Curious City Podcast - Ghosts of Glasgow

Episode 18 - Scary paintings, ghost signs and ghost stories from Kelvingrove
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In this episode, Curious City regular Norry Wilson joins curator Laura Bauld to look at the spectral side of Glasgow and its citizens over time.

Featured, in this episode:

Photograph of the journalist and writer Norry Wilson, pictured inside The Burrell Collection

Norry Wilson

This episode's guest

Curious City regular and the man behind the hugely popular Lost Glagsow Facebook page, Norry Wilson returns as our guest to share his stories of the ghosts he meets in photographs, as part of his work.

Lost Glasgow - official Facebook page
The Beast of Blednoch

The Brownie of Blednoch

This eerie painting was inspired by William Nicholson's poem ‘The Brownie of Blednoch’ first published in 1825 in the Dumfries Magazine. It was commissioned by Hornel's friend Malcolm Harper to illustrate a book of poetry entitled The Bards of Galloway (1889)

The Brownie of Blednoch on Collections Navigator