Friends of Glasgow Royal Infirmary
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Have you visited our current exhibition? A brief history of dialysis alongside an art exhibition created by patients during dialysis sessions.
Only 70 years ago chronic kidney disease was a death sentence. Progress is amazing...let's keep it coming.
Only 70 years ago chronic kidney disease was a death sentence. Progress is amazing...let's keep it coming.
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Have you visited our current exhibition? A brief history of dialysis alongside an art exhibition created by patients during dialysis sessions.
Only 70 years ago chronic kidney disease was a death sentence. Progress is amazing...let's keep it coming.
Only 70 years ago chronic kidney disease was a death sentence. Progress is amazing...let's keep it coming.
Rottenrow. Glasgow's beloved maternity hospital until services moved to The Princess Royal in 2001.Our biggest & best exhibition yet celebrates Rottenrow. Opening 2026. The Birth of a City. To get you in the mood: pinards, a training pelvis & weighing scales. Who knows what a pinard is? 🤔
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Rottenrow. Glasgow's beloved maternity hospital until services moved to The Princess Royal in 2001.Our biggest & best exhibition yet celebrates Rottenrow. Opening 2026. The Birth of a City. To get you in the mood: pinards, a training pelvis & weighing scales. Who knows what a pinard is? 🤔
🎻 Concert next Friday 21st Nov. at 1pm. An opportunity not to be missed.
We are thrilled to host the supremely talented Alistair McCulloch & Aaron Jones.
Alistair is is licensed to play The Gregg Fiddle, a national treasure 🏴 It was played in 1779 with Robert Burns when he attended dance classes.
We are thrilled to host the supremely talented Alistair McCulloch & Aaron Jones.
Alistair is is licensed to play The Gregg Fiddle, a national treasure 🏴 It was played in 1779 with Robert Burns when he attended dance classes.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🎻 Concert next Friday 21st Nov. at 1pm. An opportunity not to be missed.
We are thrilled to host the supremely talented Alistair McCulloch & Aaron Jones.
Alistair is is licensed to play The Gregg Fiddle, a national treasure 🏴 It was played in 1779 with Robert Burns when he attended dance classes.
We are thrilled to host the supremely talented Alistair McCulloch & Aaron Jones.
Alistair is is licensed to play The Gregg Fiddle, a national treasure 🏴 It was played in 1779 with Robert Burns when he attended dance classes.
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More tales of Glasgow Bees 🐝 from Frank Worsdall’s ‘A Glasgow Keek Show/Glasgow Courier 29th May 1800’
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
More tales of Glasgow Bees 🐝 from Frank Worsdall’s ‘A Glasgow Keek Show/Glasgow Courier 29th May 1800’
🌼🐝 Bees are tiny heroes! They pollinate a third of the food we eat, support wild plants & keep ecosystems healthy. Protecting bees means protecting our future. Plant flowers & spread the buzz! Our interactive Royal Bee Trail launches in 2026. Stay tuned for more details🐝
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🌼🐝 Bees are tiny heroes! They pollinate a third of the food we eat, support wild plants & keep ecosystems healthy. Protecting bees means protecting our future. Plant flowers & spread the buzz! Our interactive Royal Bee Trail launches in 2026. Stay tuned for more details🐝
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Christmas is not far away and Glasgow’s Christmas Tree has been relocated to Cathedral Square this year.
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Christmas is not far away and Glasgow’s Christmas Tree has been relocated to Cathedral Square this year.
Well we have a lot to update you on but we will start off with this...the bee trail and our garden extension and glow up is well and truly under way.....bulb planting yesterday 😃 with the help of Craig from The Conservation Volunteers and the Trades House, Glasgow who also supplied the bulbs!
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Well we have a lot to update you on but we will start off with this...the bee trail and our garden extension and glow up is well and truly under way.....bulb planting yesterday 😃 with the help of Craig from The Conservation Volunteers and the Trades House, Glasgow who also supplied the bulbs!
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We are pleased to announce the daily themes for the 2025 #ArchiveAdventCalendar. A reminder that anyone can take part in December. Just post something with the daily hashtag and #ArchiveAdventCalendar. We can't wait to see what you will all share this year! 😁🎄🎅
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We are pleased to announce the daily themes for the 2025 #ArchiveAdventCalendar. A reminder that anyone can take part in December. Just post something with the daily hashtag and #ArchiveAdventCalendar. We can't wait to see what you will all share this year! 😁🎄🎅
When you go home
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today
What will you do with your today? 💗
#ArmisticeDay2025 #lestweforget
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today
What will you do with your today? 💗
#ArmisticeDay2025 #lestweforget
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
When you go home
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today
What will you do with your today? 💗
#ArmisticeDay2025 #lestweforget
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today
What will you do with your today? 💗
#ArmisticeDay2025 #lestweforget
Well if it isn't Baron Joseph Lister on his holidays with his family in Canada in 1897. Image belongs to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
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July 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Well if it isn't Baron Joseph Lister on his holidays with his family in Canada in 1897. Image belongs to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Ooft it was a real honour to have Prof Jann Gardner, Chief Executive and Dr Lesley Thomson KC, Chair of @nhsggc visit us last week. Dr Thomson posed alongside our display about Rebecca Strong, our first matron. Three formidable and remarkable women; one in 1879, two in 2025.
July 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Ooft it was a real honour to have Prof Jann Gardner, Chief Executive and Dr Lesley Thomson KC, Chair of @nhsggc visit us last week. Dr Thomson posed alongside our display about Rebecca Strong, our first matron. Three formidable and remarkable women; one in 1879, two in 2025.
Our fab alley of Pears thanks to The Trades House (esp Richard Paterson & Stephen Docherty), The Lord Provost & Rev M Johnstone. Glasgow has a rich fruit tree heritage.The Merchant City sits on a former orchard & Gartnavel Royal houses the oldest Pear Tree.
Chutney, cider...endless possibilities
Chutney, cider...endless possibilities
July 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Our fab alley of Pears thanks to The Trades House (esp Richard Paterson & Stephen Docherty), The Lord Provost & Rev M Johnstone. Glasgow has a rich fruit tree heritage.The Merchant City sits on a former orchard & Gartnavel Royal houses the oldest Pear Tree.
Chutney, cider...endless possibilities
Chutney, cider...endless possibilities
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An operation in progress, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, late 19th century.
July 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
An operation in progress, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, late 19th century.
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A favourite photo Glasgow's Cathedral Square. A miniature Queen Victoria at entrance to @friendsofgri.bsky.social museum (by Albert Hemstock Hodge 1914) sits atop James Miller's Bishop's Palace Memorial Pillar (1915) with its @glasgowcoa.bsky.social coat of arms on the south face #glasgow850
July 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A favourite photo Glasgow's Cathedral Square. A miniature Queen Victoria at entrance to @friendsofgri.bsky.social museum (by Albert Hemstock Hodge 1914) sits atop James Miller's Bishop's Palace Memorial Pillar (1915) with its @glasgowcoa.bsky.social coat of arms on the south face #glasgow850
Check out this menu for The Mess Dinner in 1981. Some feast😂
July 18, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Check out this menu for The Mess Dinner in 1981. Some feast😂
A final Kidney post: Royal connections.
1973 Princess Margaret opened ward 42. With its new curtains & flowers 42 was a step up from 51/52, located in the car park! They received no Royal Visit!
1993 Princess Anne opened The Scottish Renal & @erakidney Association meetings.
1973 Princess Margaret opened ward 42. With its new curtains & flowers 42 was a step up from 51/52, located in the car park! They received no Royal Visit!
1993 Princess Anne opened The Scottish Renal & @erakidney Association meetings.
July 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
A final Kidney post: Royal connections.
1973 Princess Margaret opened ward 42. With its new curtains & flowers 42 was a step up from 51/52, located in the car park! They received no Royal Visit!
1993 Princess Anne opened The Scottish Renal & @erakidney Association meetings.
1973 Princess Margaret opened ward 42. With its new curtains & flowers 42 was a step up from 51/52, located in the car park! They received no Royal Visit!
1993 Princess Anne opened The Scottish Renal & @erakidney Association meetings.
Dr Kolff (1911-2009)who invented the 1st dialyser came to Glasgow in 1979 & is pictured here alongside the statue of Thomas Graham in George Square. Graham was a Professor Chemistry, born in Glasgow in 1805. Graham coined the term dialysis from the Greek dia - through and luein - to loosen.
July 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Dr Kolff (1911-2009)who invented the 1st dialyser came to Glasgow in 1979 & is pictured here alongside the statue of Thomas Graham in George Square. Graham was a Professor Chemistry, born in Glasgow in 1805. Graham coined the term dialysis from the Greek dia - through and luein - to loosen.
The Kidney Unit at GRI dialysed its first patient in 1959. Arthur Kennedy was in charge - pictured with a biochemist & the dialysis machine (pic 1/2). It was called a Kolff Kidney after it's inventor, Dr W.J. Kolff. The Kolff kidney was last used in Glasgow in 1974 (pic3/4).
July 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Kidney Unit at GRI dialysed its first patient in 1959. Arthur Kennedy was in charge - pictured with a biochemist & the dialysis machine (pic 1/2). It was called a Kolff Kidney after it's inventor, Dr W.J. Kolff. The Kolff kidney was last used in Glasgow in 1974 (pic3/4).
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@friendsofgri.bsky.social set-up specialist burns treatment in 1833. It had a vital role in treatment of burn injuries sustained in Glasgow's industrial revolution. One treatment was Carron oil (lime water/linseed oil mix) developed at the Iron Works. Now used as a supplement for horses!
July 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@friendsofgri.bsky.social set-up specialist burns treatment in 1833. It had a vital role in treatment of burn injuries sustained in Glasgow's industrial revolution. One treatment was Carron oil (lime water/linseed oil mix) developed at the Iron Works. Now used as a supplement for horses!
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A fire surround from the Rottenrow Maternity Hospital into which the doctors and midwives who delivered countless Glaswegians have etched their names.
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#glasgow #Glasgowhistory #glasgowroyalinfirmary
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June 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A fire surround from the Rottenrow Maternity Hospital into which the doctors and midwives who delivered countless Glaswegians have etched their names.
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#glasgow #Glasgowhistory #glasgowroyalinfirmary
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The lovely BMS team at GRI celebrated #BiomedicalScienceDay25 recently. We have a terrific team & GRI could not run without them ❤️ #AtTheHeartOfHealthcare
They have donated the proceeds from their bake sale to us.
#GRI built by The Adam brothers
Made by the people inside ❤️
They have donated the proceeds from their bake sale to us.
#GRI built by The Adam brothers
Made by the people inside ❤️
June 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The lovely BMS team at GRI celebrated #BiomedicalScienceDay25 recently. We have a terrific team & GRI could not run without them ❤️ #AtTheHeartOfHealthcare
They have donated the proceeds from their bake sale to us.
#GRI built by The Adam brothers
Made by the people inside ❤️
They have donated the proceeds from their bake sale to us.
#GRI built by The Adam brothers
Made by the people inside ❤️
William Leishman 1834-1894
Physician to GRI & Rottenrow, Chair of Midwifery @uofglasgow.bsky.social from 1868 & Editor of The Glasgow Medical Journal 1862-1876
His son, Sir William Boog Leishman, the pathologist gave his name to Leishmaniasis.
@arascot.bsky.social
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Physician to GRI & Rottenrow, Chair of Midwifery @uofglasgow.bsky.social from 1868 & Editor of The Glasgow Medical Journal 1862-1876
His son, Sir William Boog Leishman, the pathologist gave his name to Leishmaniasis.
@arascot.bsky.social
@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
William Leishman 1834-1894
Physician to GRI & Rottenrow, Chair of Midwifery @uofglasgow.bsky.social from 1868 & Editor of The Glasgow Medical Journal 1862-1876
His son, Sir William Boog Leishman, the pathologist gave his name to Leishmaniasis.
@arascot.bsky.social
@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
Physician to GRI & Rottenrow, Chair of Midwifery @uofglasgow.bsky.social from 1868 & Editor of The Glasgow Medical Journal 1862-1876
His son, Sir William Boog Leishman, the pathologist gave his name to Leishmaniasis.
@arascot.bsky.social
@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
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Anaesthesia pioneer James Young Simpson was born #OTD 1811. We love this student's sketch of Simpson lecturing as Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University in the 1850s.
June 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Anaesthesia pioneer James Young Simpson was born #OTD 1811. We love this student's sketch of Simpson lecturing as Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University in the 1850s.
We got plums
Our Victoria plum tree sits in our Biodiversity Garden & is watched over by Queen Victoria as she graces the museum entrance. The building, designed by James Miller was officially opened in 1914 By King George
Plum jam, pear cider, honey....endless possibilities😜
Our Victoria plum tree sits in our Biodiversity Garden & is watched over by Queen Victoria as she graces the museum entrance. The building, designed by James Miller was officially opened in 1914 By King George
Plum jam, pear cider, honey....endless possibilities😜
June 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
We got plums
Our Victoria plum tree sits in our Biodiversity Garden & is watched over by Queen Victoria as she graces the museum entrance. The building, designed by James Miller was officially opened in 1914 By King George
Plum jam, pear cider, honey....endless possibilities😜
Our Victoria plum tree sits in our Biodiversity Garden & is watched over by Queen Victoria as she graces the museum entrance. The building, designed by James Miller was officially opened in 1914 By King George
Plum jam, pear cider, honey....endless possibilities😜
Did you catch The Resol Quartet and their debut performance in the museum as our new resident artists? Or maybe @nordicviola.bsky.social last weekend?
Magnificent! If you missed them don't panic😅
Here are details of the next concerts in our series #musicinthegri
@whatsonglasgow.bsky.social
Magnificent! If you missed them don't panic😅
Here are details of the next concerts in our series #musicinthegri
@whatsonglasgow.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Did you catch The Resol Quartet and their debut performance in the museum as our new resident artists? Or maybe @nordicviola.bsky.social last weekend?
Magnificent! If you missed them don't panic😅
Here are details of the next concerts in our series #musicinthegri
@whatsonglasgow.bsky.social
Magnificent! If you missed them don't panic😅
Here are details of the next concerts in our series #musicinthegri
@whatsonglasgow.bsky.social