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"Turn your walk into a herstory treasure hunt". Wherever you are in the world, share examples from your walks of street art and landmarks which celebrate women. Tag with @womenslibrary and #WomenMakeHistory. https://womenslibrary.org.uk/2020/06/09/turn-your-walk-into-a-herstory-treasure-hunt/
Turning a walk into a @womenslibrary herstory treasure hunt are these gateposts from North Kelvinside School. The school was demolished and replaced with housing about 20 years ago, but the gateposts marked Girls (and Boys) remain. #WomenMakeHistory
North Park House was once Queen Margaret College (1883), Scotland's first higher education college for women. Called after Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots (c1045-1093) the name lives on in Glasgow Universityâs QM Union and Residences. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
The old buildings at Gartnavel Royal Hospital were once the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum (ugh). There are interesting carved heads at the entrances. These two women represent for me every woman who passed through the doors. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
A redo of yesterdayâs #WomenMakeHistory tweet because I forgot to add it to the thread! This is outside the Womenâs Centre in Maryhill.
Street art from opposite ends of the city for todayâs @womenslibrary #WomenMakeHistory post. In the west, a woman kneels amongst flowers. In the east, another woman cradles her child. This is a modern day representation of St Mungo and his mother, St Enoch (aka Thenue).
Every summer for the last few years, the daughter of artist Rita McGurn has yarnbombed this bench in Glasgow Botanic Gardens in memory of her mother. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary Learn more here: http://glasgowwestend.today/2017/04/08/bench/
This impressive grave in the Western Necropolis focuses on paterfamilias David Walker, Principal of Belgravia College, Glasgow. What's that I wondered? A college for "young ladies", is the answer, another #WomenMakeHistory fact learned! @womenslibrary http://glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1891_Book/Belgravia_College.htm
Iâm always on the lookout for public art by women, so I love these two colourful murals by Sharon Scotland. One on the canal at Ruchill, the other in the Childrenâs Wood, North Kelvinside #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
This health worker by Rebel Bear, as seen in Ashton Lane, featured in the original @womenslibrary blogpost about #WomenMakeHistory. Iâm pairing her with a nurse on a window in Maryhill Park expressing solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter 
Tramping the same routes in lockdown makes me look at local buildings more closely. These female faces look out from a house not 10 minutes away, but in 27 years Iâve not noticed them before. Who or what do they represent? I wish I knew. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
More women on buildings today, this time Partick Burgh Hall: three reliefs by William Mossman II of idealised figures representing mercy, justice and truth. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
Even more women on buildings tonight! This time all libraries. Maryhill is from a lockdown walk, Woodside and Govanhill are from a while back. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
Yet more women on buildings! We may only have statues to 4 named women in Glasgow, but there are a lot of unnamed (usually idealised and stylised) female figures about. This current crop of muses are @KelvingroveArt #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
A few more women on buildings, then Iâll change theme! Back to @KelvingroveArt for St Mungo flanked by two women, a carved head on North Park House, and the Virgin Mary who is celebrated in many places, in this case the former Notre Dame Convent. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
The former Queenâs Rooms, now a Hindu Temple, featured on @LostGlasgow earlier, so I thought it would be a good choice for todayâs #WomenMakeHistory post. A celebration took place here on 20th April 1918 after the planting of the Suffrage Oak nearby on Kelvin Way @womenslibrary
Itâs also an opportunity to repost this excellent article by @yvonne_mcfadden on the planting of the Suffrage Oak #WomenMakeHistory
http://womenshistoryscotland.org/2018/04/19/the-suffrage-oak-marking-100-years-of-women-living-and-growing-into-the-body-politic/
http://womenshistoryscotland.org/2018/04/19/the-suffrage-oak-marking-100-years-of-women-living-and-growing-into-the-body-politic/
#WomenMakeHistory goes to school today! In the west end, the gates of Westbourne School for Girls are still there, although the building is now housing. In the east end, the girls entrance to the old City Public School in St James Road could do with some tlc! @womenslibrary
Maggie Keswick Jencks used her own experience of having cancer to create a new type of cancer care. The first Maggie's Centre opened in Edinburgh in 1996. I often pass the Maggies on Dumbarton Road and at Gartnavel Hospital. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
Partick and Whiteinch War Memorial in Victoria Park is surmounted by a winged figure of Victory - a bronze female figure with outspread wings standing on a globe and holding out a wreath with both hands. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
More monumental figures today, this time on Kelvin Way Bridge. On each corner is a parapet with a lamp and a pair of figures representing concepts such as Peace and War and Navigation and Shipbuilding. Interestingly, 5 of the 8 figures are female. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
Anniesland Tower from Dawsholm Park. Theories about the areaâs name include: it was once rented annually; there was a hospice nearby (Gaelic for destitute is annis); it belonged to someone called Annie. I prefer the last theory! #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
Mary Hill (1730-1809) gave her name to Maryhill. She owned the Gairbraid Estate - there is still a Gairbraid Avenue at the end of which @maryhill_halls now stands. Sheâs buried with her husbandâs family, the Grahams, in Glasgow Cathedral grounds. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
Outside @maryhill_halls (shown yesterday) Star Map, an art work created by WAVEparticle, incorporates a constellation of names, many of women, of the âgreat and the goodâ of Maryhill. What a lovely way to be recognised! #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
More Maryhill names today. These are on the pathway by the canal at Kelvin Dock, where Swan & Co built boats from the 1840s to the 1940s. Some had female names. Not sure who Flora was called after (MacDonald?) , but I bet I know who Victoria was! #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
A wee rest from my own photos today - hereâs an update from @womenslibrary on some of the other #WomenMakeHistory posts that have come in from elsewhere in Scotland, England, Canada and New Zealand! https://womenslibrary.org.uk/2020/07/03/60692/
Thanks to @BeckyDouglas, @tinakover, @DonnaConnolly58, @CatherineMacP12, @WinchesterHods, @aldhammer, @scattyscribbler and @suleslie for their suggestions and the use of some of their pictures.
Last visit to Maryhill for my @womenslibrary #WomenMakeHistory thread. Iâm not sure what this stone marked Mary G signifies. Mary Hillâs married name (Graham)? Her estateâs name (Gairbraid)? Does it refer to someone else entirely? Perhaps @maryhill_halls can help!
Came across Jacqueline Donachieâs 3 artworks this week as part of @TrailsandTales1 - Irene (Kirkintilloch), Jessie (Lennoxtown) and Elsie (Westerton) represent women in health and medicine who have associations with East Dunbartonshire. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
Time to take a tour of the 4 statues to named women in Glasgow. A young Queen Victoria rides her horse in George Square. But that woman gets around - here's an older version above a door at the Royal Infirmary. More to follow tomorrow ⌠#WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
As I said yesterday, Queen Victoria gets around. Just type Victoria into Google Maps! And how about these splendidly ornate gates to Victoria Park? They celebrate her Golden Jubilee in 1887. #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
Last word on Queen Victoria. Her actual name doesnât have to be present for her to be there - think of places like Queensborough Gardens and Queenâs Gate (now Dowanhill Street). And have you noticed how many VR postboxes still exist? #WomenMakeHistory @womenslibrary
