Free to Explore, Glasgow City Of Walking
A film by Tamsin Grainger
I took a walk from Queens Street Station to Glasgow Green for a Women’s Heritage Walk which was led by the Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL)
GWL Women’s Heritage Walking Tour
We walked around the East End area in Glasgow visiting different buildings and hearing stories from the industrial and social past.
‘The women of Glasgow’s East End have always had to be industrious and resourceful simply to survive. This walk focuses on some of their achievements and struggles, and the radical nature of the area which gave birth to them.’
GWL website
With thanks to Mary from the GWL. More information on these tours here.
St Thenue (Enoch) is the mother of St Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow. The mural of her on the gable of 374 Abercromby Street, Calton, Glasgow is by Mark Worst. More info here
In 1889, 29 young women lost their lives when a wall blew down in a gale at Templeton Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green. (From this blog, The Templeton Disaster)
We were told about a famous event: On the morning of Tuesday 21 March 1911, 12 women went on strike at the Singer Manufacturing Company in Bridgeton, followed by 10,000 other women and men. This was a brave move against the international company (which also operated in Russia, the US and Germany) and brought the sewing machine plant to a standstill. Link to the Open University information page (now the site of a business park).
Other places I have enjoyed on this route:
Cafe Outlier (38 London Road, G1 5NB)
Gallery The Modern Institute (14-20 Osbourne Street, G1 5QN)
Links
Glasgow Green has long been a site for gatherings. It is the place where I and my walking companions collected with millions of others after walking the Pilgrimage for COP26 in 2021.
Walking without a donkey 