The meeting took place in a part of the Mackintosh building known as the Furniture Gallery

Glasgow School of Art hosted “forbidden” events in the vulnerable Mackintosh building that lacked any fire suppression system, it has been claimed.

A photograph on the school’s website shows alumni gathering around an audio visual display in December enjoying a “Mackintosh Memories Tea Party”.

The 2014 fire that devastated much of the building began when a projector ignited gases from a foam canister used in a student project.

The image appears to show the same type of equipment being deployed again in the partially restored A-listed building.

A senior figure at the art school said that he was flabbergasted by the image of guests in part of the building known as the Furniture Gallery while construction work was going on elsewhere and with no fire