Talk: Rambles Round the Southside in the 1850s
This special #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights talk on Thursday 21st September revisits the writings of Victorian poet and journalist Hugh MacDonald (1817 – 1860).
Free but places are limited – BOOK HERE.
His best-loved work was Rambles Round Glasgow (1854), a collection of walks through areas that were largely on the periphery and beyond of Glasgow but which are now mostly within city limits.
MacDonald’s many trips to the southside took him to the villages of Strathbungo, Old Cathcart and New Cathcart and the thriving town of Pollokshaws; to Govan, Crookston and beyond. On his travels, he visited the famous Crossmyloof Bakery, met up with Robert Burns’ daughter, and saw the location of Mary Queen of Scots’ fateful last battle.
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Our guest speaker Karen Murdarasi spent a year painstakingly annotating MacDonald’s 21 Rambles to make them accessible to the modern reader, and to give an indication of what has survived – and what has been lost – from the scenes that MacDonald describes.
She will take you on a walk through the southside as you’ve never seen it before, filled with country estates and cottage gardens – instead of tenements, highrises and shopping throroughfares – and populated by weavers, poets and even scandalous clergymen.
The talk will be followed by a short Q&A
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Signed copies of the 21st Century Edition of Rambles Round Glasgow (Hephaestion Press; new Introduction & Annotated edition, 2023) will be available for purchase after the talk.
Note: CASH ONLY purchase (no cards) ~ £15 hardback / £10 paperback
TICKETS
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VENUE: The Deepend Govanhill Baths Community Trust, 21 Nithsdale St, Glasgow, G41 2PZ
EVENT TIMINGS:
6.50pm – Doors Open / Registration
7pm – Welcome & Main Presentation: Rambles Round the Southside in the 1850s
8.15 – Ends
[Header image: The Shaw Mill (old postcard) The Glasgow Story © National Trust for Scotland. The large goose, bottom left, is a scrap attached to the painting by an unknown person.]
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