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However, it was also hoped the Exhibition would raise enough money for a much-needed museum, art gallery and school of art in the city. The exhibition was opened by the Prince of Wales, as honorary president of the exhibition, on 8 May 1888. It was the greatest exhibition held outside London and the largest ever in Scotland during the 19th century.
With a large single storey extension added to its north, the building housed the Glasgow East-End Industrial Exhibition, which opened on 23 December 1890, to support establishment of a People's Palace in the east end of Glasgow. [12] The East End Exhibition Buildings were converted into a 7,000 seat theatre for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show ...
31 October – opening of Hampden Park football ground in Glasgow. [8] 9 December – opening of Glasgow East End Industrial Exhibition. [9] Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses: Construction of Scalasaig Light on Colonsay (Inner Hebrides; by David Alan Stevenson) and navigation light on Lady Isle (Firth of Clyde).
The Glasgow International Exhibition was the second of 4 international exhibitions held in Glasgow, Scotland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition took place during a period of half-mourning requested by Edward VII [ 1 ] but was still popular and made more than £35000 profit. [ 2 ]
A new permanent exhibition in Kelvingrove Museum has opened exploring Glasgow's links to slavery.
In 1895 he set up practice alone from his house at 11 Bothwell Street in Glasgow. He mainly worked on Glasgow tenements for a local building firm. In 1903 he came to some notice in the Glasgow East End Industrial Exhibition and began to receive more commissions including libraries, churches and church halls.
Glasgow also hosted the Industrial exhibitions as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. Glasgow's Mayfest started in 1983 from the popular success of the STUC-organised May Day Parades and became a citywide public festival, covering theatre, music, dance, and visual arts. It became the second largest arts festival in Britain until funding ...
Festival Tower of the Empire Exhibition 1938 Glasgow Night view of South Cascade at the Empire Exhibition 1938 in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow 1938 Empire Exhibition fountains centre in front of the Palace of Engineering in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow 1938 Empire Exhibition view along Kingsway in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, with the Palace of Industries on left and the United Kingdom Pavilion in ...