots of new buildings and events added this year:
- Alexander Glasgow Thomson - GCHT hosts an Evening Lecture
- The Central Govan Action Plan, Past Present and Future
- The Changing Face of Glasgow City Centre
- City Centre Cinemas - Past, Present and Future
- City Halls and Old Fruitmarket
- City of Glasgow College, City Campus
- Dennistoun with Peter Douglas
- Gartnavel Royal Hospital Chapel an Arts and Craft building?
- Glasgow Art Club and Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Glasgow City Mission
- Glasgow Matters at the School of Art
- Glasgows School Board Heritage
- Govan Old Personalities- priests, ministers and people
- Govan Revisited
- Govan's Archaeology and History
- Govan's Maritime Heritage
- Hampden Park
- Jacobite Glasgow
- Kennyhill Community Allotments
- Kinning Park
- Knightswood St. Margarets Parish Church
- The Lion Chambers - Its condition and a potential sustainable restoration
- TRAM Direct present - Magic of the Marlborough
- New Victoria Gardens
- Our Lady and St Francis Secondary School (former) now The Wise Group HQ
- Pollokshields 160th Anniversary Bus Tour
- Red Road Community Flat
- Riverside Museum
- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD)
- Searching for the Picturesque in Maryhill
- Shettleston Community Growing project
- Shettleston Housing Association
- St. Andrew's Cathedral
- St. Peter's R.C. Church
- St. Simon's Church
- The Story of Glasgow in Four Chapters
- Subcrawl with Dress for the Weather
- Taster Bridge Lesson
- Wellpark Brewery - Tennent Caledonian
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