For all your Glasgow links

Home

About My City

Interesting facts

My City

Reference sites   (museums, arts, libraries, collections)

Glasgow's Story

A venture by Glasgow University, this site tells Glasgow's story through the centuries and has many photographs and historical pieces cover all aspects of life in Glasgow through the ages

Read Glaswegian's memories in the sister website

Virtual Mitchell

Want to see the street you lived in years ago?  Or where your Granny came from?  Or what was in the street before those new flats were built?  This website is what you want.  It's a wonderful archive of photos of Glasgow and it is listed by Area or by Street.  Absolutely superb!

Glasgow Digital Library

Organised digital collections to support teaching, learning and research.  Sounds boring, but it isn't... try it and see.

Glasgow Building and Preservation Trust

Says it all, really.... 

Statistical Accounts of Scotland

With links to national Archives of Scotland etc

Glasgow Collection

This link takes you to information about how to use the Glasgow Collection, a rich source of information relating to Glasgow held in the Mitchell Library.  The majority of the collection is paper-based and includes:  books, maps, newspapers, periodicals, engravings, postcards, photos, paintings, directories and theatre and music hall programmes and playbills. 

Glasgow Guide

A guide to everything in Glasgow, including ‘What’s On’ and discussion forums.  A wealth of information.

Hidden Glasgow 

This site has forums and chat rooms devoted to issues involving Glasgow.  You are free to browse or to register to join in and have your opinion heard

Places to visit

Things to do

Fun stuff

Architecture

Reference

Glasgow Areas

My favourites

Glasgow books

Newspapers

Transport

Glasgow City Council

If you are looking for something to do with the day-to-day running of the City, you should find it here.

To contact us: email mycityglasgow@yahoo.co.uk

SCRAN

Scran is a charity and online learning resource base funded by the Scottish Government.  It has thousands of images from museums, archives and media.  You can view thumbnail images and descriptions for free, but full membership entitles you to see much more.

UK Web Archiving Consortium

This site ‘does what it says on the tin’.  The link below will take you into the screen returned after searching for ‘history’.  Once you have chosen the subject, you can then link to the publishers site by clicking on those words.  Although not specifically Glasgow, I thought it worth including because of the fantastic amount of informative websites listed.

Origin and History of Glasgow Street Names

Another of Gordon Adams’s sites, this one lists the origin of Glasgow street names as in the book by Hugh Macintosh in his 1902 book of that name,

Glasgow books and articles

Gordon Adams has placed some old books relating to Glasgow  and its history on-line at this location.

Glasgow Humane Society

The Glasgow Humane Society was set up in 1790 after a wealthy Glasgow Merchant named James Coulter left the Faculty of Surgeons £200 in his Will for that purpose.

1901 Glasgow International Exhibition 

- part of the University of Glasgow’s Special Collections.  Official guide and daily programmes of this extremely successful exhibition.

The Blitz on Clydeside

Photographs, personal memories and background of the destruction caused by the Luftwaffe.  Mainly highlights Maryhill and Clydebank, where, of course, the destruction was at its worst.

Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital history

The history of Glasgow’s homoeopathic hospital as reproduced from a booklet published by the hospital in 1953

Annan’s photographs of Old Glasgow

Home of the Annan collection of photographs of Old Glasgow dating from 1855—a treat to browse through, and thoughtfully listed by subject.

Renamed Glasgow Streets

This site is a great source of information on Glasgow Streets which have had a change of name over the years.  Usually this happened because Glasgow had annexed another borough and there were duplicate names.   Douglas Brown has set out on his site all the streets that were renamed up until 1937/38. 

Scottish Mining

Jim Rouse created his website to provide an online resource for those researching Scottish mining ancestors and to share information and stories.  The site encompasses much more than his own family and is rich in detail of conditions, pits and history.

Glasgow Pottery

Henry E. Kelly, an expert on Glasgow pottery, has written a book about Bells Pottery, probably the most famous pottery in these parts.  The book is downloadable by chapter at his site, using Adobe.  It is most informative and has many illustrations of Old Glasgow and places still in existence connected with the Bell family and pottery.  You can also buy the book at the site.

Glasgow Poorhouses

Poorhouses, workhouses and other institutions are discussed and pictured on this website.  There are also useful links to where archives and other information is held.

Evening Times Roll of Honour WW1

Did any of your relatives serve during the First World War?  If the family supplied information to the newspaper, they will appear in this list—and sometimes there will be a photograph.  This link is to the Roll (supplied in PDF format) through the Glasgow Council website.  Good luck.

Scottish Screen—Film Archive

A super site with archived films relating to all areas of Scotland.  This link takes you straight to the Glasgow list, but explore the other gems in the archive.

Glimpses of Old Glasgow— Part of the digital library collection

An alphabetic list by subject of aspects of Old Glasgow and its people—click on the subject which interests you to learn more.

Old Glasgow Club Transactions

The Old Glasgow Club published many of the talks given at the Club over many years.  The Club has put an index of their contents on-line—follow the link.   These Transactions are kept and can be read at Level 2 of the Mitchell Library. 

Valentines postcards archive

Valentines postcards are well-known for their views and scenes of areas in past times.  Their archive is held by St Andrews University.  This link takes you to the archive of those listed for a ‘Glasgow City’ search.

Old Glasgow Maps

From the National Library of Scotland, a list of the maps they have of Glasgow.  Click on the one you want and you can zoom in and out for detail.

Internet Archive

This wonderful resource was pointed out to me by a kind person from the Glesga Pals forum.  It is an archive of media, including books.  This link takes you to the booklist for Glasgow and you are able to read any of these books online.

The Clyde

Lots of pictures of all the comings and goings on the Clyde, including ships, ferries, docks and past times.  Choose your subject from the drop-down menu.

Glasgow Stories

This website was set up in remembrance of those who served in World Wars I and II and features recordings of interviews with old soldiers in Flanders House (a veterans home) in  the late 1970s.

Aye Ready—Strathclyde Fire Brigade Preservation Group

Everything you ever wanted to know about the said group, including the stations, the tenders, the fire-fighting equipment and how they intend to set up a permanent museum for all the equipment they have managed to save and preserve from fire-fighting through the years.   Great pictures and lots of history.

Glasgow Central Fire Station History (now at Cowcaddens)

The history of Glasgow Central Fire Station—which is now situated in Cowcaddens and has a wonderful tour and display of equipment on ‘Doors Open Day’ every year.

West End Addresses

This is an on-going project by Douglas Clar to show who lived at any address in the West End of Glasgow over the years,