The Old Glasgow Club Talks
The Old Glasgow Club hosts regular talks and occasional events for people interested in Glasgow, its environs, its history and its people!
About The Old Glasgow Club Talks
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13th November 2025 11th December 2025 8th January 2026 plus 3 more date(s), see below for more info |
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| 7pm for 7.30pm - allowing time for tea/coffee and a chat | |
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The Renfield Centre 260 Bath Street, Glasgow City Centre G2 4HZ |
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| £8 for visitors / Free to members | |
| Visit the event website here | |
| Facebook information can be found here |
The Old Glasgow Club was established in 1900 and still going strong !! The Lord Provost is our Honorary President. Soon to be our 125th Anniversary
We host monthly talks all with a Glasgow connection, by a wide variety of individuals in the church space of the Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street at 7.00pm for 7.30pm. Start the evening with tea/coffee and a chat.
In Glasgow's 850th year - come along and find out more about the past, present and future of our city!
Entry is £5 per talk. Should you chose to join the Old Glasgow Club, this will be deducted from the annual membership fee of £35.
Upcoming 2025/26 Programme:
11th September: The Dear Green Place - Paul Moore
Paul Moore is a playwright whose timescale of inspiration parallels the 'Glimpses of Old Glasgow' talk given to the club in January 1901 - and it's the time that many of us recall as our youth. We're talking about getting a 'dizzy' at Boots Corner, wild nights in Clatty Pat's, Paddy's Market and its closing, the Provy Wummin chappin' the door and the city's hero Benny Lynch...
9th October: The People's Palace - Peter Mortimer
OGC's connections with The People's Palace, which opened in 1898, go back to the formation of the club with at least three of its curators being Club Directors. So, what better connection for us to make than have Peter Mortimer former Club President look back at the beginnings of this long relationship.
13th November: The Secrets of Blythswood Square - Sara Sheridan
More than a few people have written books about, or set in, the Blythswood area of the city but Sara Sheridan is perhaps unique in writing a 'Blythswood' mystery set in the era in which the Old Glasgow Club was born. It's intriguing that the 'Secrets... ' she unveils might even be the secrets of some of our early members - you might want to check if your forebearers' names are mentioned...
11th December: The Southern Necropolis - Colin Mackie
Colin Mackie is constantly turning up new facts and connections around The Southern Necropolis - is he going to find a whole troop of early mebers interred there - or maybe people who might have wanted to be members... Some early meetings were held in the Saracen's Head Hotel so, you know, they might have been...
8th January: The Hutcheson Story - Julie Devenny
George and Thomas Hutcheson were great benefactors of the city. Their names are spoken whenever Hutcheson's Hospital (now Hall) is said and when Hutcheson's Grammar School is mentioned. Julie Devenny is the school's archivist and will lead us through it's development from 'a school for poor boys' to the dynamic success it is today.
12th February: Glasgow Policing - Alastair Dinsmor
In 2008 The Metropolitan Police was ordered to remove its claim that it was the oldest police force in the world. That claim, by right, was Glasgow's. In 1800 Glasgow achieved an Act of Parliament enabling the establishment of a force and the city appointed John Stenhouse to organise and recruit the officers. The Met was set up 29 years later. Alastair Dinsmor leads Glasgow's Police Museum.
12th March: Doon the Water on the Waverley - Iain Quinn
'Doon the Water' meant something different to the OGC members of 1906. In that summer they chartered a yacht, The Jupiter, to visit the newly opened Ardkinglas estate on the shores of Loch Fyne. We live in different times and for modern members 'Doon the Water' is linked only to The Waverley. Iain Quinn is its historian.
9th April: This is My Glasgow - Colin M Drysdale
A man, a camera and a passion, Colin M Drysdale traipses round the city looking up, looking down, looking over, looking under and even looking between - the results are 'This is My Glasgow', the much followed Facebook page, and now this new book Glasgow Uncovered - Eighteen Walks Through its Past, Present and Future.
Additional Dates: 11 December 2025, 08 January 2026, 12 February 2026, 12 March 2026, 09 April 2026
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