Greatest Glasgow Awards

28/02/2019

Happy Birthday The Pavilion Theatre!

One of the Winners of 2018 Best Glasgow Theatre by Greatest Glasgow Awards: https://bit.ly/2U1oyti

Designed by Bertie Crewe and opened on 29 February 1904 as a music hall at the corner of Renfield Street & Renfrew Street in 1904, is one of Glasgow’s oldest theatres and it has remained relatively unchanged.

The facade was designed in a French Renaissance style, using salmon-pink terracotta, and the interior features Rococo terrazzo flooring, lead light glazing and mahogany wood finish.

It is protected as a category A listed building and is the only privately run theatre in Scotland and one of a few independent theatres in the UK. The theatre mainly runs populist productions, variety plays, melodrama and pantomimes, as well as alternative comedians and touring bands on the ‘nostalgia’ circuit.

21/02/2019

Happy birthday Glasgow Queen Station!

This stunning piece of Glasgow history was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and opened on 21 February 1842. Now it is being transformed to be a modern and fully accessible transport hub.

24/12/2018

Happy Monday & Christmas everyone! Hope it's a good start to a brilliant week! 😃♥️

17/12/2018

This day in history:

William Thomson Lord Kelvin died. This Glasgow scientist and Professor at is known for the formulation of first and second laws of thermodynamics and absolute temperatures are in units of kelvon in his honour.

17/12/2018

Good Morning Glasgow, Christmas is approaching! Hope everyone has a good week! 😃

30/11/2018

Happy St.Andrew's day, Glasgow! ♥️

27/11/2018

This day in history: In 1927 automobile entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist Sir John Arnold Clark was born in .

Arnold Clark

20/10/2018

Help to save the People's Palace and Winter Gardens (one of our Winners of 2018 Glasgow Museum & 2018 Glasgow Glasshouse) from closure.

Glasgow City Council: Save the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens for the City of Glasgow

09/10/2018

On 9 October 1993, short time after his release from three decades in prison, Nelson Mandela came to Glasgow and in a speech said: "....a city 6,000 miles away, and as renowned as Glasgow, refused to accept the legitimacy of the apartheid system, and declared us to be free."

Nelson Mandela Foundation

02/10/2018

Happy Birthday PS Waverley!

Built on the Clyde and launched 2th October 1946 to work from Craigendoran Pier -near Helensburgh-, up Loch Long to Arrochar, currently it is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world.

Waverley Excursions The Waverley Paddle Steamer Paddle Steamer Preservation Society

17/09/2018

Mondays are a 1/7 of your life, so why not be happy? Be happy Glasgow, it's Monday!

25/08/2018

Did you know...? James Watt passed away on 25 August 1819

He was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist.

In 1765, walking on Glasgow Greeen. he conceived the idea of a separate condenser for the steam engine while out for a stroll -which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Scotland and the rest of the world.