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Glasgow City Heritage Trust

@glasgowheritage.bsky.social
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We give out almost £1million in funding each year to help people in Glasgow protect, repair and promote the city's historic buildings and places.

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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
📣 Upcoming CPD: RIAS Conservation Accreditation Aimed at architects interested in conservation, this session will provide insights into the accreditation process, how theory underpins design and how accreditation can enhance professional development. 📆 Thurs. 5th Feb. | 1pm 🎟️ buff.ly/HVwbPnA
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
If you have a new year’s resolution to gain skills or build your career, our Training Grants could be for you! Funding traditional skills opportunities or professional development, grants are available to anyone who works or studies in Scotland’s heritage sector. Find out more: buff.ly/9V4BpbL
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Fancy trying something new this year? Get hands-on with Mobile Print Studio in two printmaking workshops at Many Studios! 🖋 Drypoint Etching | 7 Feb | 11am-4pm 🌲 Woodcut Printing | 21 March | 11am-4pm £55 each or join us for both for £88 🎨 Book here 👉 buff.ly/l2Iqpdg
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Workshop: Drypoint Etching with Mobile Print Studio – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Join us for a hands-on workshop with Mobile Print Studio where you'll learn the art of drypoint etching.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our Annual Report 2024-25 is here! 📢 We grant funded 18 heritage projects across the city, totalling £645,456. 💷 Our grants supported total project costs of £3.7million, so for every £1 we committed, over £4.70 was invested by others. Read the full report on our website: buff.ly/niOjFhB
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🦺 Upcoming CPD! ⚒️ This CPD offers a training opportunity for built environment professionals to view the repair works currently underway at a Category B-listed tenement struggling with significant water ingress. 📆 12pm | Thurs. 22nd January 🎟️ To book: buff.ly/jt5HMvf
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
✨ Happy New Year from Glasgow City Heritage Trust As we step into the year ahead, we’re looking forward to sharing more stories, opening up new conversations, and continuing to care for the buildings and places that make Glasgow what it is. Thank you for being part of our community.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
🎄 Merry Christmas from all of us at Glasgow City Heritage Trust Thank you for supporting our work this year — for coming to events, exploring Glasgow’s stories, sharing your curiosity, and caring about the city’s buildings and places.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🧱 “Ugliest buildings in Scotland?” A new Herald article featuring illustrator Natalie Tweedie reopens the debate around brutalist architecture — bold, controversial, and deeply woven into Glasgow’s story. Natalie also illustrated our Brutal Glasgow exhibition - still open online buff.ly/gvg0j8c
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Glasgow City Heritage Trust! 🎄 Our office will be closed from Mon 22 Dec and will re-open on Mon 5 Jan, ready to kick off 2026! Thanks for all your support this year; here’s to another year celebrating Glasgow’s amazing heritage! 🏛️✨
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Treat someone (or yourself) to a creative day at Many Studios with our print workshops! 🖋 Drypoint Etching Workshop– 7 Feb 26 🌲 Woodcut Workshop– 21 Mar 26 Beginner-friendly, beautifully traditional & seriously satisfying. £55 each or both for £88. More info & booking 👉https://buff.ly/Cp5YaIV
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Upcoming Events – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Help fund conservation, events and education in Glasgow
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A great write-up of a recent talk where our Director Niall Murphy explored the futures of Sauchiehall Street and Princes Street. Why these streets matter, what went wrong, & how cities can rebuild with heritage and people at the centre. Read more 👇
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A tale of two streets - regenerating Princes Street and Sauchiehall Street
The condition of Scotland’s high streets has become a topic of intense debate in recent weeks. The decline of Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street recently drew a scathing attack from journalist and broadcaster,...
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Wrap up a piece of Glasgow this Christmas with our selection of prints & books! Plus, your gift gives back as every purchase goes towards supporting us to protect & promote Glasgow's historic built environment 🎁 Place your order by Thurs 18 December for Christmas delivery: buff.ly/GeHkimX ✨
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Looking for a unique gift for a crafty friend? Book them a spot in our printing workshops with @mobileprintstudio! Learn drypoint etching in Feb 2026 and woodcut printmaking in Mar 2026. Get hands-on with traditional techniques, guided by experts, perfect for all skill levels! 🎨 buff.ly/m5cqQmN
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Upcoming Events – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Help fund conservation, events and education in Glasgow
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🎄 December’s here - time to find the perfect gift! Shop local and celebrate Glasgow’s history with unique gifts from Glasgow City Heritage Trust 🎁 Every purchase helps support our work to protect and promote the city’s historic buildings and places, so your gift gives back too ✨
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Shop – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Help fund conservation, events and education in Glasgow
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
⚒️ Looking after a tenement brings unique challenges, but our upcoming online event, in partnership with Under One Roof, will explore practical solutions and expert guidance to help make tenement management simpler, smoother and less stressful! 📆 Tues. 18 Nov. | 12-1pm 📍 Via Zoom buff.ly/zPdPF3u
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🆘 Own a flat in a tenement? 
👉 Wondering how to handle repairs, deal with damp, or work with your neighbours on maintenance? Join GCHT and Under One Roof for a free, practical session designed for anyone caring for a historic tenement. 📆 Tues. 18 Nov. | 12- 1pm To Book:
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Taking Care of Your Tenement: Online Event – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Join GCHT and Under One Roof for an online session all about tenement maintenance
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🚨 Don’t forget- our Taking Care of Your Tenement drop-in session is tomorrow night, Thurs. 6th November! 🏘️ Come by between 6 and 8pm to chat with the GCHT and Under One Roof Scotland teams. 📍 The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ 🔗 Find out more:
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Taking Care of Your Tenement: Drop-In Session – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Join GCHT and Under One Roof for a drop-in session aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about maintaining and repairing historic tenements!
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Join GCHT and Under One Roof for a free and informative event aimed at owner-occupiers, landlords or anyone who wants to learn more about maintaining and managing their historic tenement flats. 📆 Tuesday 18th November | 12-1:00pm 📍 Via Zoom 🎟️ Free! Booking essential:
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Taking Care of Your Tenement: Online Event – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Join GCHT and Under One Roof for an online session all about tenement maintenance
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
💸 It’s payday and Friday- the perfect time to treat yourself! Spend an afternoon getting creative and learning the art of traditional sign writing with the brilliant Bungo Sign Co. 🎨 Saturday 15 November | 1pm – 5pm 📍 Many Studios 💷 £75 Spaces limited, book now 👉 buff.ly/MVia2Ow buff.ly/MVia2Ow
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🧱 In our latest blog, Training Grant recipient Michael Goodger reflects on his learning experience and the importance of gaining hands-on training with traditional skills ⚒️ Read Michael’s blog and find out more about our Training Grants 👉 buff.ly/tq9OnZb
Photo of someone measuring on a work bench and text which reads "The Training Grant from Glasgow City Heritage Trust has certainly helped me to fill some of gaps in my knowledge and given me the confidence to make the shift towards being a full-time heritage craftsperson"
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🆘 Got questions about taking care of your tenement? We've got answers! Join GCHT and Under One Roof at our next drop-in session where you can ask our experts for advice. 📆 Thursday, 6th November 6 - 8pm 📍 The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, G41 2PZ More info:
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Taking Care of Your Tenement: Drop-In Session – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Join GCHT and Under One Roof for a drop-in session aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about maintaining and repairing historic tenements!
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Many of Mexico City’s Art Deco & Art Nouveau buildings are at risk: abandoned, quake-damaged or redeveloped. [un]Faithful Reinstatement explores how adaptive reuse is saving them and asks: could Glasgow do the same? Book a free spot for the exhibition opening panel discussion 👉 buff.ly/0EXcLWd
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
✨ During #HeritageCareersWeek we’re proud to support training that helps build a sustainable heritage workforce in Scotland! Our Training Grants can help you develop your professional skills and are open to anyone 18+. To find out more and apply:
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GCHT’s Training Grants – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
GCHT's Training Grant programme is open for applications
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Try your hand at traditional signwriting with the talented team from Southside's Bungo Sign Co & Rachel from brush maker A.S Handover. Enjoy an afternoon of creativity, craft and a bit of paint under your fingernails! 📆 Sat 15 Nov | 1pm - 5pm 📍 Many Studios 🎟️ £75 buff.ly/AXNJU31
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Workshop: Sign Writing with Bungo Sign Co. – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Join us for a hands-on sign writing workshop with Bungo Sign Co.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
📣 Taking Care of Your Tenement: Drop-In Session ⚒️ Join GCHT and Under One Roof for a drop-in session aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about maintaining and repairing historic tenements!  📆 Thursday, 6th Nov. | 6pm - 8pm 📍The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, G41 2PZ buff.ly/hv4OWqW
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Taking Care of Your Tenement: Drop-In Session – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Join GCHT and Under One Roof for a drop-in session aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about maintaining and repairing historic tenements!
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Step back in time to the 19th-century! Join our hands-on camera obscure workshop & learn how it led to modern photography, then build your own box camera obscura and explore the city through its unique view. 📆 Sat 8 Nov | 10:30-15:00 📍 GCHT, 54 Bell Street 🎟️ £35 buff.ly/u254hEm
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Workshop: Create Your Own Camera Obscura – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
Be inspired and make your own take-away camera obscura!
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
✨ Friday feeling! Some great news to share... We’re delighted to announce that, as of 1st October, we are an accredited Living Wage Scotland Employer. A huge thank you to the Living Wage Foundation for welcoming us into the fold- we’re proud to join the movement! #LivingWage #LivingWageEmployer
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Our latest newsletter The Insider just dropped! 📬 Fun heritage picks, behind-the-scenes at GCHT & more. Sign up now and we’ll send it your way too: buff.ly/DR6A7eo
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Did you know the world's oldest surviving music hall is right here in Glasgow? It showcased everything from entertainers to animals! Curious for more? Join Judith Bowers, founder of the Friends of Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Trust, on a talk & tour of the building on 9 Oct! buff.ly/HbXTU1V
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Britannia Panopticon Building Tour & Talk – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
A visit to the World’s oldest surviving music hall where Stan Laurel made his stage debut in 1906.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📣 Lens on Legacy: A Tour of Glasgow's Building's At Risk 🥾 Join GCHT Director Niall Murphy on a walking tour through the city centre, uncovering the forgotten tales and urgent challenges facing some of Glasgow’s most iconic but at-risk landmarks. 📆 Thurs. 2 Oct. | 5:30pm 🎟️ buff.ly/53FWlXD
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
📸 One of the places you can visit for this year's Glasgow Doors Open Days is Queens Park Camera Club, who will also be hosting our Lens on Legacy exhibition! ⏰ The Club will be open from 10am-4pm, Saturday & Sunday. 🔗 More information: buff.ly/lFoV9CL 🗝️ Glasgow Dors Open Days: buff.ly/0MIG0F0
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Discover Glasgow’s oldest surviving music hall on this tour & talk of Britannia Panopticon, exploring hidden stories, forgotten corners & 186 years of history. 📆 Thurs 9 Oct | 6:30 - 7:30pm 📍 Britannia Panopticon, 113-117 Trongate 🎟️ Booking essential, £10 More info 👉 buff.ly/HbXTU1V
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Britannia Panopticon Building Tour & Talk – Glasgow City Heritage Trust
A visit to the World’s oldest surviving music hall where Stan Laurel made his stage debut in 1906.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📣 Lens On Legacy: A Tour Of Glasgow's Buildings At Risk 🥾 Join GCHT’s Director Niall Murphy for a walk around Glasgow City Centre, looking at some of the city’s most iconic, but at-risk, buildings. ☔ Please dress for the weather! 📆 Thursday 2nd October | 5:30pm 🎟️ £18 | buff.ly/T6a0P44
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We may not have taken home a win at this year's Inspiring City Awards, but we were thrilled to see our pals The Empire Café honoured with the Heritage Champion Award for the 'Who Owns the Clyde?' podcast. 📖 Read more about the event: buff.ly/VFaWhGS #InspiringCityAwards2025 #Glasgow850
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🤞 Fingers crossed for the Inspiring City Awards, which take place later today! We're a finalist in the Heritage Champion category, alongside: - Glasgow Building Preservation Trust - Wasps Studios - Stratum Masonry - Empire Cafe/ Who owns the Clyde ☘️ Best of luck everyone!
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
✨ New look, same mission. GCHT has rebranded – bold, people-focused, rooted in Glasgow’s past and future. Explore: glasgowheritage.org.uk
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨 Friday 5th Sept. is the last day of our #LensOnLegacy exhibition! 📸 The exhibition continues the city’s long & rich tradition of urban photography, shining a spotlight on at-risk buildings across Glasgow. 📆 We're open Wed. to Fri. from 10am-4pm in our office at 54 Bell St. buff.ly/QhjL1gt
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Lansdowne Church in Glasgow’s West End – now Websters – is full of history, memory and craft: stained glass by Alf Webster, a WWI plaster frieze by Evelyn Beale, and generations of memory. New funding from us and @HeritageFundUK is ensuring these treasures are preserved. 📖
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Memory Encapsulated in a Building: Lansdowne Church, Alf Webster, and Memorialisation
Memory can be a complex and complicated thing. As time progresses, memories can fade, alter, or transform into entirely false versions of events. Furthermore, how each individual remembers an event…
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🏛️ Building Spotlight! 👀 As part of our #LensOnLegacy exhibition, we’re highlighting some of the buildings featured in the exhibition - this week we’re taking a closer look at the iconic Met Tower.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
📢 Job alert! We’re hiring a Built Heritage Officer (Mat Cover) to help deliver our conservation grants and support Glasgow’s historic buildings. 🗓️ Apply by 1 Sept 💰 £33–34k | 📍 Glasgow/Hybrid 🔗 buff.ly/AENSqth
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🎉 Our new website is live! Explore Glasgow’s built heritage, book events, and dive into exclusive content in the new Heritage Hub. Built by Lex Lamb, designed to connect you with the stories behind the city. 👉 glasgowheritage.org.uk
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
⚒️ Our next CPD will look at dealing with ongoing building maintenance failures in a professional context. 🏛️ Focusing on recent repairs at 151 Wilton Street, we'll discuss the works and best practice for maintaining historic properties. 📆 Thurs. 28 Aug | 1pm | In-person & online 🎟️ buff.ly/ZaygoDc
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We’re excited to announce that we've been named a finalist in the Heritage Champion category at the Inspiring City Awards 2025! 🎉 Back for the first time since 2019 as part of Glasgow’s 850th anniversary, the awards spotlight the exceptional legacy & innovative spirit that defines our city.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
⚒️ In our upcoming CPD, conservation accredited surveyor Rob Adams will share lessons from repair works at 151 Wilton Street, discussing common failures and maintenance must-dos. 📆 Thurs. 28th August | 1:00 - 2:00pm | In-person at our Bell Street office or via Zoom 🎟️ buff.ly/ZaygoDc
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📣 Upcoming CPD: Repairs to a Converted Townhouse 📆 Thurs. 28 Aug | 1pm | In-person & online 🧱 In this CPD attendees will get to learn about recent repair and maintenance works to 151 Wilton Street, a former Victorian townhouse which has been converted into tenement flats. 🎟️ buff.ly/ZaygoDc
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! Join GCHT as a Built Heritage Officer (Mat Cover) to help conserve Glasgow’s historic buildings. 📍 Glasgow/Hybrid 💰 £33–34k 📅 Fixed-term (9–12 months) 🗓️ Apply by 1 Sept 🔗 buff.ly/AENSqth
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🕵️ Spotted in the wild! We found our Knight Map postcards tucked away in a local charity shop this week 👀…but you don’t have to go thrifting to get your hands on them! 📮 Grab yours directly from our online shop → buff.ly/Sqbzazk
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🚨 Due to popular demand master tailor Alis Le May is back with her walking tour & bespoke tailoring workshop, which unpicks the layers of Glasgow's sartorial heritage. 🗓️ Sat 6 Sept | 10am - 3pm 📍 GCHT, 54 Bell Street 🎟️ £60, booking essential: buff.ly/yKX2l8u
Alis and her apprentice Abby on the walking tour. They are outside a building that is now a cigar shop holding some old photographs up of what it used to look like. A close up of the jetted pocket that participants on the last workshop sewed. Photograph from the previous workshop that Alis ran. It is of a group of people working on their sewing their buttonhole.
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
📣 GCHT's Training Grants are open for applications! ⚒️ Designed to support traditional skills training and professional development, grants range from £100 to £750 and are open to anyone 18+, working or studying in Scotland's built environment. 👉 Interested in finding out more? buff.ly/D52u6CT
An infographic with a green background, with text saying "Applications for our Training Grants are now open!" and "To find out more and apply: glasgowheritage.org.uk/training-grants" with a drawing of a hand with a hammer and the GCHT logo
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
📸 Our Lens on Legacy exhibition is going on tour! You can see it during Doors Open Days weekend, 20-21 Sept., at Queen's Park Camera Club in Southside. Their members will be on hand to answer any questions you have about the exhibition, photography & the club itself More info 👉 buff.ly/hSNv3c8
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