Talks
Pollokshields Heritage hosts a range of talks which explore local history and heritage as well as arts and culture. These run throughout the year.
Pollokshields Heritage hosts a range of talks, which explore history and heritage as well as arts and culture. They run from November to April and everyone is welcome.
They are held at the Georgeson Room of the Fotheringay Centre, 63 Fotheringay Road, G41 4NN (view map). Nearest train station is Maxwell Park.
Time: 7.30pm start. Doors from 7pm.
Tickets: £6.00 (cash only) with refreshments, no booking necessary.
Upcoming talks from November 2024 to April 2025
Tuesday 19 November 2024, 7:30pm
Scottish Cinemas – a short history
Join us for a whirlwind tour showing how Scotland’s cinemas developed from the early days of music halls, tents and makeshift spaces to the grand picture palaces of the 1930s. See how these buildings brought a wee touch of exotic colour from places like Turkey or Egypt and how the multiplex triggered a revival that sees the whole story coming full circle, with a special focus on the cinemas of the Southside.
About Gary Painter
Gary Painter was a student of Archaeology and Scottish History at Glasgow University when he got a part-time job in the city’s Odeon Cinema. One day, an old projectionist showed him photos of the building in its heyday and thus began two decades of looking for architectural fragments of these lost pleasure palaces, now largely demolished or repurposed unsympathetically. In 2001, he co-founded the scottishcinemas.org project, containing now over 1000 buildings.
Tuesday 21 January 2025, 7:30pm
Glasgow’s Ghost Industry: Industrial Ceramic Manufacture and Trade
Ruth will describe the history of the ceramic manufacture and trade in Glasgow and surrounding areas.
About Ruth Impey
Ruth Impey is a maker and creative producer working from her studio in Glasgow, where she makes ceramics and develops a range of projects using the project development, maker-tutor and heritage & museum skills practised over the course of her career. Her practice is founded on the principle of making’s ability to assemble alternative relationships between objects, people and the wider world. She is Co-Director of Make It Glasgow community interest company and founder of the Scottish Pottery Museum.
Tuesday 18 February 2025, 7:30pm
Dwell, Dine and Design
At the Hill House – Mackintosh and MacDonald fused architecture and artistry to create a happy family home for the Blackie family. But the technical and fabric problems of the construction emerged relatively shortly after its completion in 1904. In 2019 the Box was erected to cover and allow time for the its considered repair. The presentation will cover the planned conservation works at the Hill House, the Trust's second Mackintosh property since the acquisition in January 2024 of the Mackintosh Tea Rooms - on Sauchiehall St.
About Liz Davidson
Liz Davidson is Project Director at the Hill House, Mackintosh’s finest domestic design still open to the public under the National Trust for Scotland. Liz began her career in conservation at Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee, moving to the Scottish Civic Trust and then as Director of the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust organised the UK’s first Doors Open Day in 1990. From 2001 Liz was Head of City Design and Conservation for Glasgow City Council, before being appointed at Glasgow School of Art to lead the restoration of the Mackintosh building after the 2014 fire.
Tuesday 22 April 2025, 7:30pm
Talk from John Gilbert Architects
John Gilberts Architects will speak to us on refitting tenements. They are undertaking projects with ground source pumps amongst other items to improve the environmental performance of tenements. More details to be confirmed soon.
Annual General Meeting 2025
Our AGM will also be held on Tues 22nd April 2025.
Previous talks in 2024
Tuesday 23 April 2024
AGM followed by Alison Brown’s talk entitled Miss Catherine Cranston's tearooms, design collaborations with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and stories of Glasgow’s southside.
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Professor Francis Fowle’s talk entitled Art and Industry: Glasgow’s ‘merchant princes’ and Impressionism.
Tuesday 16 January 2024
Mark Mitchell ‘s talk entitled Archaeological investigation in Pollok Country Park.
Our talks take place at The Fotheringay Centre, 63 Fotheringay Road, G41 4NN.
Tickets on the door.