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Glasgow dweller, architecture enjoyer.
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"St.Vitus Cathedral, Prague". Josef Sudek. c.1927.
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Mutual recognition.
February 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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"View From The Window". Arthur Segal. 1930.
February 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A second Mitch McConnell has hit the ground
February 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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So, thanks to the full ghostsign reveal, and some diligent digging by m'learned friend, New Cleckit Dominie, we can now reveal that the Brooklyn Cafe used to be part of a chain of chippies.

Here's the Murray Firth prospectus from a share launch (Scotsman, 24 May 1920).
January 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Great thread with some very practical advice..
As #StormEowyn approaches, with red weather warnings, I thought it might be useful to share my storm preparation plans, which are based on spending 3 days with no power after Storm Arwen in 2021 (what is it with storms named after women from Middle Earth?) 1/21
January 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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In 1911, installed for the Scottish National Exhibition of that year, there was a dirigible gondola ride in Kelvingrove Park which would take you across the valley below to the far side of the River Kelvin. How fun does that look?

Cont./

#glasgow #glasgowhistory #kelvingrovepark
January 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys
December 11, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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three pages of early january diary entries from my beloved tattered copy of the english year, edited by geoffrey grigson
January 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Santa has been good to this pair of lads on Crown St, Gorbals back in December 1970, bringing astronaut suits and space hoppers down the lum for them.

📷 TSPL

#Glasgow #Christmas
December 25, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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December 23, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Improbable lighthouses
Archeologist's fantasies
c1850
November 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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“We’re hearing that the Angel of History balloon is out of control - a wind is blowing from paradise and it’s broken free of its moorings”
November 28, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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"you used heroin for 15 years?"
November 28, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Cat. Ca. 1904 - 1908. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...
November 23, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century
November 22, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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The two genres of starter packs are “piss goblin pals” and “data statistics and economists from the school of London”
November 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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For sale: ship of theseus
Condition: used, like new
November 17, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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it would be so funny if this is how his presidency ended. months before his term ends, he just walks into the rainforest and is never seen again
Joe Biden becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Amazon Rainforest.
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Peace but not with capitalism. David Proudfoot, a Communist miner speaking in Methil, Fife in the 1920s.
November 17, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling
November 16, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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#OTD, 17 November 1915, thousands of Glasgow housewives and workers - Mrs Barbour's Army - marched on the city's Sheriff Court in support of 20,000 rent strikers, leading to the introduction of rent controls throughout the UK.
November 17, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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Eclectic Public Library
Eclectic, AL
November 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM