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Glasgow has been here for thousands of
years - literally! Architecture & Art Area Specific Links Education Entertainment Family History Glasgow Guides History Local Government Links Libraries & Archives Miscellaneous Museums & Galleries Newspaper Links Photo & Video Archives Religion Rivers & Canals Transport Video Clips
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Architecture and Art (back to top) Andy Scott is responsible for some of the art installations along the M8 and in Glasgow.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/BAR/ The buildings at risk register. Maintained by the Scottish Civic Trust on behalf of Historic Scotland.
The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society website.
How Glasgow will evolve in the 21st century
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust was established to rescue, repair, restore and rehabilitate historic buildings of architectural merit which through neglect or abuse may otherwise be lost. The Trust makes a major contribution to Glasgow's regeneration through the preservation of its built heritage and organises the annual Doors Open Day event in Glasgow.
www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/ Glasgow architecture resource and forum
Information on the lives and work of the Sculptors, Carvers, Architects, Builders and Foundries who have contributed to making Glasgow a great and internationally renowned City of Sculpture.
The Alexander Thomson Society website.
Glasgow School of Art website
The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association website
Scottish Arts Council website
This site aims to illustrate the diversity of Scottish urban architecture in Glasgow and Edinburgh
Up-to-date News stories and What's On events, as well as articles, interviews and constantly updated Buildings and Places pages featuring the latest thoughts and developments happening across Scotland.
http://users.colloquium.co.uk/~glasgowwest/ Friends of Glasgow West website
Area Specific Links (back to top) The Strathbungo Society official website.
Cart blanche is a voluntary group promoting the regeneration of the White Cart Water neighbourhoods along its most highly urbanised stretch of riverbanks, between Pollok House in Pollok Country Park and Holmwood House by the Linn Park, Cathcart.
Dennistoun Online, the community website serving the districts of Dennistoun, Milnbank, Reidvale, Wellpark, Haghill, Drygate and Ladywell in the East End of Glasgow.
East Glasgow Learning Network supported by Glasgow East Regeneration Agency, Glasgow Housing Authority and Glasgow Community Planning Partnership.
Glasgow East Regeneration Agency website.
A guide to the Merchant City.
Friends of Glasgow Necropolis website
A local directory serving the Southside of Glasgow.
Pat Byrnes’ community guide promoting the West End of Glasgow
A website for families and pals all over the world to share memories and photographs of Glasgow, particularly the East end and Bridgeton
Charlie McDonald’s website for Glaswegians born and bred in the city's east end, Especially those from the Parkhead and Camlachie districts
Glasgow South East Regeneration Agency website.
The story of Grahamston and its role in Glasgow history.
www.greatereasterhouse.co.uk/provanhall/friends_ph.htm The Friends of Provan Hall website
www.hamiltonhill.blogspot.com/ Hamiltonhill Residents Association.
Glasgows Merchant City.
www.pollokshieldsheritage.org/ Pollokshields website
Renfrewshire Local History Forum was formed in 1988 to act as an umbrella organization, bringing together all the societies in the county which have an interest in history or heritage.
Royston Road website
A web site dedicated to the preservation and appreciation of the historical and educational assets of the Southern Necropolis
A Community website serving the G41 postcode area in the southside of Glasgow, covering the communities of Dumbreck, Pollokshields, Shawlands, Strathbungo, Crossmyloof and Langside.
A Community website serving the G42 postcode area, including Govanhill, Crosshill, Toryglen, Mount Florida and Battlefield.
Govan community website
Drumchapel history website
The Clydebank Story tells the story of the town in words and pictures.
How the little fishing village on the banks of the Clyde became an industrial powerhouse
Official West End festival website
www.achieversuk.com/schoolpgs/Scotland/Glasgownew/glasA.html AchieversUK.com aims to raise the ambition and confidence of young people in state schools by highlighting the success of former pupils. The initiative draws attention to the achievements not only of high flyers, but also of individuals who may not be household names but who carry out a vital role in society
www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/ University of Glasgow library's Special Collections
www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Glasgow.htm A directory of theatres and halls, past and present.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/glasgowempiretheatre/ Bob Bain’s Glasgow Empire Website
Glasgow Film Theatre website
Glasgow Barrowland and Barra’s market website.
A compilation and history of Glasgow cinemas
www.glasgowmerchantcity.net/britanniapanopticontrust.htm Scotland’s last surviving music hall website
http://www.glasgowtheatreroyal.co.uk/ A history and guide to Glasgow’s Theatre Royal
A website dedicated to recording and archiving historic cinema architectural heritage
Scottish genealogy website
Sources of study of Scottish life from the 18th and 19th centuries.
A site comprising UK-wide births, deaths, marriages and census records
Contains millions of cemetery records.
Information on family history resources and research in the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
General Register Office for Scotland, responsible for the registration of births, marriages, civil partnerships, deaths, divorces, and adoptions.
Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society website.
The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland. The site also contains statutory registers, census records and old parish registers.
Digitised records of surviving wills and testaments registered in Scottish commissary courts and sheriff courts from 1500 to 1901.
Scottish Genealogy website
www.snwm.org/website/frames.html The Scottish National War Memorial commemorates nearly 150,000 Scottish casualties in the First World War, 1914 - 1918, over 50,000 in the Second World War, 1939 - 1945 and the campaigns since 1945, including the Malayan Emergency, the Korean War, Northern Ireland, the Falklands War and the Gulf War.
Incorporating the Encyclopaedia Alba.
A complete free human-edited directory and reviews guide to the best of business, service, accommodation and activity listings for the city of Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
A guide to hotels, accommodation and what’s on.
Pages of local information listing thousands of shops, restaurants and pubs.
A guide to going out in Glasgow
Old Glasgow Club former President and Librarian, Mrs Liz Smiths’ Glasgow website.
A what’s on and review website
www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Visitors/WhatsOn/ City Councils’ what’s on guide
A directory of Scottish websites
Glasgow: Scotland with Style homepage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/events/ The BBC website which ties in with their Historic Scotland season.
www.electricscotland.com/history/ Information on the history of Scotland including accounts of famous battles, stories of the Scottish regiments, and the general and social history of Scotland and the Scots.
www.electricscotland.com/history/glasgow/anecndx.htm Five books of Glaswegian stories from Robert Alison, 1892
Glasgow Archaeological Society website
East Glasgow history site – preserving the history of the eastern districts of Glasgow.
Scottish family tree website.
Edinburgh's local history society, concerned with all aspects of the city's history and development.
Over 13,000 Scottish-related regularly updated links
www.theglasgowstory.co.uk/index.php TheGlasgowStory tells the story of Glasgow in words and pictures
Local Government Links (back to top) Glasgow City Council
www.glasgowcommunityplanningpartnership.org.uk/gcpphome.aspx The Glasgow Community Planning Partnership (CPP) brings key public, private, community and voluntary representatives together with the aim of delivering better, more joined-up public services in the city.
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service Archives.
Culture and Sport Glasgow website
Historic Scotland is an executive agency of the Scottish Government.
www.homecomingscotland.com/default.html Official Guide to the Homecoming 2009 events
National Trust for Scotland website
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Scottish Tourist Board Website
Community Council Websites www.hillheadcc.org.uk/home.php
Libraries and Archives (back to top)
British Library online newspapers covering the 19thC including The Glasgow Herald and the stage paper The Era.
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index.html Glasgow Digital Library, an organised digital image collection.
University of Glasgow archive services
www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Library_Services/The_Mitchell/ Glasgow’s Mitchell Library website
www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/scotland/ Information on workhouses in Glasgow
The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) website
UK Government Records website
National Library of Scotland website
Online repository of historical and old ordinance survey maps
Scottish Archive Network website
Information on Fife and Lanarkshire miners lives compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles.
www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/ University of Glasgow library's Special Collections
Strathclyde Fire Brigade Preservation Group
www.geocities.com/govanhillbaths/history.html Govanhill Baths Community Trust website
This site includes a description of a night in the museum of Transport.
www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/Parks_gardens/friendsofglasgowsparks.htm Friends of Glasgow Parks website
Glickman’s Confectionary, established in 1903, is the oldest sweetie shop in Glasgow. This website describes the history of the business and lets you order your sweeties online.
The hidden side of Glasgow. Photo’s, images, history and forum.
http://www.greatwesternauctions.com/ TV presenter and previous club speaker Anita Mannings’s Great Western Auctions website.
Write your own story about Glasgow and you can illustrate it from TheGlasgowStory's collection of over 12,000 images
www.peatfreak.com/alfred-barnard-yoker.php Information on the Yoker Distillery.
www.puredeadbrillianttours.com/ Vehicle & Walking Group Tours from Glasgow.
www.raf.mod.uk/rafreserves/squadrons/glasgowno602cityofglasgowsquadron.cfm 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron website
The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow website
A comprehensive, accurate and “up to date” guide of Scotch whisky and the Scotch whisky industry
The guide to the Southern Necropolis
The clockwork orange pubcrawl guide
http://www.tnais.com/bbis/links.html This site was created and is maintained by Tom F. Cunningham, a vice-president of the UK-based Thunderbird North American Indian Society. Contains information on Buffalo Bill in Scotland.
Museums and Galleries (back to top) Comprises links to all museums in the Glasgow area
National galleries of Scotland website
National Museums of Scotland website
www.visitlanarkshire.com/summerlee-museum.aspx Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life website
http://archive.scotsman.com/search.cfm
Photo and Video Archives (back to top) A glimpse of Old Glasgow dating back to 1855. Archive photo’s from the original collection of T & R Annan and Sons Ltd.
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/ The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry from T & R Annan’s archives
Scenes of Glasgow past and present
The Glaswegians Photo Archive is a record of Glasgow through photographs of its people - their lives, habits, quirks and cultures comprising images from 30,000 photographs taken between 1989 and 1992 by the Cranhill Arts Project.
www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitchell/ Glasgow Photo Archive held in the Mitchell Library
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/june2004.html Glasgow in Panorama (1907) taken in 1905 from the University tower by T. & R. Annan.
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/mar2006.html The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow. Created between 1868 and 1871 as part of a commission from the City of Glasgow Improvements Trust, this collection of images of the working class areas of old Glasgow helped document the impoverished living conditions of the working class at the time.
Scottish Screen Archive is Scotland's national moving images collection. It preserves over 100 years of Scottish history on film and video
The Church of Scotland website.
A flavour of Cathedral life, past, present and future
Glasgow Churches Together was formed in 1988 as part of the Glasgow Garden Festival celebrations, and continues as an ecumenical forum and focus for activities.
Govan Old Parish Church website
www.haruth.com/JewsUKGarnethill.html Garnethill Synagogue website.
www.pollokshieldschurchestogether.org.uk/ Pollokshields Churches Together was formed in the early 1960s and seeks to encourage, sustain and strengthen the common mission and witness of its member churches to the people of Pollokshields in Glasgow.
www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/ Holding over 800 years of documentary evidence of the Catholic Church in Scotland and the wider world, the Scottish Catholic Archives is a major resource for understanding Scottish and European history.
www.scotland.anglican.org/diocese/glasgow/ The official website of the United Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway
The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre aims to document and illustrate the religious, organisational, social, economic, political, cultural and family life of Jews in Scotland since the eighteenth century.
Rivers and Canals (back to top) Clydeport Authority website.
Glasgow’s river urban renewal project.
Forth and Clyde Canal Society website
www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/residents/environment/rivers/riverclyde/projects Clyde Waterfront Regeneration webpage
The Tallship at Glasgow harbour web page
British Waterways Scotland website
The River Kelvin Angling Association website
www.titanclydebank.com/index_small.html Clydebank’s Titan Crane website
Official guide to canals, rivers and lakes
Information relating to Glasgow Corporation Tramways/Transport and it's successors, Greater Glasgow PTE, Strathclyde PTE, and Strathclyde's Buses Ltd.
www.photo-transport.co.uk/buses/ggpte/ggpte.htm Photo’s of the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive (GGPTE) fleet.
Ian Semple and Alice Cormack's web pages containing information on Glasgow Corporation Transport 1871 to 1973
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qy0F45apzOw http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_l89CIR6Y&feature=related Montages of Old Glasgow Scenes
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lmy1CytTV68&feature=PlayList&p=C590AEDD49A20B0A&index=35 Queens Park from 1926
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kpWbp4kx7uQ&NR=1 Jamaica St from 1901
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r80G4El9KiY&NR=1 Kelvingrove Park from 1926
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BaRZ7BKOLhM&NR=1 John Brown’s Shipyard from 1926
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4TDftulY8Ag&NR=1 Kilbarchan from 1926
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=96XCON9L5sc A montage of Old Paisley images.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NEFYG_uBS4 One of our favourite speakers, Colin Mackie tells the tale of the White Lady of the Southern Necropolis.
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