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A thing of beauty! 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟

the Coat of Arms: a commemorative plate created for the 850th anniversary of this great city, designed by the talented team at Make it Glasgow. Thank you to everyone who visited and supported the exhibition along the way. We’ll see you again in a couple of weeks for our next exhibition ❤️💛

Today we say goodbye to the Glasgow Coat of Arms exhibition 🐦🌳🔔🐟 It’s been a real pleasure to host the wonderful Dr Caroline Scott @glasgowcoa.bsky.social, who brilliantly brought together both this exhibition and the wider archive behind it. We’re closing with one of the newest interpretations of

Last day to catch the #Glasgow coat of arms exhibition at @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social 🐦🌳🔔🐟 Here's a few of the comments left by visitors:

Buchanan St, NAAFI Building up the hill, #Glasgow 1975. (Douglas McKerrell)

Yes, well, we all need a wee bit of down time! 😁🐦🌳🔔🐟

Must say I'm a bit starstruck that the designer of the #Glasgow800 logo visited our exhibition @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social! It's Mr Russell's design that sparked my interest as a child and my current fascination with the myriad variations on the coat of arms that exist 🤩🐦🌳🔔🐟

You never know who is gonna come through that door... Many visitors to the exhibition remember the famous Glasgow 800 mug from their school days... So today it was a lovely surprise to welcome Alexander Russell himself, the designer behind the iconic logo!

One (or three!) of my favourite contributions to the #Glasgow coat of arms archive, these photos from Paul Leinster of home-made multi-lingual banners spotted in Carment Street, Shawlands. Beautiful fabric CoAs with our motto, "Let Glasgow Flourish" in English, Urdu + Gaelic 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟

I'm very grateful to the Old Glasgow Cub for these additional images 👍🐦🌳🔔🐟. The Club's still going strong with the aim of, "enjoying and perpetuating the history of this great city, sharing and disseminating information worthy of permanent record for future historians"

An unusual and very interesting take on the #Glasgow coat of arms here on a bowling trophy, photo courtesy of the Old Glasgow Club 🐦🌳🔔🐟💍

It was an honour to welcome #Glasgow's LordProvost, Cllr Dr JacquelineMcLaren, to the exhibition yesterday. The ceremonial chain of office made an impressive addition to the many interpretations of the coat of arms on show @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social , even if it was just for an hour! 🐦🌳🔔🐟

We’re having an exciting week here with the Glasgow Coat of Arms exhibition! 🎖️ We were delighted to welcome the Lord Provost to the exhibition today, where we had an up-close look at the city’s ceremonial chain. Surprise! The exhibition will also be open this weekend during our community events.

#Glasgow 800th Anniversary Bus at North Hanover Street, 1975. (Urban Expeditions)

Springburn artist Mandy McIntosh on her knitting design: "I knitted the Glasgow Coat of Arms as a protest ... to remind myself + others that the stewardship of Glasgow's social history/material culture is constantly made and should be in the hands of people" 🐦🌳🔔🐟

It's incredible the variety of ways artists embrace + represent the symbols of the #Glasgow coat of arms. Here's Mandy McIntosh's jumper design incorporating the bird, tree, bell + fish, modeled here by Iona Macleod. One of the photos displayed @ the current @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social show 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Love this in the wee comments book at the exhibition. Thanks, Jane G.! 🥲🐦🌳🔔🐟

Delighted to finally meet Bella the beautiful Beither up at Stockingfield canal Bridge

You start to notice them once you look: carved in stone, tucked above doorways, or embedded in civic architecture across Glasgow. On Burnhouse Street, just around the corner from us, a Coat of Arms is carved onto the façade of the steamies. Dating to 1898, it reflects a time just seven years after

Got this cracking book during the week, full of incredible anecdotes. Opening line is "The City of Glasgow is undoubtedly the greatest city in the world." 💯

"The exhibition shows how public contributions have helped build a shared record of the symbol, reflecting a sense of collective ownership + civic pride ...the coat of arms featuring the bird, tree, fish + bell linked to St Mungo is presented ... as a living symbol rather than a fixed emblem" 🐦🌳🔔🐟

@glasgowcoa.bsky.social making the papers again.

😲 #Glasgow850 #Glasgow 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Visited today, and it is a splendid exhibition.

Honestly, once you start seeing the #Glasgow coat of arms you'll see it everywhere - only clocked this one yesterday. It forms part of the Trades House crest and is inside @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social, the location of our current show 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Delighted that Jo of @JoSunshineArt fame (on the other place) dropped by the #Glasgow coat of arms exhibition with a couple of her fab interpretations of the CoA. See them and about 200 other versions in @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social until 27th May 🎨🐦🌳🔔🐟

That's us all systems go at the @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social #Glasgow coat of arms exhibition! 🎉🐦🌳🔔🐟 I'll be here all day if anyone wants me to talk them through the exhibition boards though the photos do speak for themselves. Looking forward to seeing some of you!

That's us all systems go at the @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social #Glasgow coat of arms exhibition! 🎉🐦🌳🔔🐟 I'll be here all day if anyone wants me to talk them through the exhibition boards though the photos do speak for themselves. Looking forward to seeing some of you!

A taste of Tom Allan's lovely carved wooden sculpture that's a permanent feature in @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social. It complements the #Glasgow coat of arms exhibition of over 200 images and items that starts there tomorrow! #Maryhill #heritage #GlasgowHeritage

We’re so pleased to announce the next exhibition: 🐟🌳🔔🐦 Let Glasgow Flourish: The Glasgow Coat of Arms by Dr Caroline Scott The history of the Glasgow Coat of Arms is the history of Glasgow itself. Inspired by the stories of St Mungo, our patron saint, the city’s emblem has evolved over the years.

Look! That's wur foties on show @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social from Monday! Following the recent successful exhibition at The Deep End, I've added and refreshed a number of boards for this updated exhibition. Delighted & grateful to the Halls for this opportunity 🥰🐦🌳🔔🐟 #Maryhill #Glasgow #heritage

The bird, tree, bell and fish have appeared in many different forms over time with additions, omissions and adaptations shaping the familiar symbols we still see across the city today.

Look! That's wur foties on show @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social from Monday! Following the recent successful exhibition at The Deep End, I've added and refreshed a number of boards for this updated exhibition. Delighted & grateful to the Halls for this opportunity 🥰🐦🌳🔔🐟 #Maryhill #Glasgow #heritage

This exhibition features pictures contributed by Glaswegians -old and new- showing both familiar takes on historic versions of the City Arms and fresh, original designs. 📆 20 April – 27 May ⏰ Monday–Friday, 10am–5pm ✨ Keep an eye out for special weekend openings. @glasgowcoa.bsky.social

A @glasgowcoa.bsky.social in Stranraer Museum. It's a detail from a chest which was carved by a WW1 Belgian refugee and presented to Stranraer by the Glasgow Corporation Belgian Committee in thanks for their kindness in accommodating and welcoming such refugees.

Randolph, Elder & Co., Engineers & Ship Builders, Glasgow ⚓️🐦🌳🔔🐟

Anyone know what's happening with this from the old Patthead farm house in Queens Park?! 😲 🐦🌳🔔🐟 #LetGlasgowFlourish

A @glasgowcoa.bsky.social high on the Globe Offices on Hope Street. #Glasgow #Photography

Well spotted by @imperfectproduct.bsky.social! Can't help but think if Clyde the Thistle were to be resurrected for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, they'd put him behind a paywall like it seems the TV coverage will be! The pic on the right is Clyde on the Clyde at Brimmielaw back in 2014 🙄🤨 🐦🌳🔔🐟

The "Tree That Never Grew" on Bothwell Street, bearing the four emblems of the city: the bird, the bell, the fish, and the cone.

Great to get down to the Deep End today to catch the @glasgowcoa.bsky.social exhibition! Lovely to see some old faves and some new (to me) ones! 👏❤️ 🌳 🐟 🐦 🔔 💍

@glasgowcoa.bsky.social pub sign and old Blind Asylum...is that a CoA?

Beautiful carved wooden #Glasgow CoA at the Gasgow Art Club 🥰🐦🌳🔔🐟

Lovely bit of serendipity at our current #Glasgow CoA exhibition as reorted in yesterday's Sunday Post! 🐦🌳🔔🐟

St Mungo, followed by the ring of Languoreth and then the elements of the @glasgowcoa.bsky.social on the Central Entrance of the #Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Here is the bird that never flew Here is the tree that never grew Here is the fish that never swam Here is the bell that never rang 1/2

The elements of the @glasgowcoa.bsky.social Here is the bird that never flew Here is the tree that never grew Here is the fish that never swam Here is the bell that never rang Pulpit stairs, Glasgow Cathedral.

30 years! I would break down in tears. I'm sort of teary just reading about it.

Lovely to see the artist reunited with her work!! 🐦🌳🔔🐟

The other project, which may in fact take 200 Sammo films to finish, is to knit this incredible jumper designed by the legendary Mandy McIntosh, which features the Glasgow Coat of Arms depicted in Aran knitting. This is the sample and mine will hopefully be identical. 🌳🕊️🔔🐟 👀@glasgowcoa.bsky.social!