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The Friends of The Pipe Factory CIC was formed in March 2020. We aim to raise £2.4m to make the building openly accessible to all.

In spring 2021 we purchased The Pipe Factory and plan to renovate it as a creative community hub in The Barras, Glasgow. If you wish to hire our spaces, please contact [email protected]

For other queries, please contact [email protected]

27/07/2026

Another great tour down! 👻

We’ll be back with more tours soon with new themes and more stories.

Thank you to all that came along and donated. All the money went straight the tour guide team that developed and researched the tour and to the development of the next ones!

24/07/2026

It’s been a busy summer at The Pipe Factory. The retiling of the roof is almost complete, and the new rooflights have now been installed.

The contractor has reused the existing slate roof tiles wherever possible and sourced salvaged matching replacement slate tiles where necessary.

The major preservation and refurbishment of the Pipe Factory is generously funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund Glasgow City Council and Historic Environment Scotland

13/07/2026

“The most Barras tour of the Barras…ever!”

We had a blast hosting our first Haunted History tour around the barras. Filled with costumes, techno music, stories of Bible John, hotdogs and karaoke in the Cabin Bar!

Next tour is on the 25th of July. 🔗 in bio and all donations go straight to the locals developing this tour. New stories added everytime!

04/07/2026

A week today!

We’ll be hosting our first Barras Haunted History Tour. Meeting at 62 Moncur street and taking a long and spooky route around the stalls in the shadows of The Pipe Factory. Come join us and learn some interesting facts (and fictions), meet some local businesses and hear first-hand stories from locals! A pint 🍺 and some food 🌭 might also be in store!

Tickets for the 11th and 25th are available in our bio.
All tickets are free with an optional donation to go towards the locals who created the tour.

01/07/2026

Discussing divination practices, card pulling, classifications and fortune-telling ancestors yesterday! Was so fun to do some metal engraving and card making in reaction to great research and conversation! Inspired by tarot, palm reading, local mystics, celebrity magicians and religious superstitions.
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This concludes our two-part collaboration with glasgowocculthistoryclub for this year but we can’t wait to have them back!
If there’s anything you’d like to see in our programme let us know by emailing [email protected]!

10/06/2026

Mapping and moving!
We took it to the streets yesterday getting to grips with how cities layer up their history in physical ways. How we understand maps and how we sometimes miss things on our everyday routes!

Took a trip down to Moore Street, the site of the old meat market entrance. In addition to being a slaughterhouse it was a meeting place for thousands of men to gather to look for jobs.

Also, paid homage to Kenny Hunter’s ‘Calf’ statue often forgotten and christened the “loneliest statue in Glasgow.”

Lots of ideas and reactions! Our next Archive and Research Circle is the 30th June. Always free and open to all. Just come along if you want to get involved. Any questions email: [email protected]

The archive programme is kindly supported by

05/06/2026

Our Barras Haunted History Tours tickets are now LIVE for the 11th and 25th of July. These are due to be popular so book to avoid disappointment. Link in bio and on our website.

We are operating an optional donation for tickets. All donations will go towards supporting the locals that have enthusiastically organise this tour! We can’t wait! 🎟️

29/05/2026

We are back with our hard hat tours!
Our volunteers, collaborators, partners and supports all enjoy seeing the building take shape. Many have never been in the building and enjoy getting a sense of the factory’s space and feel.

More tours to be released soon! 👀 Keep an eye on our website and Instagram. Any questions email: [email protected]

Big thank you to our design team:
Taylor and Fraser

And our funders:

23/05/2026

Great to have a sneak peek 👀 in the factory building yesterday! Enjoyed seeing the new windows 🪟 and bricks 🧱 all painstakingly measured and sourced to maintain the original heritage details of the building. Lots of care and hard work from and Taylor and Fraser.

We also laughed seeing the beloved and quirky chandelier still at the top of the stairs!

Public Hard Hat Tours to be announced soon!

13/05/2026

Quota Sheets • Time Cards • Private Notes • Designs • Employee Manual • Pipes!

What do you do when you don’t have paper archives to tell a story? You imagine the lives and embody female workers in the factory - creating fictional materials that makes their lives more real! It a as a great session last night making pipes, imagined ephemera, talking archives and imaging past lives!

If you’d like to get involved we hold our sessions fortnightly on Tuesday evenings or by appointment by emailing [email protected]

Address

Glasgow
G402LA

Telephone

+441412460445

Website

http://www.thepipefactory.co.uk/

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