Photo: K Brophy

Cooling towers and stone circles:

the heritage of Sighthill

Text and image selection by: Kenny Brophy, Helen Green and Rebecca Younger

This exhibition is funded as part of the University of Glasgow Being Human hub.

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Introduction

Introduction

The construction of the Pinkston power station (1900)

Pinkston in camouflage, from the north-west (late 1950s?)

Pinkston Power Station (1955)

Pinkston Power Station (1959)

Clearing the land for utopia (mid-1960s)

M8 schism (late 1960s or early 1970s)

Building the high rises at Sighthill (1968)

The westbound carriageway of the M8 (1970)

The Sighthill footbridge and the construction of gantry signs (1971)

Clearing Tenements, Springburn Road (c.1975)

Megalith (1979)

Helicopter inspiration (1979)

Vertical living (early 1980s)

The living and the dead (1987)

The creator (1989)

Sighthill Park (2013)

Demolition (2016)

One final equinox (2016)

Extraction (2016)

Rediscovering Broomhill (2016)

Great crown of stone (2020)

Keepmoat Circus (2020)

Survey (2021)

tile - The new Sighthill (2022 and beyond)

The new Sighthill (2022 and beyond)