Talks
Pollokshields Heritage hosts a range of talks which explore local history and heritage as well as arts and culture. These run throughout the year.
Pollokshields Heritage hosts a range of talks, which explore history and heritage as well as arts and culture. They run from November to April and everyone is welcome.
They are held at the Georgeson Room of the Fotheringay Centre, 63 Fotheringay Road, G41 4NN (view map). Nearest train station is Maxwell Park.
Time: 7.30pm start. Doors from 7pm.
Tickets: £6.00 with refreshments, no booking necessary. Cash and card payments accepted.
Upcoming talks from November 2024 to April 2025
Tuesday 22 April 2025, 7:30pm, registration and reception from 7pm
Annual General Meeting
This year's Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 7.30pm at the Fotheringay Centre, Fotheringay Road, G41 4NN. Registration and reception from 7pm.
The present eight trustees of the charity's management Board have indicated they are willing to be re-appointed for a further year. However, the trustees always welcome expressions of interest from residents willing to join the Board, succession being a priority for the charity's continuance. Please contact a trustee at any time through the PH website contact page or contact the secretary@pollokshieldsheritage.org.uk.
The AGM will be immediately followed with the talk below starting at 8pm. Non-members are welcome to attend the AGM as observers prior to the talk.
Tuesday 22 April 2025, 8:00pm
Refitting Tenements
John Gilbert Architects has a long history of working on and repairing tenements as well as retrofitting them. Kirstin Mackenzie will talk about the repair and retrofit of tenements recently undertaken by the practice and provide insight on how the firm approaches these projects. As we deal with the climate emergency, JGA has shown it is possible to repair and retrofit these properties without damaging their significance, making them fit for the future.
View the presentation slides here.
About Kirstin Mackenzie
Kirstin Mackenzie is a registered architect in South Africa and practises as a Heritage Consultant in Scotland. She specialises in conservation, completing the MSc in Architectural Design for the Conservation of Built Heritage at Strathclyde University in 2021. She ran her own conservation architecture practice and heritage consultancy in Cape Town, South Africa and has worked at John Gilbert Architects (JGA) since graduating. At JGA she has worked on A listed buildings such as Provands Lordship, the Gallery of Modern Art and 121 West George Street as well as other B and C listed and traditional buildings in conservation areas. She has also presented at various conferences and last year was the Rapporteur on the ICOMOS CIF Symposium on the 60th Anniversary of the Venice Charter.
Previous talks in 2024
Tuesday 18 February 2025
Dwell, Dine and Design
At the Hill House – Mackintosh and MacDonald fused architecture and artistry to create a happy family home for the Blackie family. But the technical and fabric problems of the construction emerged relatively shortly after its completion in 1904. In 2019 the Box was erected to cover and allow time for the its considered repair. The presentation will cover the planned conservation works at the Hill House, the Trust's second Mackintosh property since the acquisition in January 2024 of the Mackintosh Tea Rooms - on Sauchiehall St.
About Liz Davidson
Liz Davidson is Project Director at the Hill House, Mackintosh’s finest domestic design still open to the public under the National Trust for Scotland. Liz began her career in conservation at Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee, moving to the Scottish Civic Trust and then as Director of the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust organised the UK’s first Doors Open Day in 1990. From 2001 Liz was Head of City Design and Conservation for Glasgow City Council, before being appointed at Glasgow School of Art to lead the restoration of the Mackintosh building after the 2014 fire.
Tuesday 21 January 2025
Glasgow’s Ghost Industry: Industrial Ceramic Manufacture and Trade
Ruth will describe the history of the ceramic manufacture and trade in Glasgow and surrounding areas.
About Ruth Impey
Ruth Impey is a maker and creative producer working from her studio in Glasgow, where she makes ceramics and develops a range of projects using the project development, maker-tutor and heritage & museum skills practised over the course of her career. Her practice is founded on the principle of making’s ability to assemble alternative relationships between objects, people and the wider world. She is Co-Director of Make It Glasgow community interest company and founder of the Scottish Pottery Museum.
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Scottish Cinemas – a short history
Join us for a whirlwind tour showing how Scotland’s cinemas developed from the early days of music halls, tents and makeshift spaces to the grand picture palaces of the 1930s. See how these buildings brought a wee touch of exotic colour from places like Turkey or Egypt and how the multiplex triggered a revival that sees the whole story coming full circle, with a special focus on the cinemas of the Southside.
About Gary Painter
Gary Painter was a student of Archaeology and Scottish History at Glasgow University when he got a part-time job in the city’s Odeon Cinema. One day, an old projectionist showed him photos of the building in its heyday and thus began two decades of looking for architectural fragments of these lost pleasure palaces, now largely demolished or repurposed unsympathetically. In 2001, he co-founded the scottishcinemas.org project, containing now over 1000 buildings.
Read this Sunday Post article on Gary’s work.
Tuesday 23 April 2024
AGM followed by Alison Brown’s talk entitled Miss Catherine Cranston's tearooms, design collaborations with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and stories of Glasgow’s southside.
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Professor Francis Fowle’s talk entitled Art and Industry: Glasgow’s ‘merchant princes’ and Impressionism.
Tuesday 16 January 2024
Mark Mitchell ‘s talk entitled Archaeological investigation in Pollok Country Park.
Our talks take place at The Fotheringay Centre, 63 Fotheringay Road, G41 4NN.
Tickets on the door.