Much more than just football - historic stadiums and Football Memories, with Robert Harvey, Football Memories Scotland
In this episode, we will be talking about the history of Scottish football and its social importance, and about how stadiums shaped and influenced Glaswegian lives across the centuries, with a special focus on the Football Memories Scotland project, with Robert Harvey, volunteer and area coordinator in Glasgow for Football Memories Scotland.
People and social interactions are at the heart of football, just like stadiums and other venues linked to a specific sport, such as pubs and clubs.
Football Memories Scotland is a project which provides opportunities for people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia to reminisce through discussion of archive football images. The Scottish football archive at the Scottish Football Museum holds thousands of images covering the history of the game in Scotland. These images are used as memory triggers for participants and can assist with short term memory recall.
This episode’s guest is Robert Harvey, Volunteer and Area Co-ordinator for Glasgow, Football Memories Scotland.
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This podcast was produced by Inner Ear for Glasgow City Heritage Trust.
This podcast is kindly sponsored by the National Trust for Scotland and supported by Tunnock’s.
Creators and Guests
Host
Niall Murphy
Niall Murphy, who is the Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, is a conservation architect and is heavily involved in heritage, conservation and community issues in Glasgow. Niall is also Chair of Govanhill Baths Building Preservation Trust and was previously chair of Pollokshields Heritage, Planning Convener for Pollokshields Community Council and a member of the Glasgow Urban Design Panel. Between 2016 – 2018 he was a member of the Development Management Working Group for the Scottish Government’s Planning Review. Niall regularly lectures or does walking tours on architecture, heritage and urban design issues. Niall has won the Glasgow Doors Open Day Excellence Award for Outstanding Talk (2023) and for Inspiring City Tour (2017), the Glasgow Doors Open Day Above and Beyond Award (2014), the Sir Robert Lorimer Award for Sketching (1996) and, in addition to nominations for Saltire Awards and GIA Awards was nominated for the Scottish Civic Trust’s My Place Award for Civic Champion in 2015.
Producer
Anny Deery
TV Producer. Retrained Massage Therapist @glasgowholistic. Live in Glasgow. Mother of a 8 yo + three year old.