Trust moves to new Headquarters.

Glasgow City Heritage Trust have moved...but only next door! After a spell sharing offices with the Merchant City Initiative, the Trust recently said goodbye and relocated to their own new premises at 54 Bell St. As well as a permanent office for the Trust’s team, the new space includes a lecture room and an exhibition space. A schedule of events, workshops, talks and exhibitions relating to conservation, heritage, architecture, regeneration and the City of Glasgow are planned, kicking off in September 2008 during Glasgow’s Built Heritage Festival. The new premises is fully accessible and open for business; if you’re passing please stop by to say hello.

 54 Bell St before works began...                      during works....                                   ...and now!             

Glasgow City Heritage Trust officially launched

    Key figures from the world of Scottish architectural heritage and conservation converged in the illustrious surroundings of Glasgow’s CCA recently, for the official launch of the Glasgow City Heritage Trust. Esteemed Scottish broadcaster Kirsty Wark was on hand to formally launch the Trust, accompanied by Chairman Bailie Hanzala Malik and Director of Development and Regeneration Services for Glasgow City Council, Steve Inch. All speakers expressed a passion for the architectural heritage of Glasgow and illustrated the importance of and necessity for the new city-wide Trust, in its work conserving, restoring and celebrating the unique historic environment of the City.
     The Trust were thrilled to receive special messages of congratulations and support for their launch from across the globe, including from representatives in Pakistan, Nova Scotia, Germany, China and Israel.

The Trust were delighted to welcome Kirsty Wark to officially launch the new Trust.

Bailie Hanzala Malik, Chairman of the Trust, addresses the audience.

Heritage is Looking Up in Glasgow!

Glasgow City Heritage Trust has launched a new photography project for local schools, Looking Up, focusing on Glasgow’s ‘hidden’ architecture. The purpose of the competition is to record details of Glasgow’s historic built environment that are often missed at street level and only seen when looking up!

The first group to take part in the competition were S3 art students from Hyndland Secondary School. The rain and dull skies did not deter these budding Ansel Adams’ and they were able to take many impressive shots throughout the Hyndland area. Judging was practically an impossible task due to the very high standard of the all the participants work but eventually Jack Low was declared the winner, for his perspective shot of the Cottiers tower. Runners-Up on the day were Jordan Skrynka and Emma McBride.

Art teacher Alex Dempster commented “it was a great project for the pupils and they got a lot out of the day...this is a brilliant way to get people thinking about their everyday landscape and the heritage of the city that we sometimes take for granted”.

An exhibition of selected images from the competition, including the overall winning photograph, will be on display at Glasgow City Heritage Trust’s gallery later in the year- keep an eye on our Events page for more information.

If you are interested in finding out more about how your school can take part in this competition, please get in touch with us for more details.

S3 pupil Jack low’s winning image.

A selection of images from the day.

Pupils were out and about in Hyndland to photograph the city’s heritage.