Family Trail
A fun, fact-finding tour developed by Inverclyde Heritage Network (IHN) for Doors Open Days.

Take a walk around the block and see what you can find. Open the link on a mobile phone to follow the trail and answer the questions which follow to help you discover new things about the buildings. If it is raining, you can follow the trail from the comfort of home!

Look at the buildings and images then click on your answers to the questions. When you have completed the Trail, press the Submit button to find the answers and some further explanations.

NB: this trail has been tested on several phones. However, as we cannot guarantee full service provision, we suggest you download a non-interactive pdf version of the trail and the answers available from 10th September from our website.
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The route goes around the Municipal Buildings block and most points on the trail, or shown in the images, can be seen without having to cross any roads. However, there is one place where a better view of some of the images can be seen by crossing a road. If you choose to cross, please cross safely. The route outline is shown below.
This is Inverclyde's Municipal Buildings which were built in the 1880s, 140 years ago, by Greenock Burgh Council. It is very ornate with lots of carvings and sculptures which tell the story of how Greenock became a wealthy and important town in Scotland and celebrates the work of the craftsmen who built and decorated it.
The oldest part of the building is the Town Hall. It was built more than 100 years before the Municipal Buildings. You can't see the Town Hall from the street as it is in the middle of the building. The town hall has been used as a courtroom, for concerts, meetings, dances, weddings. It is also used to host the Inverclyde Music Festival. Maybe you have performed on one of the stages? More recently, it has been used to give people Covid-19 jabs.
The Municipal Buildings were designed to wrap around the existing Town Hall - shown in light green. The full set of plans for the original design shows that all of the Council departments and their employees were to be found under one roof.
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