GBPT is a charity that works to rescue, repair and restore historic buildings at risk across Glasgow. Established 1982. Organisers of @Glasgowdodf since 1990.
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined January 2017
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We're kicking off the day by announcing new funding to save seven lesser-known UK #HeritageTreasures! ✨
The projects span the UK from Bristol ➡️ Belfast and Edinburgh ➡️ Essex, protecting these at-risk heritage gems for future generations.
Read more! 👉 heritagefund.org.uk/news/ps2…
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Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
It's here!
Today we launched the new Your Scottish Archives portal at: yourscottisharchives.com
This is the first stage of this exciting new resource for archivists and users of archives. Have a play and let us know what you think.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
Don't worry if you missed our webinar on Home Children last week as part of @Glasgowdodf as the recording is now available!
Thank you to everyone who came and those involved! @gbptrust @StrathGenealogy @LibraryArchives @GC_Archives
Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=ewiwTrS7…
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
It's the final day of the Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2024, and Glasgow's remarkable architectural treasures are still waiting to be discovered!
See today’s highlights below ⬇️
Visit our website for more information: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/…
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
🎉Festival Day 6!
Welcome to festival weekend. Take a look at some of the event highlights taking place on the penultimate day of #GDODF 👇
You can view many more trails and drop-buildings on our website: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/…
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
🗣️Talk Spotlight: ‘How Do you Make a Bandstand?’, Celebrating A Glasgow Icon - 100 Years of Kelvingrove
Find out from Glasgow Building Preservation Trust just how you ‘make a bandstand’ and hear more about the highs and lows of renovating and renewing historic buildings.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
(1/3) 🔍Talk Spotlight - Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage and District, ‘How Can People Make Sauchiehall Street?’
In March 2024, Glasgow Life was awarded £350,000 from of the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s (NLHF) new UK-wide Heritage Places programme.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
Today: Nothing New Under The Sun? Diversity and Diaspora in Different Times.
What do the Gorbals and Ancient Rome have in common? More than you might imagine….Do the diasporas of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Glasgow and Ancient Rome have anything in common?
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
TODAY: Event Today: Grahamston – Glasgow’s Forgotten Village
What actually lies beneath platforms 3 and 4 in Central Station? What was the village of Grahamston like. Why are there still 3 'wonky' streets and two that end in cul-de-sacs?
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
Join us for our upcoming webinar, as part of @Glasgowdodf, that uncovers the British Home Children sent from Scotland to Canada and shows you how you can find their stories.
Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-power…
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
As part of @Glasgowdodf we have worked with @gbptrust to put on two webinars exploring Home Children. Come along to the first webinar this Tuesday to hear about the Golden Bridge Exhibition.
Find out more and book here:
glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/…
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
1/2 On 29th August it will be 50 Years since the SFA lifted the 'ban' on women football. This ban restricted access to grounds, officials and support, but it didn't stop women playing. Help us mark the anniversary by tweeting on 29th about women's football in Scotland celebrating
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
This is an opportune moment to remind schools that we have already filled two thirds of available places for #ClydeintheClassroom 2025.
If you are thinking of signing up before the school holidays, don’t hang about!
#trout #education
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Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
BEYOND THE GAMES
10 years after the Commonwealth Games in Dalmarnock.
A new multimedia exhibition.
Opening night 4th July.
Artist talk and panel discussion on the 6th July.
All welcome.
Supported by
@HeritageFundUK
@WmGrantFound
#glasgow
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
40 years ago, #salmon started to recolonise the Clyde after an absence of 100 years.
This week, we relocated 630 fishes of from a 60m long stretch of #urban burn.
426 of these were salmon.
Clean up the water, remove the barriers to migration, and let the fish get on with it.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
We are looking to appoint two qualified archivists on a consultancy basis to work with us on a NLHF-funded project called Community Stories – Community Archives.
For more details and how to apply head to our website:
scottisharchives.org.uk/late…
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
We walked the path where the Molendinar Burn once flowed. We will share our experience via a free concert @MusicintheUni Chapel on 30th May 7.30pm. Words, images & the music by @AileenSweeney94 @Harmonywriter @stuart_macrae @birdtwitchr William Sweeney @ARROYO_COMPOSER & more
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
Brilliant afternoon in Luton, thanks to @HeritageFundUK for the latest updates, @lutoncouncil for a fantastic talk on their challenges and successes, @HistoricEngland sharing their projects and levelling up strategies - and @culturetrustuk for just simply wowing us!!
@ArchHFund
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Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
Thank you @culturetrustuk for doing a wonderful job hosting the UK #HeritageDevelopmentTrusts in Luton. A truly inspiring couple of days in the Hat District, thanks also to @HeritageFundUK and @HTNmembers. Whatever happens this weekend, you’ll always be Premier League to us!
Brilliant afternoon in Luton, thanks to @HeritageFundUK for the latest updates, @lutoncouncil for a fantastic talk on their challenges and successes, @HistoricEngland sharing their projects and levelling up strategies - and @culturetrustuk for just simply wowing us!!
@ArchHFund
ALT A group of people stand behind giant orange letters that spell out ‘Luton’
ALT A group of people stand by green grassy steps
ALT People in the foreground are facing away and a lady in the middle ground is holding a hat
ALT People stand in a street with historic brick buildings behind them
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust retweeted
Our Newsletter's going out v soon with bookings opening for the first in our #ArtDecoSouthsideAlive! programme of community events. Want to be notified instantly..?
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🧵 Announcing: #ArtDecoSouthsideAlive! our new project exploring & celebrating interwar modernist architecture, design & stories south of the Clyde 🌊🎨✏️🧒🎙️🐾📚🏢... stay tuned for chances to explore & get creative with #Glasgow's #ArtDeco landscape in 2024 & 2025 #HESsupported
