Talk: Southside House Histories – Time travel under Giffnock floorboards
Join us at 6.50pm on Thursday 25th May at The Deep End on Nithsdale St for the third of our 2023 #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights events – a talk from Paul Noble about a journey that began by accident beneath the floorboards and is heading in some tantalising directions…
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Speaker Paul Noble sets the scene for the unexpected and unfolding jouney his house histories odyssey is taking him on…
“In 1996 when my fiancé and I collected the keys to our soon to be marital home, a 1930’s semi detached bungalow that lies in a sleepy tree-lined avenue in Giffnock, we could never have guessed that below its floorboards lay a treasure trove that links the house to people and places from times gone past.
For the next 26 years, while above the floorboards our family grew, from christenings to 21st parties and everything in between, below us in the crawl space dust settled over these long disgarded relics.
Over the years I had occassion to visit this raised underworld, to run cables, fix leaks and generally crawl around in the dirt. However all I ever saw was rubbish & rubble and the odd giant spider.
Then last year on one such sub-floor venture I decided to video my journey into the labyrinth. This was to be for the benefit of my family, so that for once they too could experience the joy of the crawl space!
Stumbling on liminal space in everyday life…
The light from my phone illuminated into the darkest corners of the basement and through my filmographer’s eyes objects previously pushed aside now jostled for my attention… I gathered them up with wonder and amazment.”
“Resurrected from the depths and bathed in daylight for the first time in many, many years, I resolved to establish the provenance of each item, piece together their history and that of their original owners.
So join me as I discuss the first leg of my investigations into these finds and learn what I now know about my house, its previous inhabitants and where I think the ongoing search for answers may take me in the future…”
TIMINGS:
6.50pm – Doors Open / Registration
7pm – Illustrated talk from Paul Noble followed by Q&A
8.15pm – Ends
More #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights coming soon
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