Dunoon Goes POP visit to Kelvingrove
Fri 31 May
|Glasgow
Join us as we take a trip to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow to explore Dunoon’s connections to the sugar trade, the central ingredient in soft drinks, and the influential plantation owner James Ewing.
Time & Location
31 May 2024, 09:00 – 16:00
Glasgow, Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AG, UK
About the event
What does the slave trade, Jamaica and sugar have to do with Dunoon Goes POP making soft drinks in Dunoon?
Join us as we take a trip to Glasgow to explore Dunoon’s connections to the sugar trade, the central ingredient in soft drinks, and the influential plantation owner James Ewing.
We’ll visit Kelvingrove Museum to learn more about James Ewing, who was an MP (1775–1853), Lord Provost of Glasgow (1832–1833) and a merchant, and built Castle House in Dunoon in 1822. Ewing was a plantation and slave owner in Jamaica and founder of the pro-slavery lobby group the Glasgow West India Association that campaigned to retain chattel slavery in the colonies.
We will meet Glasgow Life’s curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire Nelson Cummins who will introduce us to their collection and artifacts related to Ewing.
This trip is part of our ongoing research into our town’s soft drinks…