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Exhibition: "The way we were"


  • Maryhill Burgh Halls 10-24 Gairbraid Avenue Glasgow, G20 8YE Scotland (map)

A photographic journey back in time. These photographs document the wholesale demolition of Glasgow’s slum tenements to be replaced by multistory boxes in the sky and peripheral housing schemes remote from the city centre. A time which saw the decline of the traditional industries of heavy engineering, shipbuilding and steelworks which had made Glasgow the second city of the empire. The days of Clyde steamers which transported Glaswegians “doon the water" to Dunoon, Largs and Rothesay. Gillespie’s images capture memories of the past and of a brave new world in the makin

Earlier Event: 14 April
Maryhill Burgh Halls Spring Events
Later Event: 25 February
2021 MBHT AGM (ZOOM)