Glasgow Necropolis: Victorian Valhalla Walk
Address: Gates behind St Mungo’s Museum, Cathedral Square
Booking: Details to be announced.
Information: Accompany the Park Ranger Service back in time to when the 'Second City of the Empire's' Merchant Princes of commerce designed a fitting monumental epitaph to stand as testimony to their lifetime achievements, decide for yourself if the famous 'not proven' verdict in the Madeline Smith case was correct, visit the Cheapside/Kilbirnie Street fires memorial, 50,000 internments in the Necropolis but only 3,500 monuments? Discover how grave robbing was really carried out and why did it stop. Who was born twice but died once? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle investigates The Oscar Slater case? See examples of 'Greek' Thompson & Mackintosh designs, Egyptian, Roman & Greek architecture and work by famous sculptors. 'Wee Willie Winkie runs through the toon' - can you recite the rest?