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Free to Explore

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)

Walking route, Glasgow Scotland
Map of the route(s) I took, Glasgow walking

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 / Teneu mural

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

Templeton Carpet Factory, Glasgow Green

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).

Entrance to the Barras, Glasgow

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)

Reid Gallery

Suffragette ribbons I found on my walk

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 - travels in Edinburgh

Walking to Cramond Island

Walking to Cramond Island, film on Vimeo (2021)

Cramond Island, Edinburgh

Featuring the Dragon’s Teeth

“… concrete pyramids, much larger than the usual dragons’ teeth, were erected alongside the causeway during the Second World War to prevent enemy boats coming through the gap between Cramond and Cramond Island.” Anne Burgess

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February First Friday Walk Prompt

Walk/What3Words///, a walk in 3 parts

Guidelines for the February 2026 First Friday Walk (FFW)
Please note that this is a distal prompt, but you can, of course, arrange to walk in a couple or a group wherever you are.

Choose a place to walk and make work.
Find out the W3W/// location for your starting place (you will probably have a few options, so choose the one you like best or are most attracted to.)*
Store those 3 words in your mind / notebook / phone.
Set your timer and start walking. Stop after 15 minutes.
Choose one of the 3 words and use it to make an intervention (it can be a photo(s), conversation, drawing, rubbing, poem, thought, installation … whatever you like). After long enough, walk for a further 15 minutes.
Choose a second word and make an intervention as before (or differently).

Repeat a third time.

Either in the open air or back at home, compose your work in whatever way makes sense.

Share with someone or on social media #walkingtheland #firstfridaywalk
The title (or subtitle of your work) will be the W3W/// and something of your choice.

What you will need

The W3W/// app or a text of some sort (poem, newspaper article etc)*
Materials of your choice for making
A timer, watch, or phone

Extra notes

*If you do not already have the W3W/// app on your phone, you can download it before you leave, from the Playstore or Applestore, look it up on the internet or on a laptop. If the whole W3W/// thing is too technology-focused for you, choose the 15th, 30th and 45th words from a text of your choice.

If you want to stay out longer, repeat with a second W3W/// address.

If you are part of another Walking the Land project, you could choose your Deep Encounters place to do this FFW, or walk at a distance with your Walking in Pairs partner (perhaps you decide in advance to swap W3W addresses, or use a mix of them).

Happy Walking!

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There and Back

A walk to celebrate the Autumn Equinox on Monday 22 September 2025, 5.30-7.15pm meeting at The Pitt. Booking link

At the Autumn Equinox, there is balance between the daylight and the dark. As we celebrate and embrace this momentary state of equilibrium, let us take a deep breath. Transformation and renewal will come with the start of the season, so this is a good time to pause, walk, and notice what’s around us.

Meeting at The Pitt, Granton at 5.30pm, we’ll say hello, then walk in pairs towards Silverknowes, and back again. When we get back to our starting place, we’ll have some refreshment and discuss what we noticed. The event will end at sunset (7.12pm). Let’s hope it’s a clear night!

This is a flat walk on a hard surface and therefore wheel-friendly, whether buggy, wheelchair, stick or other. There are stands to lock up your bicycle at the start. Buses stop some way away: try 16, 19, 22 and get off either at Granton Square or the foot of Waterfront Avenue ///nail.served.dizzy or near the top of Spiers Bruce Way (bus top acid.pulse.cloth) and walk down.

I’m describing this walk as a Community Walk because we will walk together. All adults (and accompanied children) plus dogs are welcome. You do not have to live in Granton!

Please bring refreshments – I will provide chocolate/fruit.

This event is free to attend, though a donation of £5 per person would be gratefully received.

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Gateway to This

A walk for 4WCoP25 (the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography 2025), the theme of which is, ‘After That, This’

You can walk in person with me in Swansea, Wales at 3pm on Saturday 11th October (this is the booking link for the whole Congress which is free of charge. There is no individual link for this walk). Alternatively, you can join us wherever you are in the world, alone or with a group, with the prompt below.

Gateway to … Shetland youth hostel

A co-created walk of 45 minutes duration

‘After That’ (the past) and before we get to ‘This’ (now), we must pass through a portal. This walk will seek gateways of all shapes and sizes. It’s for those who haven’t yet arrived in, or are curious about, the present moment.

Moving through a portico, from one side to the other, sometimes in conversation, sometimes silent, the present will be revealed. Carrying with you a paper portal sporting the words, Gateway to … , it’s the walking through and under these transitionary arches that will help us finish the sentence.

Free downloads (two) for the distal version of Gateway to This

4WCop 2025 Gateway to This prompt 1Download
Gateway to This – Image to download or print outDownload

This event is free of charge.

Gateway to … bridge on the Roseburn Path, Edinburgh