Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is a free celebration of Glasgow’s architectural gems, with events, audio walking tours and activities for kids from 11th-17th September 2023. https://glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/ On Sunday 17th September 2023 1pm-4pm, we will have historical displays and videos, including a birds-eye view from the top of the Spire – we will also offer free refreshments tea, …
We’re participating in #GDODF22. Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is a free celebration of Glasgow’s architectural gems, with events, audio walking tours and activities for kids from 12th-18th September 2022. https://glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/ On Sunday 18th September 2022, 10am-2pm, we will offer free refreshments tea, coffee, juice and biscuits using the great facilities provided by our friends …
Birds-eye view – a photo taken from the Roystonhill Spire by our steeplejacks. Today we commemorate that on 8th June 1866 – 155 years ago – the church on Roystonhill opened. The view must have looked very different back then. What is now called Roystonhill Spire is the only remaining part of Townhead-Blochairn Parish Church, …
A Christmas look back at the interior of Townhead Blochairn church and its tree in 1974. Photos taken by Catherine Houston, and her father Rev Freddie Houston can be seen in one pic. You can browse this website to see more of the stained glass and history of the church. In 2020 Rosemount Development …
Rosemount Development Trust have distributed a small gift of a mosaic colouring book, coloured pencils and a selection box to children at the local primary schools and nurseries. The local history colouring book is now available for download for everyone – click the download link below: The “Royston Spire Park” colouring book features 12 original …
These great photos taken in 1966 during the M8 motorway construction show Roystonhill Spire and St.Joseph’s Home, from Alexandra Parade. The M8 covered the route of the Monkland Canal. One canal bridge can still be seen near the motorway, where Castle Street meets Royston Road. Thanks to The Glasgow Motorway Archive for sharing these pictures. …
On this day in 1866… 154 years ago, the church on Roystonhill was opened. Here’s a sneak preview of the history of Townhead Church from the forthcoming information boards commissioned by Rosemount Development Trust (and funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland and Rosemount Workspace) which will be sited in the Spire Park. A wee …
If you take a lockdown exercise in Glasgow Necropolis, then look out for the marking “J&G Mossman” on the base of many of the grave monuments. Mossman & Co were Glasgow’s greatest Victorian-era sculptors, and also made sculpted stone heads for Townhead-Blochairn church – now the Roystonhill Spire. Some of the very weathered remains of …
We think this might be the earliest photo of Roystonhill and the Spire – zoomed-in from an image of Glasgow Cathedral in 1893… 127 years ago! Do you know of any earlier pictures? Back then there was the Monkland Canal where the M8 motorway now runs, and the houses to the left of the spire …
For Valentine’s Day… the story of Royston’s rose “Where The Heart Is”. Back in 1997 a group of local people got together and managed to save the historically-important landmark Spire on Roystonhill. In 2001 the Spire became the centrepiece of a project which included a competition by artist Graham Fagen for local children to name …
