Glasgow
Step into the shadows of wartime Glasgow. Beginning at the bold, modernist Beresford Hotel on Sauchiehall Street, on the very night the blackout finally lifted, we’ll drift through the City Centre toward Argyll Street, tracing how six years of enforced darkness reshaped the city’s streets - and the lives lived upon them.
For ninety minutes, the Glasgow you know will fall away. In its place rises a city plunged into a pre industrial night, where streetlamps vanished, department store windows - once bright showcases - disappeared into darkness, leaving the city’s grand shopfronts mute and lightless and every journey after dusk became an act of careful choreography.
Facilities
Additional Access Information
On our walk through the city centre I stop at locations where there is outdoor seating, I always ask if anyone would like a seat/rest while I talk.
Key Information
Booking is required.
For full event details and how to book tickets, please click this link below - you will then be transferred directly to this event listing on the Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival website:
Walking Through the Blackout - Glasgow’s Darkened City, 1939–1945
Where to find us
Address
- Meeting Point: Civic Heart Retail Style Mile in Merchant City
- Glasgow
- G2 3LW