If Glasgow’s Walls Could Talk
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago -A podcast by Glasgow City Heritage Trust which focuses on the relationships, stories and shared memories that exist between Glasgow’s historic buildings and the city's communities. Presented by Glasgow City Heritage Trust’s Director Niall Murphy, this series features guests discussing with Niall a specific area, type of building or aspect of Glasgow’s heritage, not only from a historical and architectural point of view, but also from the perspective of the community; drawing on the guests’ personal experiences, thoughts, knowledge and memories.
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A Natter with Niall (with Norry Wilson, Lost Glasgow)
May 18, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour - 197 MBHave you wondered what Niall's favourite building in Glasgow is? Well this week you can find out! The tables are turned on Niall as his good friend Norry finds out about how he ended up at GCHT and any lessons he's learned from the podcast. Norry Wilson is a well known figure in Glasgow, having set up Lost Glasgow in 2012. Norry is a journalist and social historian with a lifelong fascination with his home city, Glasgow. His Lost Glasgow Facebook page and Twitter accounts, with th...
Dear Green Place with Fiona Sinclair
May 11, 2023 23:01 - 56 minutes - 130 MBIn our penultimate episode of the Series Niall and conservation architect Fiona Sinclair take a metaphorical walk through Glasgow's many parks and green spaces. They talk about the Victorians who planned these spaces for citizens to enjoy more than a hundred and fifty years ago, how they have changed over time, and how they've been used, with a stop at some of the well known glasshouses along the way. This conversation was recorded on 9th February 2023. Keep an eye on our websit...
Women Make History with Gabrielle Macbeth and Anabel Marsh (Glasgow Women's Library)
May 04, 2023 23:01 - 48 minutes - 112 MBWe're joined by Gabrielle Macbeth, Volunteer Coordinator at Glasgow Women's Library and Anabel Marsh, one of the Library's longest serving volunteers who tell Niall about their pioneering walking tours which started in 2007. We hear how the staff and volunteers have worked tirelessly to highlight women's diverse but often unrecognised impact on the city of Glasgow. This conversation was recorded on 2 March 2023. Keep an eye on our website glasgowheritage.org.uk, join us on socia...
Hospitals, Health & Heritage with Dr Hilary Wilson and Dr Kate Stevens (Friends of Glasgow Royal Infirmary)
April 27, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour - 159 MBIn our first ever live podcast recording we’re joined by Dr Hilary Wilson and Dr Kate Stevens from Friends of Glasgow Royal Infirmary to hear about the history of the development of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the many pioneering healthcare providers that worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and their experiences setting up the recently opened museum in the Royal Infirmary. This conversation was recorded in front of a live audience in the museum at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 24th Augus...
Housing Is A Human Right: Glasgow's Housing Struggle with Joey Simons (Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive)
April 20, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour - 208 MBJoey and Niall discuss the newly formed Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive and how it informs and is informed by Glasgow's strong connection to housing struggles and movements throughout history. Joey tells us about the Archive, what its aims are and how he envisions it evolving. He also chats with Niall about the tradition of rent strikes, occupations and protest that continues up to today. Joey is a writer and artist from Glasgow. He is co-founder of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Ar...
Ghosts of Glasgow with Jan Murdoch-Richards (Lanarkshire Paranormal)
April 13, 2023 23:01 - 31 minutes - 71.4 MBWhilst Glasgow may not be as famous as Edinburgh for it’s ghosts and ghouls, there are still stories of many spooky goings on around the city. Join Jan Murdoch Richards from Lanarkshire Paranormal to hear about their investigations in and around Glasgow. This conversation was recorded on 11th August 2022. Keep an eye on our website glasgowheritage.org.uk, join us on social media @GlasgowHeritage and follow #IfGlasgowsWallsCouldTalk This podcast was produced by Inner Ear for Glas...
Drawing Community with Dr Mitch Miller
April 06, 2023 23:01 - 52 minutes - 119 MBGlasgow is home to the largest concentration of showpeople in Europe, but they go largely unnoticed in the city until planning issues come to light. In this episode Niall and Dr Mitch Miller discuss the long history of showpeople and their yards in Glasgow, how they have changed and developed over the years, and the current threats to their spaces. Dr Miller is a social researcher, artist, and cultural activist who comes from a showpeople family. Over the last couple of decades Mit...
Alasdair Gray's Glasgow with Sorcha Dallas (The Alasdair Gray Archive)
March 30, 2023 23:01 - 55 minutes - 126 MBAlasdair Gray’s iconic work is dotted around the city of Glasgow, but how did the city impact his life and work? This week we’re joined by Sorcha Dallas, Custodian of The Alasdair Gray Archive to discuss all things Alasdair Gray. Sorcha met Gray in 2007 and became Custodian of the archive following his death in 2019. The archive holds a large collection of of Gray's work which includes sketches, drawings and original prints, as well as a a re-staging of his working studio set up. T...
A Snapshot of Glasgow with Chris Leslie
March 24, 2023 00:01 - 1 hour - 152 MBThis week we’re joined by photographer Chris Leslie, who began his career in the Balkans in the 1990s. His 2017 book and multimedia project ‘Disappearing Glasgow’ featured photographs, essays and interviews with people from areas in Glasgow which have dramatically changed in the last ten years including Dalmarnock and the Red Road flats. Niall and Chris discuss the changes that they have seen across the city and the impact this has had on the people that live there. Find out more ...
Glasgow on Film with Dr Emily Munro (National Library of Scotland's Moving Image Archive)
March 16, 2023 14:01 - 59 minutes - 136 MBIn our first episode of Series 2 we welcome Dr Emily Munro, Curator and Learning Officer at the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Imagine Archive for an enlightening discussion about Glasgow on film. The Moving Image Archive is Scotland's national collection of moving image and is based in Kelvin Hall in the West End of Glasgow, where they care for 46,000 items. Dr Munro and Niall discuss film makers in and around Glasgow, and the great change that the city has seen over the l...
Entertainment makes Glasgow, with Judith Bowers, Britannia Panopticon and Gary Painter, Scottish Cinemas Project.
December 22, 2021 07:15 - 50 minutes - 116 MBAcross the 19th and 20th centuries, Glasgow was home to a huge number of music halls, theatres, and cinemas, which served and entertained the population. These spaces occupied a significant role in the social and architectural life of the city and in people’s memories, and many still do. Join us for a double guest episode about the entertainment industry of the past, with a focus on historic music halls, theatres, and historic cinemas with Judith Bowers, Founder and Director of the...
Entertainment makes Glasgow, with Judith Bower, Britannia Panopticon and Gary Painter, Scottish Cinema Project.
December 22, 2021 07:15 - 50 minutes - 116 MBAcross the 19th and 20th centuries, Glasgow has been home to a huge number of music halls, theatres, and cinemas, which served and entertained the population. During that time these spaces occupied, and many still do, a significant role in the social and architectural life of the city and in people's memories. Join us for a double guests episode about the entertainment industry of the past with a focus on historic music halls, theatres, and historic cinemas with Judith Bower, foun...
Much more than just football - historic stadiums and Football Memories, with Robert Harvey, Football Memories Scotland
December 16, 2021 06:45 - 29 minutes - 67.5 MBPeople and social interactions are at the heart of football, just like stadiums and other venues linked to a specific sport, such as pubs and clubs. Football Memories Scotland is a project which provides opportunities for people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia to reminisce through discussion of archive football images. The Scottish football archive at the Scottish Football Museum holds thousands of images covering the history of the game in Scotland. These images are used as m...
There's nothing more beautiful than potential, community ownership and historic school buildings, with Martin Avila, Kinning Park Complex
December 09, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBHave you ever wondered why there are so many historic school buildings in our city? The high number of old schools in Glasgow relates to the Education Scotland Act of 1872, which made elementary education compulsory and free for all children between the ages of 5 and 13. In Glasgow alone, 75 new schools were built between 1873 and 1918. The cost, upkeep and preservation of these massive Victorian and Edwardian School Board buildings has been a constant challenge for the council, t...
Splashes of colours around the city, with John Foster, City Centre Mural Trail and Ali Smith, Art Pistol
December 02, 2021 06:25 - 56 minutes - 128 MBDuring the last decade, mural painting has flourished in Glasgow, and they can be found all over the city, covering a huge range of topics from saints’ lives to flying taxis, pelicans, swimmers and poems. The Glasgow City Council’s Mural Fund is a scheme which offers support towards the costs involved in creating and delivering new murals in the city centre. In this episode we discuss how Glasgow’s murals enrich the urban landscape and the process behind their creation with John F...
Accessibility and Heritage, with accessibility consultant Emily Rose Yates
November 25, 2021 10:08 - 45 minutes - 104 MBGlasgow is famous for its stunning historic buildings dating from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, when the city was known as the Second City of the Empire. Unfortunately, a lot of these heritage spaces are inaccessible to many people living, working and visiting Glasgow. Barriers are at the root of disabled people’s exclusion and are an obstacle to their enjoyment and appreciation of heritage, culture and art. In Scotland, one in five people are disabled. Only 8% of Scott...
A multiplicity of voices, slavery and Glasgow - with Katie Bruce, curator at Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow Life
November 17, 2021 22:33 - 49 minutes - 113 MBFrom the 1700s until the UK abolished slavery in 1833, many Glasgow merchants made their fortune from trading tobacco, sugar, rum and cotton produced by enslaved people on plantations or in factories. Historians have recorded 19 slave voyages leaving Greenock and Port Glasgow in the six decades between 1706 and 1766, carrying roughly 3000 people into slavery. Many historic buildings and areas in Glasgow are linked with these trades. In this episode we talk to Glasgow’s Gallery of ...
Tenement life, with Ana Sanchez De la Vega, Tenement House and Allistair Burt, Camphill Gate.
November 11, 2021 11:13 - 42 minutes - 97.5 MBThis double guest episode is about the history of tenements in Glasgow and what it is like to live in a tenement now compared to living in one at the start of the 20th Century. Living in a tenement is extremely common in Glasgow, as stone tenements have been part of the fabric of our city since the 19th century. According to recent research, around 73% of Glaswegians live in a tenement of some sort! Tenements were first built during the industrial revolution to accommodate large n...
Mapping Queer Scotland, with Dr Jeffrey Meek, Glasgow University.
November 04, 2021 08:04 - 53 minutes - 121 MBIn this episode we talk about Scottish LGBTQ+ history and places, and how queer stories are researched and interpreted. Today, LGBTQ+ people in Scotland can marry, adopt children and pursue wonderful careers. Political leaders and public figures can openly identify as gay or bisexual, and Scotland recently topped two European league tables measuring legal protections offered to LGBTQ+ people. But this is all very recent, and Scotland only decriminalised gay sex between consenting m...
Disappeared Glasgow, with Reverend John Harvey, former member of Gorbals Group Ministry and Stuart Baird, Glasgow Motorway Archive
October 28, 2021 12:38 - 53 minutes - 123 MBThis episode features two great guests discussing the architectural, structural and social transformations that Glasgow went through in the 20th century, and what they meant for the communities who were affected by the changes. After the Second World War, the majority of the houses built during the Victorian period were considered a “housing problem” due to their high density, poor sanitation and structural deficiencies. In the second half of the 20th century, the most common solu...
Are you dancing? Yes, we are asking, with Norry Wilson, Lost Glasgow.
October 26, 2021 21:17 - 43 minutes - 101 MBIn this episode we talk about historic music venues and ballrooms, such as the Barrowland Ballroom and the Apollo, and their role as spaces of interaction and connection within the city. Do you have special memories linked to a music venue? How important are places like this for our collective memory? Few know more about Glasgow’s memories than Norry Wilson of Lost Glasgow, who joined us as our guest for this episode. Norry is a journalist and social historian with a lifelong fasci...
“If Glasgow’s Walls Could Talk” Teaser
September 13, 2021 10:03 - 3 minutes - 7.45 MBAre you interested in Glasgow, and its historic buildings and want to know more about the stories that make this city so special? Every week we will be exploring a variety of heritage topics and historic buildings in Glasgow together with a bunch of amazing guests and host Niall Murphy, GCHT deputy director. Apart from great interviews and interesting discussions, we firmly believe that the best part of the "If Glasgow's Walls Could Talk" podcast is that you can help us make it e...