WALK: Glasgow Through the Ages IV - The Gilded City

Meeting point: The Lighthouse,�11 Mitchell Lane, G1 3NU

Join Niall Murphy of Glasgow City Heritage Trust on a tour showing how Glasgow evolved from the age of�the Scottish Enlightenment and as a result of the innovative works of the Glasgow City Improvement Trust.

Please note the tour lasts approximately 2 hrs with a looped route stretching from the Lighthouse through Central Station to Bothwell, Hope, Renfield, West George, St Vincent and Buchanan Streets via Nelson Mandela Place, George Square, and St Vincent Place before concluding at the Lighthouse. Highlights include Central Station, James Salmon�s �Hatrack� and Mercantile Chambers, J Gaff Gillespie�s Scottish Temperance Building, CR Mackintosh�s Glasgow Record Building, William Leiper�s Sun Life Building, Greek Thomson�s Grosvenor Buildings, JA Campbell�s Hope Street Alcazar, Sir JJ Burnet and James Miller�s American influenced commercial buildings. See Glasgow�s most public IOU and the apprentice�s touching tribute to his master; the sculptor who helped those scarred by the Great War; the War Criminal�s prison; the hidden influence of the Vienna Secession; Glasgow�s skyscraper race; the links between Glasgow and New York; Roman Baths and Venetian Palaces; a stone Dreadnought; the influence of the Chicago World�s Fair; and Beaux Arts and Glasgow Baroque masterpieces.