Glasgow City Heritage Trust

16/02/2026

🏚️ Taking Care of Your Tenement: In-Person Info Session

🆘 Worried about a leaky roof? Concerned about damp in your flat? Not sure how to talk to your neighbours about joint repairs?

Then join GCHT and Under One Roof Scotland for a free and informative event aimed at owner-occupiers, landlords or anyone who wants to learn more about maintaining and managing their historic tenement flats. Topics covered will include tenement maintenance and management, communal repairs and what to consider when undertaking works.

There will also be a chance to hear about GCHT’s historic environment grants programme and whether you might be eligible for funding.

📆 Thursday, 5th March | 6:00-7:30pm
📍Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G41 1BA
🎟️ Free! (Booking essential): https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/product/taking-care-of-your-tenement-in-person-info-session/

12/02/2026

📣 There's still time to sign up for our upcoming online session all about working with Factors when you live in a tenement!

We'll be joined by Under One Roof Scotland to discuss how to communicate openly and effectively, how to understand your factor’s Written Statement of Service, and how to resolve issues.

📆 Tuesday 17th February | 12:00-1:00pm
📍 Online via Zoom

🎟️ To sign up:

Join GCHT and Under One Roof for an info session all about working with factors.

11/02/2026

Tonight ✨ Exhibition launch

Join us this evening for the launch of [un]Faithful Reinstatement — a new exhibition asking what Glasgow can learn from Mexico City about saving heritage buildings.

Exploring adaptive reuse, working with decay, and being deliberately “unfaithful” to original designs, the exhibition looks at how historic buildings can be reactivated for contemporary use.

🎉 Drop-in launch event
🕓 Today, 4–7pm
📍 Glasgow City Heritage Trust, 54 Bell Street, Glasgow
🎟 Free entry

Can’t make it tonight? The exhibition is open Wed–Fri, 10am–4pm until 27 February.

Funded by Glasgow City Heritage Trust and The Mackintosh Society
Curated by Julian Caldwell and Mukund Anand Worathur

https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/exhibition-unfaithful-reinstatement/

We’d love to see you there 👋

08/02/2026

What can Glasgow learn from Mexico City about saving heritage buildings?

From Art Deco townhouses to layered ruins brought back into use, [un]Faithful Reinstatement looks at how architects in Mexico City are reactivating historic buildings — not through purist restoration, but by working with what already exists.

This exhibition explores what those approaches might offer Glasgow, challenging how we think about reuse, regulation and risk.

🎉 Drop-in launch event:
🗓 Wednesday 11 February, 4–7pm

🕙 Exhibition open Wed–Fri, 10am–4pm
📍 GCHT, 54 Bell Street, Glasgow
🎟 Free entry

Funded by Glasgow City Heritage Trust and The Mackintosh Society
Curated by Julian Caldwell and Mukund Anand Worathur

🔗 More info: https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/exhibition-unfaithful-reinstatement/

06/02/2026

We were delighted to attend the opening of the ‘Equitable Communities of Health in the Climate Era’ exhibition at the University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre yesterday evening.

The project invites final-year Product Design students at The Glasgow School of Art to explore equitable health through the creation of speculative future worlds and communities, imagining new personal, population, public and planetary experiences ten years from now.

Thank you to Programme Leader Kirsty Ross for inviting GCHT to take part as members of the expert input panel this year. It was fascinating to discuss the students’ ideas with them and to watch their concepts develop over the course of the project. Working in partnership with other organisations and educational institutions is hugely important to us, and opportunities like this allow us to share knowledge, learn from others, and support innovative thinking around health and climate challenges, and how it relates to the built environment.

If you’d like a glimpse into the future- and to see some innovative and inspiring ideas for creating more equitable healthcare in the climate era- make sure and visit the exhibition:

📍 The ARC, 11 Chapel Lane
🗓️ 6th Feb & 9-12th Feb
⏰️ 9am - 5pm

05/02/2026

We still have a handful of tickets left for Saturday's drypoint etching workshop with Mobile Print Studio!

✔️ Learn how to engrave, ink & print your own artwork
✔️ Create prints inspired by Glasgow’s iconic architecture
✔️ Beginners absolutely welcome- no experience needed, give it a go!
✔️ All materials & lunch included

📅 Saturday, 7 Feb
🕚 11:00 – 16:00
📍Many Studios

More info & booking here 👉 https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/product/workshop-drypoint-etching-with-mobile-print-studio/

01/02/2026

Remembering Glasgow’s forgotten women

Recently, the Glasgow Times reported on growing calls for a memorial to mark the site of Glasgow’s Lock Hospital for “Unfortunate Females” — an institution that shaped (and scarred) the lives of thousands of women and girls, yet remains largely unmarked in the city today.

The campaign is being led by historian Anna Forrest, who also wrote our in-depth blog exploring the history of the building, the women confined there, and the social attitudes that allowed this chapter of Glasgow’s past to be forgotten.

📖 In our blog, Anna looks beyond the building itself to tell the human stories behind it — and asks what remembrance, accountability and compassion might look like today.

👉 Read: The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females
🔗 https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/the-glasgow-lock-hospital-for-unfortunate-females/

📰 Read the news coverage: Glasgow Times – Calls for memorial to Glasgow’s forgotten Lock Hospital

Remembering difficult histories matters — especially when those histories centre voices that were silenced for so long.

Opened in 1845, this new purpose built hospital at 41 Rottenrow was Glasgow’s only provision for women with venereal disease. The women were kept in reformatory conditions and subjected to treatments that were more experimental than effective...

29/01/2026

There's just a handful of tickets left for our upcoming CPD session!

GCHT, in partnership with the RIAS, is hosting a CPD providing a clear overview of the RIAS Conservation Accreditation scheme.

Aimed at architects seeking to develop or formalise their expertise in conservation, the session will offer practical guidance on the accreditation process, explore how conservation theory informs design decisions, and outline the professional value of accreditation in supporting career progression and recognition.

📆 Thursday, 5th February | 1:00-2:00pm

🎟️ To book:

Join GCHT and RIAS for a CPD session looking at their conservation accreditation scheme.

28/01/2026

🏘️ Taking Care of Your Tenement: Working With Factors

In Glasgow, thousands of tenement owners work with factors to manage and maintain their buildings. In this free lunchtime webinar, GCHT and Under One Roof will talk about how best to work with factors.

Together, we’ll discuss how to communicate openly and effectively, how to understand your factor’s Written Statement of Service, and how to resolve issues.

📆 Tuesday, 17th February | 12:00 -1:00pm
📍 Online, via Zoom
🎟️ To book: https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/product/taking-care-of-your-tenement-working-with-factors/

26/01/2026

🏛️ Love Glasgow’s buildings, stories and hidden histories?

We’ve got a newsletter going out next week — and it’s packed with behind-the-scenes stories from across Glasgow’s built heritage.

✨ Our emails include:
• Upcoming events & talks
• New films and Heritage Hub content
• Grants and opportunities
• Ways to support and get involved

👉 Sign up now to make sure you get the next one: https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/contact-us/mailing-list/
(No spam — just thoughtful updates, straight to your inbox.)

15/01/2026

📣 Upcoming CPD Opportunity!

Join GCHT and RIAS for a CPD session offering an overview of the RIAS Conservation Accreditation Scheme.

Designed for architects looking to advance their career in conservation, the session will provide practical insights into the accreditation process, demonstrate how theory underpins confident and informed design decisions, and highlight how accreditation can enhance professional development and recognition.

📆 Thursday, 5th February | 1:00-2:00pm
🎟️ To book: https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/product/cpd-conservation-theory-and-accreditation/

14/01/2026

If one of your new year’s resolutions is to invest in your skills or build your career, then GCHT’s Training Grants could be for you. 💼

These grants are designed to support traditional skills training and professional development opportunities which help cultivate a skilled workforce for Glasgow’s built heritage.

Past Training Grants have funded people to:

🔨 Learn traditional skills such as plastering and tiling
📚 Build conservation knowledge through CPD sessions and conferences
🧱 Attend workshops to develop practical skills in historic building repair

Grants are available up to £750 and applications are open to anyone 18+, working or studying in Scotland’s built environment.

👉 Interested? Find out more and apply: https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/training-grants/