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Fire 🔥 in one of the new blocks at the Sanctuary Development on site of the former Victoria Infirmary - at least 5 appliances in attendance 1510 hrs 1/12/25
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The doo has flu the coup !
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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James Tassie Pub, Kilmarnock Rd, Glasgow. Tassie was born 1735 in Pollokshaws & trained as portrait medallionist at the Foulis Academy. An artistic & commercial success a 1791 list of his work ran to 15800 items. This 1787 cameo of Adam Smith is believed to be the only authentic portrait of Smith
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Larkin meets Thomson at the Caledonia Road Church, Glasgow, 20th October 2025.
#alexandergreekthomson #agt #glasgow #churches (@calligraphyoutside.bsky.social) more on ALT
(From HES Portal) Alexander Thomson 1856. Church and hall on gusset site, burnt out 1965. Banded ashlar on polygonal masonry base. South elevation: temple front raised over ground floor banded masonry podium with 2 boldly detailed corniced doorpieces with Greek motifs and antifixae. Original wooden doors. Ionic pedimented hexastyle portico above. East elevation: banded masonry and 3 blank corniced windows with discs. Low door at north end. Only 1-bay of gallery level remains. West elevation: 1-storey hall with 9 pilastered windows, now blank and 2 doors in architraves and frieze under small paired windows. The doors are concrete replicas of wooden doors. Tall square tower of banded masonry with 3 narrow openings near the top, a lantern and cross. Small section of cast iron railings at base. Rear wall modern. Interior gutted.
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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🌼🐝 Bees are tiny heroes! They pollinate a third of the food we eat, support wild plants & keep ecosystems healthy. Protecting bees means protecting our future. Plant flowers & spread the buzz! Our interactive Royal Bee Trail launches in 2026. Stay tuned for more details🐝
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Christmas is not far away and Glasgow’s Christmas Tree has been relocated to Cathedral Square this year.
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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'Monumentum Tempestatis' - a double fleur de lis plaque affixed to the remains of an Oak Tree on Glasgow Green, close to the Clyde Tidal Weir. It commemorates its felling during Storm Éowyn back in January (2025).
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Korean War memorial near Bridge of Sighs entrance to Necropolis - my Dad was sent there for his national service in 1951 in the Royal Corp of Signals & seconded to US Army/UN. He got a UN medal & wrote everything in upper case from then onwards !
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Now that’s an out-of-office 👌
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Good news at last www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/1420...
Long-term lease granted for climate tech start-up centre at the Lighthouse - Glasgow City Council
A Glasgow City Council committee today (6 November) granted a long-term (99 years) lease to Sustainable Ventures for the use of the Lighthouse in Glasgow city centre as a location to help climate tech...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Just after an echelon of Greylag Geese fly overhead, I turn off Spean Street in Cathcart Glasgow to be greeted by this handsome fella on the banks of the White Cart
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The beauty of Beaux Arts and Art Nouveau - the Grand Palais in Paris. Built for the 1900 Universal Exposition it became a hospital during WW1 and used by the Parisian resistance as an HQ during the Liberation of Paris in 1944/5
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Tuileries Gardens, Paris at sunset on the eve of All Saints Day 2025.
November 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Upper Upper Clyde Shipyard, former Seath's, Rutherglen. Yard famous for Cluthas, small iron hulled boats. Its closed in 1902 when the weir at Albert Bridge Glasgow stopped sea access. Continued until 1923 as Govan based Chalmers & McKivett - who the name Broomloan to the yard.
Picture taken on 27/10/25 at Dalmarnock Sewage Treatment Plant looking across to Rutherglen. It shows a shipyard with several yachts/boats inn storage, a launching ramp on left and a pontoon running the length of the yard. Weather dry, sunny spells and clouds/blue sky in background. From Graces Guide ..Mr. Seath began shipbuilding at Meadowside, Partick, in the early fifties. For three years he continued there, but about the year 1856 he removed to Rutherglen. Mr. Seath's aim seems to have been to combine the functions of shipmaster, shipbuilder, and shipowner, and for a time played the triple role with success. His vessel the ‘Artizan’ was designed for passenger traffic between Glasgow and Rutherglen. Such an enterprise seems superfluous in these days, but it must be remembered that in 1856 railways were in their infancy, and Glasgow and Rutherglen were far apart ...
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The tower of Rutherglen Old Church. Medieval in origin new spire was added in 1710. Originally dedicated to St Conval, a disciple of Kentigern & founded 6th C. Believed that Wallace concluded the peace between England & Scotland here on 8th Feb 1297 #Rutherglen #Ruglen #899
Church tower with steeple and clock and with gold weather vane on top. Sitting is a graveyard. Picture taken on 27/10/25 with blue sky in background. From HES Portal Essentially late medieval but much rebuilt and perhaps incorporating earlier fabric. Fragments of former church comprising E gable and square tower. Ashlar. TOWER was heightened 1710, and given its present appearance; it has door at E and round-headed opening near eaves, buttress central on either flank and clock face; chamfered openings; slated broach spire also 1710 with gilded balls and weathercock, large louvred openings a later alteration.. Column base lies alongside. 1635 bell by Michael Burgerhuys of Middleburgh, Holland.
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Choices. Graffiti at the Dalmarnock waste treatment plant in Glasgow 22/10/22.
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Amazing sky over Glasgow 1635 hrs October 23 2025
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Spoutmouth, Glasgow, October 15th 2025 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Oatlands, Glasgow, post Pakora shortages, October 2025
October 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Cathkin Park, Glasgow, October 2025
October 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Surry Hills, Sydney 2200 hrs
October 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Clyde Built (again) this time outside Hobart Town Hall, Tasmania - taken on a fine early spring day - more on Laidlaw & Sons www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1888_Book/La...
September 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Lantern on the gates to James Dempster's Old Cathcart Parish Church looking sadly awry. Managed to locate the original design in the wonderful HES reproduction of Walter MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry catalogue. #old #cathcart #parish #saracen #foundry
September 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Truth will always out … ah for the days (and waist size) of Flip 😉
September 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM