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Discovering Glasgow, it’s hidden Countryside, Southside, West End and beyond. Celebrating the City
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Our guides are ready to bring you around the Royal Mile and beyond in Edinburgh, Scotland! They'll bring the history alive and enthral you with the magic of Scotland. The only thing missing is- YOU!🐾🦮💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Our Golden Retriever tour guides, Walter and Arthur, pose on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. They are smiling because they love to bring people on walking tours around Scotland's capital city. They hope you will join us soon!
February 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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You may have seen news of the UK's first battery-powered passenger train recently. However, a Scot got there over 180 years before... and it ran on the Glasgow to Edinburgh railway line walktalktours.uk/f/the-galvan...
The Galvanic Ghost of the Edinburgh to Glasgow Railway
…Great Western Railway (GWR) will introduce the UK’s first battery-only powered train into passenger service on Saturday 31 January … Last year the train set a new World Record for the furthest distan...
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February 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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🚨 Voting is open! 🚨
The #ArgyleStreetAsh won UK Tree of the Year in 2025, and now our tree is representing the UK in #EuropeanTreeOfTheYear. Naturally we need your vote to help it win! 🏆️
Please show Europe why this tree means so much 💚

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View of Argyle Street ash from above with Glasgow sprawling behind. Credit: Douglas Crawford/WTML View of Argylew Street ash from across the road with bus whizzing by and tenement in the background. Credit: George Anderson/WTML View looking up the trunk of the Argyle Street ash, up to the canopy with the tenement in the background. Credit: George Anderson/WTML
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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JJ Burnett meets William Stark … Glasgow 29/1/26
January 30, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Just got on the Subway at Govan with the new passenger screen doors - UTO next (unstaffed train operation)
January 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Rushing through Glasgow’s Central Station it is easy to overlook some of its details. Standing, facing the Gordon Street entrance, towards Rowand Anderson’s Central Hotel, you may notice a set of 8 emblems/coats of arms in the pediments above the top floor windows. 1/3
(Rear elevation of Robert Rowand Anderson's Glasgow Central Hotel, fronted by flat iron trusses of the station roof. Behind are a set of 8 pedimented windows with emblems/coats of arms inserted) (Set of three pedimented windows with emblems inserted - first double bay next 2 triple bay) (Set of 3 triple bayed pedimented windows with emblems inserted. Dome of hotel bar 'Champagne Central' below) (Set of 3 triple bayed pedimented windows with emblems inserted)
January 16, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Masts coming down in Sailing Ship Glenlee at the Transport Museum Glasgow (taken 15/1/26). Being refurbished as part of a planned maintenance project.
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Temperature inversion yesterday from Campsie Fells towards Milngavie/Bearsden. Seen from Berryknowes Road, Cardonald looking North with the Broomhill Flats to the right. Taken 13/1/26. f
January 14, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Glasgow’s Toolbooth Steeple once the rain had stopped and the sun was setting. 400 years young this year.
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Happy St Kentigern’s Day to all - here are a couple of sculptures from the City of Glasgow College campus (taken March 2024)
January 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Timeless message from @ncdominie.bsky.social on this day, the Feast of St Kentigern, Glasgow's own: "Have a blessed St Kentigern's Day, and try not to decapitate any sheep." 🙏😬🐦🌳🔔🐟
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Saints Kentigern (left) and Columba (right) giving it their all in a famous no-holds-barred saint-off by the Molendinar.

[Stained glass by Lorraine Lamond in St Alphonsus at the Barras.]
Modern stained-glass window. On the left, a bloke in monk kit has apparently just conjured a bird out of his left hand. On the right, his opponent (also monked up) is dismayed but undefeated. He might be about to start beatboxing.
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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@uofglasgow.bsky.social Coat of Arms on the Imaging Centre of Excellence at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Linthouse, Glasgow - 575 years of innovation !
January 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Tower Blocks 305 and 341 Caledonia Road from Southern Necropolis (14/10/24). Demolished 29th June 2025.
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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John Foxx and West Drumoyne
January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Glasgow’s Southside to a ‘T’ …
January 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Buchanan Street, Glasgow 30/12/25
December 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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As we near the end of Glasgow's 850 celebratory year it is time to say adieu to the logo and to welcome the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen's 900th year in 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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A great wee book …
December 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A 6 piece Christmas Jigsaw & quiz. Name the building, its date of construction, its parish location and its internationally famous teacher. A well-done emoji is up for grabs. More on the site and quiz answer in ALT.
Locharbriggs Red Sandstone sections standing in grass field one stone has dated 1907 Locharbriggs Red Sandstone sections - one engraved ELL.S , the other CHOO Red Sandstone sections 1 engraved STWOOD, 2 BOARD, 3 RISH Quiz Answer … The Sir John Maxwell School in Pollokshaws, Glasgow, evolved from an 1854 industrial school gifted by landowner Sir John Maxwell, with the grand red sandstone building we know built in 1907-08 by John Hamilton and opened in 1909, serving as a primary school and community hub, even hosting John Maclean's Marxist classes and a Gaelic unit, before closing in 2011 and demolished in 2023 despite preservation efforts by the Sir John Maxwell School Trust.
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Plaque to Alexander Smith, the Glasgow Poet, on wall of pend to South Exchange Court, Glasgow (18/12/25). Portrait of Smith circa 1856 and cover of the Poetry Anthology named in his honour published by the 3rd Eye Centre in 1983. More on Smith in ALT.
Plaque on wall of pend to South Exchange Court, Glasgow - inscribed to Alexander Smith 1829 - 1867 Poet and Essayist worked in this building as a muslin pattern designer 1846 - 1852 ... taken 18/12/25. Portrait of Alexander Smith circa 1856 by James Archer courtesy National Galleries Scotland. He was the eldest of six children born to John Smith and his wife Christina Murray, was born on 31 December 1829 in Kilmarnock, where his father designed printing blocks for calico and muslin. Shortly after the birth of a daughter the family moved to Paisley and in around 1838 they arrived in Glasgow. Little is known about Smith’s formal education except that by the age of eleven he had left John Street School and was working alongside his father in the muslin trade, armed, at least, with the basic tool of literacy and from thereon, was largely self-educated. After a severe childhood fever, Smith was left with a squint to his right eye which afflicted him mildly for the rest of his life. The next twelve years were spent working long hours in the cotton industry. Smith later wrote evocatively about the highs and lows of such an environ – the working conditions and the annual trades fortnight holiday – in the largely autobiographical ‘A Boy’s Poem’ (City Poems, 1857). Along with a dozen or so others aspiring to middle-class mores Smith formed the Glasgow Addisonian Literary Society, acting as its first secretary. The minute book of this avowedly evangelical young men’s improvement society has survived, showing that it met on a Saturday evening in the upstairs room of a Candleriggs coffee house between 1847 and 1852, and it was here that Smith learnt to compose and deliver essays. Smith’s first published poem (in Spenserian stanzas) appeared in James Hedderwick’s Glasgow Citizen in 1850. Smith contracted diphtheria in November 1866 and, although he seemed to have recovered by Christmas, was then struck down by typhus. He died at home on 5 January 1867, having just turned thirty-seven. He was buried in Warriston Cemetery. Front cover of 'Noise and Smoky Breath' an illustrated anthology of Glasgow Poems 1900-1983. Published May 1983 and named after Alexander Smith's Poem - Glasgow
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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On and off Argyle Street, Glasgow 1545 and 1555 hrs 10th December 2025
December 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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A pavement repair, The New ‘Vicky’, Glasgow
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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金継ぎ Kuntsugi, Mount Florida, Glasgow style
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Ring-necked Parakeets in Clarkston/Busby. Southside additions to Glasgow’s Victoria and Dawsholm Park colonies.
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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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