Glasgow Doors Open Days 2024.
On Sunday 22nd September from 11am to 4pm, Glasgow Crematorium is participating in this year's Door Open programme and offering a unique insight and guided tour throughout the crematorium including the back house operational area. Hopefully providing you an alternative tour to those normally offered during this programme of events.
Following on from our participation in Glasgow’s Doors Open Event in September 2023, I am delighted to advise that against city wide competition, we were awarded Outstanding New Participant.
My staff were delighted to see so many people who took time to attend tours, with some turning their hand artistically to craftwork. We would not have won such an award if it were not for the very complimentary comments and positive questionnaire returns submitted to the Glasgow Buildings Preservation Trust. As much as winning the award was special, it was all of you who attended who helped to make the day such a success.
this year’s festival theme – “We’re All Here”: Diversity & Diaspora. Our focus will be on exploring how immigration and emigration have shaped Glasgow into the multicultural hub it is today.
Join us at the Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2024 and be a part of something truly remarkable. Have a look at the operation of a crematorium and our fantastic building. We are thrilled to invite you to our event during this celebration of Glasgow's cultural heritage.
We hope in so doing to be both entertaining as well as hopefully dispelling some of the myths surrounding funerals. The crematorium is a listed B category building designed in ecclesiastical lines but for more, you will have to come along.
Tours will be taken on a half hourly basis, extending to 45 mins depending on question and answer time followed by a restorative cuppa and who knows there may also be cake!
glasgowcrematorium.co.uk
Open from 11am to 4pm with the last tour at being taken at 3.15pm.
Entry is free!
We look forward to welcoming you.
Anzac day service 25.4.24.
The 25th of April commemorates the significant numbers of Australian and New Zealand fatalities , 2000 men in one fleeting day , in the strategic landing and battle at Gallipoli in Turkey during the Second War . This is a day when all Aussies and Kiwis remember in solemn and quiet gratitude those terrible losses so far from native soil and it is fitting that the nation gives grateful acknowledgement to those who fell and those who survived this terrible time of conflict as memorial services are conducted across Australia and New Zealand . Within the three cemeteries which adjoin Glasgow Crematorium are a number , 1000 in total , of Commonwealth War Graves . Included in that number in the Western Necropolis are 2 small sections of pristinely maintained war graves in which rest the remains of soldiers who perished during this bloody campaign. A hugely emotional and dignified service of which we at Glasgow Crematorium are proud and honoured to help support by providing hospitality and a staffing resource and shall be pleased to do so again next year. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old . Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them
Commemorative tree planting autumn 2024.
Annual Xmas memorial service 1st Sunday in December.
We look forward to welcoming you along for a memorial service, led by the reverend Mark Johnstone, to remember those family and friends who are no longer with us. A traditional Christmas service where you will have the opportunity during the service to hang a personalized bauble on our Christmas tree. Tea, coffee, and some light fayre will be provided.