Heritage Activity and Interpretation

 As part of the National Lottery Funded project, we have developed an Activity and Interpretation Plan to set out how we will share all the great things about our project with as many people as possible.

We believe this project contains huge potential to get local people excited about and engaged with rowing and the river, and proud of the sport's long history and its association with the Clyde. The activity plan is designed to engage a wide range of audiences with the heritage of the West Boathouse and surrounding area, working closely with club members, volunteers, partner organisations and friends.

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The key aspiration of the Rejuvenation of the West Boathouse is to deliver outcomes for heritage, people and communities.

Heritage

  • greater appreciation and knowledge of the heritage of the boathouse, the river and the sport
  • an exemplar for curation, dissemination and interpretation of sporting heritage
  • place Glaswegian and Scottish rowing traditions in wider context
  • engage a wider audience through digital content

People

  • engage with communities along the rowing reach, not just those by the Boathouse 
  • create connections between diverse communities of interest
  • increase usage by non-rowing groups
  • bring two clubs together through shared activities, events and training opportunities
  • encourage participation in rowing for recreation

Communities

  • raise awareness of West Boathouse as resource fro local community groups
  • re-animate the river and its banks with activity and events aimed at wider audiences
  • foster greater awareness of the river and its conservation needs, encouraging all users to actively advocate for ecological improvement

Activity / Event

  • Schools activity programme
  • ​'Know your place' local history workshops
  • Conservation workshops
  • Archive and museum studies intern placements
  • ​Environmental audit workshops
  • Photographic and photogrammetric survey workshops
  • Boat Building with local groups
  • ​Hard hat tours of the construction site
  • 'Open to Interpretation' workshops
  • Caring for your collection workshops
  • From Boathouse to Bathhouse - talk and walk about A.B.McDonald, the architect of the West Boathouse
  • ​Rock The Boat celebratory events
  • ​Communities of the Clyde - story gathering along the river
  • Up the Watter 2 - creative heritage commissions and events
  • Water based flotillas and processions
  • Riverbank ecology survey and river surveys

Interpretation

  • Develop archive of club objects and materials
  • ​Develop Collection Care toolkit
  • Clyde Craft:  researching river craft
  • A to Z of Rowing on the Clyde
  • Pop-up exhibition
  • ​Digital newsletters
  • 'Up the Watter' 360 degree digital capture of a river journey
  • Sounds of the river audio capture
  • ​Digital recording of objects and documents
  • Communities of the Clyde - dialectogram
  • Design and Installation of Interpretation panels
  • ​Trails of the Riverbank - heritage trail development
  • Green Manifesto
  • Research into 'water and well-being'
  • Sporting heritage interpretation
A wee trip 'up the watter' on a bonny summer's day.  The nifty 360 degree footage comes courtesy of Dr Stuart Jeffrey of The Glasgow School of Art's School of Simulation and Visualisation.  Keep an eye out for the crocodile - 2.20 mins in!