Cumbernauld History Exhibition and Guided Walk

An exhibition about the social and architectural history of Cumbernauld will take place at Cumbernauld Community Enterprise Centre. Cumbernauld residents can also bring their photos of the town for Scotland’s Urban Past to scan for Historic Environment Scotland’s official record.

We’re also asking Cumbernauld residents to bring their own photos of the town along to the exhibition to share. The Scotland’s Urban Past team will be there on the 24th to scan these photos in to Historic Environment Scotland’s official record of the built environment .

The exhibition itself will look at Cumbernauld from it’s inception, as the result of mass overcrowding in Glasgow, and the vision of Cumbernauld as a New Town and a site of opportunity for residents and businesses alike. Using photographs, advertising material, letters and plans from the 1950s through to the 1990s, visitors can explore the ways in which the town was envisioned and run by the Cumbernauld Development Corporation, as well as shaped and experienced by those who made the move there.

The exhibition will pay special attention to the work of Brian Miller, Cumbernauld’s town artist from 1962, and the public art which he created, much of which has now disappeared.

On the 24th September 2016, Tower Block will be putting on a free exhibition about the social and architectural history of Cumbernauld in Cumbernauld Community Enterprise Centre (12 – 5pm).

Cumbernauld resident Jean O’Reilly will also be running guided local history walks from the exhibition. These will run at 12:30 (for 2 hours) and 3:30pm (for 1 hour), and give an insight in to the history of Cumbernauld’s development and social history over the second half of the twentieth century.