South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust

Synchronicity max as 2025 marks both the #ArtDecoCentenary & #Glasgow850 celebrations! 🎉🎉 Looking forward to much more of both in the year ahead as revealed in the places, stories & designs that've shaped our unique landscape 💚 #Glasgow #ArtDeco #DearGreenPlace #ArtDeco100 #ArtDecoSouthsideAlive ✨

The team have finished shutting down #CamphillDig2026 and we’ve reinstated the earthwork’s ramparts. One final cool find, a probable Bronze Age worked flint near the base of the 1.5m deep ditch. Nice! Thanks to everyone who helped on the dig & visited us. Season 2 anyone?

Went to lend a hand at #CamphillDig26 today. While the team have yet to determine if the site's residents were Iron Age, Roman or Mediaeval, we now at least know that they were regular users of Glasgow's tram network. Congrats to fellow #SGHET volunteer Dougie for finding it in our pit.

Two (very likely) Neolithic axe fragments from the #CamphillDig26 site found in the past 24 hours. Nothing like this has been found in Glasgow for well over a century!

I spent an interesting hour or so today at the open day at the Camphill Earthworks dig in Queen's Park on the southside of Glasgow. The open day is still on until 3pm if you want to check it out for yourself. #glasgow #archaeology #glasgowtocday #queenspark #glasgowwhistory

Out digging at the Camphill earthwork with @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social and Kieran Manchip @archscot.bsky.social and students and volunteers. This site has everything from prehistory and post-medieval farming to rich contemporary archaeology (campfires, arboglyphs, graffiti, and witchy rituals)!

Those who know Glasgow’s Queen’s Park & Camphill well may recognise this excavation target, an improvised fire pit in a circle of boulders. Amazingly in this area we’ve found a possible posthole, a cobbled surface and - something potentially Neolithic! #CamphillDig26

Exposing the clay rampart at Camphill enclosure. #CamphillDig26 #Glasgow #UrbanPrehistory?

📆 Camphill Archaeology Open Day Sat 29th Aug 11am-3pm ~ explore the excavations, learn about the area's history, family-friendly activities 🙌 📆 Other days: Excavations run 24th Aug-4th Sept drop by 10am-3pm any day (except Sun 30th) to discover what's going on at the site 👀 See you there💚 #Glasgow

Nothing prehistoric yet at #CamphillDig26 but here’s a Bakelite Glasgow tram token from at least 70 years ago. It was found in a test pit near where excavations last happened on the site 75 years ago. Was it dropped by a digger? 😉

Day 1 of #CamphillDig26. Our team of student trainees & volunteers made a cracking start deturfing the bank that surrounds Camphill enclosure in #Glasgow. The clay core of the bank is close to the surface thankfully. Tomorrow we’ll try to find the ditch edges. @archscot.bsky.social

📆 Camphill Archaeology Open Day Sat 29th Aug 11am-3pm ~ explore the excavations, learn about the area's history, family-friendly activities 🙌 📆 Other days: Excavations run 24th Aug-4th Sept drop by 10am-3pm any day (except Sun 30th) to discover what's going on at the site 👀 See you there💚 #Glasgow

Today is the launch of PAMphlet, a new arts magazine in Scotland. I wrote a piece documenting the arts and leisure closures in Glasgow in the first 6 months of 2026. pamphlet.scot/reflecting-o...

📆 Our next 6 events ~ including 3 for #Glasgow #DoorsOpenDays Festival ~ are fully-booked ... but we've activated waiting lists on all of them. 🔔 For instant alerts on future events follow us on Eventbrite 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas...

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Good News Friday: The historic Electric Cinema (1909) on Station Street in Birmingham has been officially added to the city’s Local Heritage List. The UK’s oldest working cinema before abruptly closing in Feb 2024, campaigners have opposed plans to demolish it for a 50 storey residential tower.

The #Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival also offers a vast range of other drop-in activities that don't require booking, from peeks into historic buildings to community exhibitions and more... check out their full Festival Programme here 👉 www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk 💚 bsky.app/profile/gbpt...

Directors Room, Glasgow School of Art. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1899. Photo: A. Varady. c.2005.

📆 Southside History Run ~ returns Sat 15th Aug 🏃 Pair running with local heritage exploration! Join our qualified jog leader for a gentle 5.5km around 4 areas surrounding Queen's Park #Glasgow with stories of people, past events & more shared at stops en route 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southside-...

📆 Unseen Historical Buildings of Tradeston ~ Sat 22nd Aug... discover the stories of the area's remarkable landmarks & consider their possible futures on the cusp of massive surrounding redevelopment in this once mighty industrial area of #Glasgow Tickets & info👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unseen-his...

Cessnock Underground, #Glasgow 1977. 🚇 (Duncan McPherson)

The Queen's Park Glasshouse is at a crossroads, and residents are fighting to keep it open. Your support can make a difference in this campaign. Every donation helps cover essential costs like posters and flyers. gofund.me/eaec17f61

Another #Strathbungo #househistory. This time we're at the former 25 Princes Square, better known now as 55 Marywood Square. The first resident was Robert Murdoch, a mason who built Cragie St police & fire station, and the next Robert More, a maker & retailer of fine silk gowns on Buchanan Street.

#Glasgow Cathcart walk now fully-booked but we've activated a waiting list... Follow us on Eventbrite for instant notification of future walks later this summer & beyond 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas...

Not Van Gogh but the wildflower meadow part of the Old Castle Road, Old Cathcart Gardens (0745 hrs 13/6/26 😁)

📆 Cathcart Heritage Trail ~ Sun 5th July... join us to explore the past & present heritage of the former village that became a stylish #Glasgow suburb. Discover mills & workers cottages, artists & architects, royalty & rebellion, a lost castle and more #Glasgow 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cathcart-h...

There's an incredible new tiled mural at Glasgow Central today, produced by Make It Glasgow. It recreates an advertising poster by Margaret & Frances Macdonald for Joseph Wright's Drooko Umbrella Co. #Glasgow

Thanks to everyone who joined me on the @sghetorg.bsky.social Magnificent 11 walk yesterday - great time and company and thankfully the rain stayed off !

📆 New event: Pollokshields History Run Sat 20 June ~ Join our qualified jog leader for a gentle 5.5km around Glasgow's garden suburb with history, architectural designs & past Pollokshields residents stories shared at stops en route [18+ only] #Glasgow Tickets ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pollokshie...

Came here to mention this upcoming walk, but it's sold out already!. Ah well, you just need to follow SGHET for the next one, at Doors Open Day in September. SGHET has other events too, including a running history tour of Pollokshields.

Yes indeed, the booking page for the Magnificent 11 half-day walking trail tomorrow is here (currently 2 tickets still available): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magnificen...

📆 New event: Pollokshields History Run Sat 20 June ~ Join our qualified jog leader for a gentle 5.5km around Glasgow's garden suburb with history, architectural designs & past Pollokshields residents stories shared at stops en route [18+ only] #Glasgow Tickets ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pollokshie...

📆 Strathbungo Heritage Tour ~ Sat 27th June... join us to explore the story of the old village of Strathbungo, now largely vanished with only traces remaining, before walking through the Victorian suburb to discover its bygone designers, builders & residents 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathbung...

Stonework detail: Scotland St School. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1906. Photo: Stuart Robertson.

📣 Magnificent 11 Heritage & Environment Walk 🌿🏦 📆 Sat 6th June 10am-2.30pm ~ free but booking required 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magnificen... 💚 Explore the Southside's manicured & wilder fringes on a half-day walk... history, heritage & nature galore with panoramic views of #Glasgow en route 🌳🪿🌺⛅ 👣

Superb news the site of First Hampden - the world's 1st pitch built w/ the intention to host international matches & where the modern game of passing football was pioneered - has gained listed status✨🎉 blog.historicenvironment.scot/2026/05/firs... Our blog on its history 👉 sghet.com/project/firs...

They shoot... They score! Good news for the first Hampden. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's great to hear that the site of the original Hampden Park, considered the world's first purpose-built international football stadium, has now been given protected status by Historic Environment Scotland. Cont./ #glasgow #football #glasgowhistory #queenspark #hampdenpark

Interior detail: Scotland Street School. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1906. Photo: Upton Large.

PLEASE SHARE: Free 8-week writers group at AGA/ @aowensarchive.bsky.social Glasgow. Starts 28 May, Thursdays 1–3pm at The Whisky Bond. For local people new to writing. Guest sessions with @heatherparry.bsky.social & @kirstininnes.bsky.social, facilitated by Saskia McCracken. 10 free spaces.

On this day in 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside. This colourised postcard, postmarked 1903, depicts the Langside Battlefield Memorial. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow #OTD

A house history for 21 Marywood Square, formerly known as 42 Princes Square. Built by James Robertson in 1884, though he then went bust. First occupant John Andersons was from a family of printers, although his uncle had jacked it in to go to sea, and became Captain of Brunel's SS Great Eastern.

For May only ... "Pollokshaws". A stunning Tenement Tiles Special Edition featuring a beautiful art nouveau harebell motif. Available framed or frameless. Order yours and see the whole range at duille.com/tt

Who wants a longish read about the colliery waggonways of Southside, illustrated with far too many maps? Nobody? Bah. You shall have one anyway. new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-govan-wa...

Just a handful of (free) tickets left for our talk next week. Join us to discover the story of Cathcart Castle 💚 bsky.app/profile/sghe...