Tastes of Govanhill: Virtual Walking Tour

10 Jun 2025

Radical Glasgow Tours have launched a new self-guided tour which will take you on a journey through refugee histories and food cultures in the built environment of this Southside neighbourhood. You can follow the route in real life or experience it online. At each stop, listen to audio of the conversations, recommendations and insights of the community historians of Milk Glasgow.

The project was a collaboration between Milk, Migrant Voice, Radical Glasgow Tours and the Scottish Refugee Council, grant-aided by Glasgow City Heritage Trust. The tour and accompanying resources were created for Refugee Festival Scotland 2025.

The audio clips were recorded by Sarah Ali, Yaaeen, Aiza, Mehr, Iqra, Farah and Farhiya. By recording lines created by other members of the community alongside their own, they did important work in helping include a wider range of refugee voices in this tour.

The tour was created by the collective community of Milk, over a series of themed conversation sessions, community mapping, audio and zinemaking workshops. The theme and the content of the stops reflect (some of) the interests, knowledge and histories of the women involved.