Tait’s Tower as a symbol of a potential glorious, modern space-age? Find out more about Glasgow's 1938 Empire Exhibition.

Of all of the four great exhibitions held in Glasgow from 1888 onwards, it is the Empire Exhibition of 1938 held in Bellahouston Park that remains the one which most fascinates the people of the city down to the present day. The images of all of that fantastic white-walled architecture, and most especially the iconic Tait’s Tower, one of Glasgow’s great lost buildings, are a symbol of a potential glorious, modern, space-age future that was snuffed out only a few months after the exhibition closed with the start of World War 2.

Fergus Sutherland originally trained as an archaeologist at Glasgow University but has spent most of the last four decades working as a heritage consultant and public historian. He has worked on over four hundred projects throughout Britain, Europe and the Middle East, but his primary love is the history of his adoptive city, Glasgow, the most fascinating place in the world (in his humble opinion!).