Welcome Back - Opening Day
Glasgow City Archives ZOOLIFE
We’re letting our wild side out today for #ExploreYourArchive #WildArchives! Roooar! These images of fierce animals are from ZOOLIFE, the Calderpark Zoo magazines which were very recently donated to us.
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Glasgow City Archives Burial Records
Last action shot today for #ActionArchives is the records of the Southern Necropolis! We hold records of cemeteries and crematoria in the city and you can find out more about accessing these records at: https://bit.ly/2VC5Auc
Glasgow Gaels Display
More #ActionArchives, here's an action shot of our Glasgow Gaels display. This small display celebrates the return of the Mod to Glasgow in October this year. The exhibition runs until the 31st of December and is free to visit during Archive opening hours.
Glasgow Poor Law
#ActionArchives, here's an action shot of our Glasgow poor relief records. Glasgow City Archives houses about one million applications for poor relief to Glasgow Parishes in about 5,000 volumes. Through these records you discover vital clues about your family’s history and reveal details of their daily lives.
Find out more at: https://bit.ly/2OdvjIs
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Glasgow City Archives Card Index
Here's our card index action in the archive searchroom! #ActionArchives #ExploreYourArchives
You kind find anything and everything listed in this index but for more help with tracing Glasgow ancestors visit our family history website at: https://bit.ly/33gcQPW
Council Minutes
Today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme is #ActionArchives 🎥 so we thought we’d share some action shots from Glasgow City Archives. First up, here’s the Corporation Minutes for the city in action!
We hold Council Minutes dating from 1574 and some are openly accessible in the archive searchroom. Find out more about our collections here: https://bit.ly/2NZUz30
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Glasgow City Archives Mass X-ray campaign
#WorldXRayDay
World Radiography Day marks the anniversary in 1895 of the discovery of the X-ray. To mark this day we have footage from Glasgow's mass anti-tuberculosis X-ray campaign of 1957.
George Square was the location for a temporary pavilion housing two X-ray units. The intensive mass radiography survey took place over a five week period in March and April, 1957. It was organised by Glasgow Corporation and the Western Regional Hospital Board in co-operation with the Department of Health for Scotland and the Scottish Information Office. 714,915 people were X-rayed at the thirty-seven mobile units, a much higher response than had been anticipated. The extensive publicity surrounding the campaign was carried out with the help of employers and local celebrities. Films, advertisements, posters, stickers, badges, loudspeakers mounted on vans and even on an aeroplane, together with a prize draw, contributed to the campaign's success.
Glasgow City Archives Halloween
Nothing to see here just some gents outside their place of business.
Hang on, what's that in the window...
AAAAGGHHHHHH!
🎃Happy Halloween from Glasgow City Archives🎃
#Halloween2019
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Rogano Glasgow
One of the city’s oldest restaurants, Rogano 🦞 Styled after the interior of the Cunard liner the Queen Mary, built on the Clyde by John Brown & Co of Clydebank, the art deco oyster bar has been in operation for over 80 years since 1935.
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Maryhill Crematorium
Behind the Scenes at Glasgow City Archives 👀
Sneak peek of the records of Maryhill Crematorium held in our store here at GCA. Maryhill or Glasgow Crematorium is the city's oldest crematorium with registers dating from 13 April 1895. When it opened, Maryhill was only the third crematorium across the UK. #Glasgow
Fruit Cargoes, Yorkhill Quay, 1926
Fruit cargoes at Yorkhill Quay, 1926. Robert McAlpine & Sons built Yorkhill Quay for the Clyde Navigation Trust between 1907 and 1909. Anchor Line transferred its New York passenger liner berths from Stobcross to Yorkhill once it opened and continued to use Yorkhill Quay until the 1960s.
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Clyde Lighthouses Trust
It’s #LighthousesDay!
Here at #GCA we hold the records of the Clyde Lighthouses Trust, one of the oldest bodies in the UK concerned with safe navigation 🌊 Originally the Cumray Lighthouse Trust, the Clyde Lighthouses Trust was established with the passage of the Clyde Lighthouses Act of 1871. Lighthouse trustees accepted responsibility for lighting and buoying remote lochs of the Clyde Estuary along with maintaining the fare way for deep sea vessels. In 1966, the Clyde Navigation Trust, the Greenock Harbour Trust and the Clyde Lighthouses Trust came together to form the Clyde Port Authority.
The collection includes minute books and news cutting volumes like this one!
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Barnhill Hospital Staff, March 1897
Barnhill hospital staff, March 1897
The Barony Parish Poorhouse was founded in 1853 and a separate purpose-built hospital building was added in 1880. Like other Poor Law hospitals, Barony relied heavily on unpaid and untrained inmates to perform nursing duties. However, by 1881 Barnhill employed five nurses and a female superintendent with a strict code of regulations regarding duties, timetables, and training.
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Corporation road washing machine, 1950
Corporation road washing machine in Pollokshaws, c. 1950
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Opening of new flats in Hutchesontown., c1960. Can you help identify their location? (Archive Ref: P1217-9)
Interior views of one of Glasgow's old steamies, c1960 (Archive Ref: P1145-8)
Wonderful wedding cakes made by Harry Fyfe, baker, Bridgeton. The image shows Harry, his foreman and the apprentice in c.1900. #ediblearchives #ExploreArchives