Balfron Heritage Group is planning a three-week-long exhibition of Thomson’s life and work in the village’s John McLintock Hall.

Launching on March 21, with a one-man play and 1960s archive footage of Thomson’s architecture from the National Library Moving Images Archive, the exhibition will begin with Thomson’s birth in the recently-industrialised cotton ‘boom town’ of Balfron, where his father worked as an accountant at the Ballindalloch Cotton Works and when the village was at the peak of its involvement with the Scottish Radical movement.

It will trace the family’s tragic move to grimy 19th century Glasgow, Alexander’s chance foray into design and his ultimate rise as arguably one of Scotland’s greatest architects.

The exhibition highlights the varied portfolio of Thomson’s work from coastal and urban villas to commercial buildings, tenements and his magnificent churches, culminating in his acclaimed masterpiece ‘Holmwood’ in Cathcart. To tell the full story of this, Emma Inglis, NTS Curator South & West, will present the Heritage Group’s monthly talk on the evening of Thursday, September 10.

The free Balfron exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday, March 22 to Saturday, April 22.

More information can be found here.