It was a terrible night for the city 😢
This time, it was a city landmark engulfed in flames. St Andrew’s Halls on Granville Street was a much-loved building with a longIn the early 1870s, Glasgow was growing and expanding westwards, yet none of its existing venues, such as the City Halls, Queen’s Rooms and the Trades’ Hall, could offer a capacity in the thousands.In order to make public entertainment and improvement more accessible to those living in the west of the city, a group of private citizens banded together in 1875.
These were a pair of statues whose classical namesake in Greek mythology, Atlas, was doomed the carry the Earth on his shoulders. Another family member, John Mossman, sculpted figures for the four large plinths along the frontage at Granville Street. The Corporation invested more than £6000 into updating, improving and decorating the halls, transforming it into one of their flagship public venues.Promotional material for the halls held in our collections illustrates how large they had grown by 1902.
Amongst James Maxton’s papers is a copy of his speech in favour of a Scottish Parliament which he delivered at the Halls in 1924.
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