TALK: Glasgow At A Glance

Norry Wilson, curator of the Lost Glasgow Facebook page, uses archive snaps to take a sideways look at Glasgow, its architecture, people, and places. An idiosyncratic, and illuminating glimpse of our city�s history.

Using 'Glasgow At A Glance', Andrew McLaren Young and AM Doak's 1965 architectural guide, as a starting point, this illustrated talk aims to make you look closer, linger longer, and think more deeply about the people, places and buildings that shape our experience of the city. From the grand and gracious, to the mundane and humble, every corner of Glasgow echoes to the footsteps of history. Drawing on images from a variety of photographic archives, both public and private, journalist and historian Norry Wilson teases out the hidden histories, tall tales, myths and legends which go together to form the warp and weft of Glasgow's unique human 'tartan'. One part memory lane, one part psycho-geographical ramble, this is a visual love letter to the Dear Green Place.

Andrew McLaren Young (1913-1975) was Richmond Professor of Fine Art at the University from 1965 to 1975.�Born in Argyllshire, Young was brought up in Jamaica and studied at (but did not graduate from) the University of Edinburgh. He served in the King's Own Yorkshire Infantry during the Second World War, in Burma, North Africa and Italy, and then joined the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham.�In 1949 he was invited to come to Glasgow to establish a Department of Fine Art and the University awarded him an honorary MA on his appointment to the Richmond Chair in 1965. He was an authority on the works of James McNeill Whistler and made important acquisitions of works of art which are now exhibited at the Hunterian Art Gallery.

For an extended biography of AM Doak follow this link:�http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=203472