A Glasgow Album

In Bath St. . .

. . .we spot a wee shop not seen by us before. . .

. . lovely things reduced. I am reminded of Howard Carter's words on gazing into Tutankhamum's tomb - 'wonderful things'

North part of Queen St there (you can just see station). Not that upmarket

Looking in the kebab shop

'LOSE' - well that's a cheerful message

Helicopter above watching over George Square

Roof of Queen St station

Oh, let's press on

Looking back

Now in North Hanover St looking down on George Square

For more on George Square, the 'Occupy' moment, and the Orange Order laying a wreath, see

George Square
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/george-square.html
George Square 2 July 2011: the Orange Order lays a wreath at the Cenotaph
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/07/george-square-2-july-2011-orange-order.html
George Square 3: 'Occupy Glasgow' October/November 2011
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/11/george-square-3-occupy-glasgow.html

Outer security rim

Note green Solidarity banner. That's the Tommy Sheridan groupuscle. For the Sheridan trial and the fracturing of the Scottish Left, see
Swingergate Day 2: Tommy and Gail Sheridan on Trial
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/10/swingergate-day-2-tommy-and-gail.html
Swingergate Day 11: 'How's He No' Gettin' Drapped Aff?'
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/10/swingergate-part-2-hows-he-no-gettin.html
Swingergate Day 28: A Large Pinch of Salt
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/11/swingergate-day-28-large-pinch-of-salt.html
Swingergate Day 37: Andy Coulson doesn't slip up
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/12/swingergate-day-37-andy-coulson-doesnt.html
Swingergate Day 45: Waiting for the Verdict
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/12/swingergate-day-45-waiting-for-verdict.html
Swingergate Day 46: the Last Day
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/12/swingergate-day-46-last-day.html
Swingergate: Sentenced
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/02/swingergate-sentenced.html

The march is heading east towards the High St, then down to Glasgow Green

Passing the City Chambers

Note Unison poster

Bit blurred but thought the about-readable inscription worth noting

The inevitable armfuls of Socialist Workers - 'OUT! OUT! OUT!' Am not really up to speed with the latest fallings out but think they don't get on with any of the Scottish socialist parties

Aberdeen Trades Union Council

Montrose St is on our right here. . .

. . .which we have dashed up to get some views of the march from the Rottenrow. 'Dashed' in a manner of speaking - it is about the steepest street in Glasgow I believe

The saved entrance to the old Maternity - my brother and sister were born there, as were my daughters

Looking down -can't see much damn it

We press on through Strathclyde Uni buildings

Ah that's a bit better

The march turning into the High St

'NO RIGHT TURN' - I should think not!

We'll head down and join the march

Disagree with the BBC's estimate of 5000. I make it closer to double that. In the old days, a useful thumb rule was to take the police estimate and the Morning Star estimate, add together and divide by two. The Police Federation have sent their best wishes to the marchers today. Changed times.

Wee dog gets a carry

Help for Heroes

Love the pose of the young woman with the camera - pure gallus, reminiscent of Gozzoli's Salome -

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/gozzoli/5various/3salome.html

Glasgow Cross and the Tollbooth coming up

A rare moment of dissonance -a driver has shouted 'arseholes' at the marchers. The cop has already warned him

At the Cross now

Think that's the fist kilt I've seen

The tall boy second from right looks as if he has come from an early 60s Aldermaston march

Ah here comes Helen with placard and Ali pushing their wee Calum in pram.

Hi guys!

Note helicopter in distance. . .

. . .a shower of red rose petals would be nice

Here and in next pic I have decided to delve into the 'Devil's Toolbox' of Photoshop Elements and erase the two marchers holding the banner. . .

. . . Sorry about that guys you looked great - and fab banner! - but maybe for the best

Paul Holleran of the NUJ holding the flag and Jim McNally with the wee brown bag - two of the best union officials to have on your side in a dispute! We get a wave from Paul, Jim misses us

A gap in the march coming up

Crop of the above

These marchers have decided to pause and sit down - for effect one supposes rather than a wee rest

Think there mat be some debate as to the wisdom of the halt - the cops are not happy for a start

Crop of above

These ladies passing through are amused. Some other pedestrians are not so amused

On we go

Big gap now

Glasgow anarchists coming up. Over on the right is the Gallowgate - go back 50 years and you would have seen me pass here every Wednesday with the war pension from my father who worked in the Saracen Head just down the road a bit. See

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/calton.html

I have a memory - maybe faulty - that the anarchist Stuart Christie was an occasional regular. Christie was of course jailed in 1964 for trying to blow up Franco. Anarchists really did stuff in those days.

Marianne over there - Hi Marianne!

Am a cat person really, but love the quiet patience of dogs. See http://parkeddogs.blogspot.com/

That fine Labour MP Margaret Curran there

Scottish Socialist Party contingent coming up. They used to have 7 MSPs I think. For their fall, see the refs to the Sheridan trial earlier on. They are mostly ordinary decent, concerned people, and their absence from Holyrood - where, with the Greens, they pushed through significant legislation - is unfortunate

My favourite pic - at the end of the march.

Govan Community Council bring the march to a close. For Govan see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/04/govan.html

The cavalry arrive

A siren is heard

Ambulance arriving


A 'We Belong to Glasgow' poster. See http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/red-road-flats-part-3.html

Ambulance heads off down Argyle St

Some sort of dispute breaks out between traffic cop and pedestrians. Not sure what's going on but cop seems a bit heated to me

Sometimes Glasgow gets like a Bud Neill cartoon

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Reviews of Scotland: 1000 Things You Need to Know

RADIO AND TELEVISON

'I love it - I'm giving this copy to a friend and buying another for myself' - Darren Adam, Presenter, Radio Forth, 17 November 2008

‘It’s a great wee book’ – Stephen Jardine, introducing Edwin Moore on Scottish Television’s Five-Thirty Show

'A fantastic book' - Scott Wilson , talk 107 Breakfast Show host

'A great read' - Dougie Jackson, Drivetime host, Smooth Radio 105.2

THE PRESS

'Despite its apparently humorous format, this is a serious and extensive dictionary on all things Scottish; from Jean Redpath to Lorne sausage, from Flodden to the Corries. Is particularly good on history and minutiae. There's a useful chapter on famous Scottish legal cases and another on literature. Excellent' - Royal Scottish Legion, Feb 2009

'This is the ultimate Scottish reference book' - Waterstones Christmas catalogue, 2008

'This is a fascinating look at the history of Scotland: its languages, politics and great achievements, from its origins in the ancient landmass of Laurentia 400 million years ago, to devolution and Billy Connolly. Edwin Moore has collected a thousand important facts about this beautiful country, covering Scottish history and culture, correcting misconceptions, and examining the mysteries of haggis and bagpipes with insight, warmth and impressive attention to detail' - The Good Book Guide, November 2008

'This is a recipe for revealing how horribly ill informed you are about your country. Although, if you are skillful, you can nod sagely as you read some new fact and mutter 'Ah, yes!' as if recalling the information from your excellent schooling. Where else will you find a real recipe for making haggis from scratch side by side with a potted biography of David Hume; a section of the Declaration of Arbroath and the curiously touching fact that Lulu was only 15 when she had a hit with 'Shout'? The whole thing is of course, silly - but oh so addictive.' - Matthew Perren, i-on Glasgow, December 2008

'. . . well crafted and witty' - Bill Howatson, Aberdeen Press and Journal, 18 October 2008

‘While most of Edwin’s entries are entertaining and scholarly – he writes like a Scottish Bill Bryson – it is when he takes an interest in the backwaters of history, the details lost down the back of the sofa, that he is at his best’ – Jack McKeown, The Courier, 27 October 2008

'History, it is said, is written by the victors. Trivia, meanwhile, is written by the guys with the smeared spectacles and the breathable rainwear. The first discipline is linear and causal; to quote from Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys, history is “just one f****** thing after another”. Things look different, though, when viewed through the prism of trivia. The past is reduced to one big coleslaw of fascinating facts that in their randomness tell a more mixed-up tale entirely.
The first approach leads to big, frowning books by the likes of Tom Devine and Michael Fry. The latter results in small, cheerful books such as Scotland: 1,000 Things You Need to Know, Edwin Moore’s valiant attempt to navigate the more trivial contours of enlightenment and clearances, crown and parliament, dirt and deity.
Moore proceeds from a sincere and controversial first principle: Scotland is really a rather pleasant and interesting place. . .As a work of popular scholarship, though, it’s in a different league to the Scottish novelty titles that get stocked next to the bookstore tills as potential impulse purchases, those little handbooks of parliamo Caledonia and regional braggadocio, such as Weegies vs Edinbuggers.' - Allan Brown The Sunday Times, 21 September 2008

'In his book, Scotland: 1000 Things You Need to Know, Edwin celebrates all that sets us Scots as a race apart - our language, law, flora, food, and of course, our people. From our poets, architects and inventors, to our artists, entertainers and fighters. But he doesn't shy away from the more unpleasant aspects of our history. . .' - Robert Wight, Sunday Post, 14 September 2008

‘We think we know all about William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and the Union of the Crowms. However, according to Edwin Moore, author of , Scotland: 1000 Things You Need to Know, we’re still in the dark about many aspects of our history and culture. . . The Big Issue looks at 20 of the most astonishing examples of secret Scotland.’ – The Big Issue, 18-24 September 2008

'What's the connection between Homer Simpson and Larbert, and why are generations of lawyers grateful to a Paisley snail? Need to know more? Author Edwin Moore has gathered 1000 facts like these about Scotland in a quirky new book. Brian Swanson selects a few favourites. . .' - Scottish Daily Express, 13 September 2008

'The palm for Christmas-stocking books seems to have passed recently to popular science, with best selling titles every year such as Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? This year there has been a gallant attempt at a historical fight back. Scotland: 1,000 Things You Need to Know(Atlantic Books, £12.99) asks (and answers) such post-turkey questions as ‘How many kings of Scotland died in their beds?’, ‘Who on earth decided that the Declaration of Arbroath was the cornerstone of modern democracy?’ or ‘Why is iron brew spelled Irn-Bru?’ Mark Mazower,History Today; The Best of History in 2008, December 2008

'A real treat for the serendipitous Scotophile' - Reginald Hill

FROM THE INTERWEB

www.Booksfromscotland.com (on the new paperback edition)
Book of the Month, May 2010
'Whether it's Scottish lochs or Enlightenment philosophers, the facts of the devolution referendums or the mysteries of Irn-Bru, myths will be debunked and truths revealed in this light-hearted but rigorous overview of Scottish history and culture.'

Also available for download on Amazon's e-book store is my 100 Brief Encounters (only £3.06!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Brief-Encounters-ebook/dp/B006CQ8G84/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322393003&sr=1-1

Here are some reviews of the print edition (published by Chambers in 2007) -

Edwin Moore's quirky collection of a hundred encounters between (mostly) important historical figures is a gem of a book. Where else could you get concise enlightening accounts of Henry VIII wrestling with Francis I, Geronimo surrendering to General Miles, Ernest Hemingway presenting Fidle Castro with a fishing trophy or (as seen on the books cover) a baby faced Bill Clinton shaking hands with John F Kennedy. A marvelous 'little window on human history. ' - Dominic Kennerk, Waterstone's Product Planning and Promotions Co-ordinator (From the Waterstone's 'We Recommend' list for 2008)

Witty, light and packed with information -- The Sunday Herald

In 1936, in the wake of winning a clutch of gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, the great athlete Jesse Owens was snubbed by an imperious leader, on racial grounds. Popular belief would have it that the leader was Hitler, who is said to have stormed off, furious to see a black man beating European athletes. In fact the man in question was President Roosevelt, who worried that paying attention to Owens' triumphs might be a vote loser. Although Owens and the German Chancellor never talked, Owens claimed that Hitler greeted him with an enthusiastic wave. Such near-misses, shakings of hands and ships-in-the-night meetings are the subject of Brief Encounters – Meetings between mostly remarkable people, a likeable new book by Edwin Moore (Chambers £7.99). Flicking through the index, you will find some expected encounters (Dante stares at Beatrice, Corday stabs Marat, The Beatles strum along to a Charlie Rich record round at Elvis's house), and the book's intriguing and memorable cover shows a baby-faced Bill Clinton manfully gripping the hand of JFK. But Moore has navigated past some of the more obvious collisions, collusions and confrontations of history (there is no Dr Livingstone, I presume) and much of the book's pleasure derives from lesser known incidents.

Inevitably, some of the accounts of earlier meetings are somewhat sketchy but Moore offers some piquant speculation, laced with humour (the book is tagged Reference / Humour, rather than History and this feels right, but the book, though wry and opinionated, never stoops to wackiness). I was intrigued to discover that, though Attila the Hun did die on his wedding night, it was not in drunken and lecherous debauchery, as his enemies maintained, but supposedly because he was generally a simple and clean-living man who had a few too many which brought on a particularly bad nosebleed.

Moore's book is full of such tales – it would be wrong of me to steal the tastiest morsels of his research and pepper this article with them, but look out for a subsidiary reason for the Gunpowder Plot (too many dour and powerful Scots in Parliament); a great meeting of great beards, as Castro wins the Hemingway prize for sea-fishing; Dali bringing a skeptical Freud round to the art of the surrealists; Buffalo Bill's wife claiming an aged Queen Victoria had propositioned him; Oscar Wilde getting a kiss from Walt Whitman, while Walter Scott was more taken with Burns's charismatic eyes. This is an enjoyable and vigorous rattle through some fascinating and believable yarns. My only quibble is that it's a little on the short side – let's have Volume 2 please Chambers! - Roddy Lumsden, www.Books from Scotland.com

Welcome to my wee photoblog on Glasgow, where we feature the joys and unjoys of walking and cycling through a fascinating, beautiful and often badly run city. For the blog's origin and a list of all posts see the 'Introduction' post -

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/introduction.html

Feel free to drop me an email with suggestions, offers of £20 notes etc. The address is damnyouebay@gmail.com. I have had to start watermarking the pics as I have come across one big website using a pic without permission - I suppose there must be others.

If you are a private individual and want to use any of the pics for non-commercial purposes please get in touch and I will usually be happy to say 'Aye' for free - just give the Album a credit. If you want to use a pic for commercial purposes a small mutually agreed fee and a credit will suffice.

Today we are having a wee flashback to 28 December, 2009 and we are behind Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, where a group of Vikings are demonstrating how they used to live. They are actually of course modern-day Scots but they are (I gather) pretty authentic in their reconstruction. From their website -

http://www.glasgowvikings.co.uk/

'The Scotland based re-enactment group The Glasgow Vikings come mostly from in and around Glasgow though we have many members from further a field. We practice Combat using Dark Age weapons on a regular basis, we use a vast range of period weapons such as sword, axe, bearded axe, Dane axe, spear, dagger and scramaseax to name a few. The Glasgow Vikings re-enactment group are part of the international umbrella known as The Vikings and are currently the only re enactors in Scotland within this society (though we travel to Events all over the UK). We strive to portray an account of Viking life and Battles as accurately as possible. All our costumes and accoutrements have archaeological basis. The weapons we use are real and accurate but blunted for obvious reasons. Living History takes place in our village encampment populated with our re-enactors and Viking craftsmen. This allows many period crafts to be viewed such as weaving, woodturning on an authentic pole lathe, metalworking including chain mail production, jewellery casting from pewter and many more.

We are available for school visits as we have a specialist school visit team all of whom hold a current Disclosure Scotland forms and are able to bring Viking life into the classroom to aid Viking project work on the national curriculum. For fun or educational school visits for please don't hesitate to contact us.

(To hire us for your school or for further details our contact information is in the School Visits section of the main website.)

The group can also portray - the 9th century Picts who were an ethnic group in central and northern Scotland from Roman times until the 10th century. Most historians agree that around 839 a huge battle took place in which the Pictish king and his brother died while leading his men against the Vikings.'

Domestic life among the Vikings

A big dug

There is a film called The Last of the Dogmen - I think this is the first of the Dogmen with nae heids

We are in Shields Rd perhaps

The big chap here is the novelist Robert Low, author of several fine and highly regarded Viking novels - the Oathsworn series - published by HarperCollins. The smaller chap is the model for one of the characters in the series, a friar who is picked up by the Viking band.

No idea if these guys are part of the re-enactment group but you see these musicians - or people similar to them - round about Glasgow. See
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/balloch.html

Back to the Vikings

The musicians depart

You can just about see the arrow - it is of course blunt but even so Robert and the other guy have to be sharp

Well done Robert and pals

Falconry display here also

Love the expression on the falcon's face - they do get jealous

The Book Club dappled in light

Down the Lane.

For the pies, see
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/hillhead-2-vegetarians-and-pies.html

The book sale. Book Club staff very helpful and friendly

Beautiful place

The outside stall

Opposite is Vinicombe St's other 'A' listed building. See
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/hillhead-4-botanic-gardens-garage.html

Round the corner in Byres Rd, we find a clarsach player

Up the escalator we go. . .

. . .into Partick Station

Ranald MacColl's fine statue of Bud Neill's GI Bride

For the companion statue - and more on the great Bud Neill - see Lobey Dosser Day
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/06/lobey-dosser-day.html

Let's head out

Emerging into Merkland St. . .

. . .where buses gather to rest and graze for a while

The light is gloriously vibrant. . .

. . .unlike me

Looking back at Partick Station

On beautiful mornings like this - it is just after 11- we are reminded of the 'Glasgow Effect', summed up here by the admirable Carol Craig -

http://www.centreforconfidence.co.uk/carolsblog.php?id=284&blogid=1

'The researchers found that most of the differences between 'Glasgow' and the rest of the country could be accounted for by socio-economic and other variable such as deprivation. However there were four differences between 'Glasgow' and the rest of Scotland. The first is anxiety. Those living in 'Glasgow' had a '92% higher risk of anxiety than those living elsewhere' (after controlling for deprivation). Another difference was that people in "Glasgow'' had '42% increased odds of having a doctor-diagnosed heart attack' again after adjusting for socio-economic and other variables. "Glasgow ' folk also scored higher scores (worse) than those in the rest of Scotland on the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). High scores can indicate 'possible psychiatric disorder'. Finally men in "Glasgow' were more likely to be overweight.

There is one major flaw in this study which means that it is telling us practically nothing about 'the Glasgow effect'. The geographical unit used to compare the city with rest of Scotland is not Glasgow City, it is not even Greater Glasgow – including areas which are adjacent to the city such as Eastwood or Milngavie – but Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board Area. Apart from the City of Glasgow itself this includes: East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire and Inverclyde. By no stretch of the imagination would people ever see Gourock, East Kilbride or Hamilton as Glasgow yet they are part of this study and being classed as 'Glasgow' for the purposes of the 'Glasgow Effect' title.

In truth this report is a study of a densely populated part of the West of Scotland. What is being measured is not 'the Glasgow Effect' but 'the West of Scotland effect'. '

Great stuff - please do read the whole of Carol's piece. Partick and Calton - see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/calton.html

are very much the sort of areas people think of when they ponder 'the Glasgow Effect'. As pointed out in the Calton entry, there is some questionable World Health Organisation data going round; the death rate in Calton, for example, has been skewed by the presence of hostels in which single men from around Scotland find their way to, and where they may well die. See the Bellgrove here (another fine day), where I once saw a man die on the pavement -

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/welcome-to-glasgow-4-rutherglen-to_28.html

Life

Coming into Dumbarton Rd

Looking east down towards Partick Cross - we will post some pics of that stretch of Dumbarton Rd at some point

But we will be heading west under the railway bridge there

Busy Partick Post Office - friendly staff

Looking back down Merkland St

Looking up Peel St, where you will find the West of Scotland Cricket Club; see
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/cricket.html

For Partick Burgh Hall (just round the corner there ) and a fine night in honour of Janey Buchan see

h ttp://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/remembering-janey-buchan.html

Support a Scottish Charity

Mega Amusments

The old pub over there (founded 1904) was the Hayburn Vaults until very recently -

http://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/hayburnvaults.html

I hate it when they change pub names - especially to something as dull this

Pressing on

Poundland

We'll cross back over here. . .

. . . have a look down the lane

U. S. A. Nails - American Designs

Contented looking Buddha

Looking back

Beauty Solutions all in One

Looking down Hayburn St - Clyde down there

Credit Union, Cash4Clothes, white van, Oliver, lovemyclothes, Station Flowers

A Holistic Spa

The Windsor tavern. One of many Glasgow pubs bedecked in union jacks during the Olympics

We're heading up Crow Rd over there

Further down Dumbarton Rd is the end of an interesting walk - see
South Street to Thornwood: an 'X'-Listed' walk in which we encounter the Secret State
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/07/south-street-to-thornwood-x-listed-walk.html

We have re-crossed Dumbarton Rd

No Smoking during the sale of Bright Star Fireworks. What a useful sign

Hello small person

Looking up Crow Rd. About a mile or so up the road there is Anniesland -
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/anniesland.html

Coming up to Shopping Centre

Partick Baptist Church

Partick Free (Continuing) Church. The 'continuing' refers to the schism of a few decades ago.

Another sign up ahead.

In this Sign Conquer

Looking back down Crow Rd

Sainsbury's ahead

Faithful hound

Back in Dumbarton Rd

Bikes for sale

Volunteers needed

Roastit Bubbly Jocks Bistro

Train overhead

Back in Merkland St

Top Prices Paid

For Him

So here we are at Partick Bridge, looking back east at Kelvin Hall on right, Kelvingrove Museum on left

On the bridge

The Kelvin below us

Beginning our walk westwards along Argyle St

Western Hospital up there on our right; some of the best A&E staff in the country and a handful of truly appalling porters

; Thurso St on our left here leading to the splendidly named Dunaskin St. Some interesting buildings down there. Note the Dark Tower

A sign

Looking back

Passing the big Salvation Army store

Coming up to Partick Cross

Looking back

One or two of these will be a bitty blurry; camera handheld at slow shutter speeds

Not sure why this post box is closer to shops than road

haloglasgow.com

At Partick Cross; we will be heading down Dumbarton Rd, the other side

Looking back

Looking up Byres Rd

Into Dumbarton Rd

Kelvinhall Underground

The Dolphin. They have a great painting inside of Henrik Larrson as Michelangelo's Adam. Part of one of the unbroadcast episodes of the BBC series Bellamy's People was filmed here - I played a punter chatting to Paul Whitehouse's character, 'The Bonnie Prince of Scotland'. Not only is Whitehouse (as Johnny Depp said) a great actor, he is also a great bloke. I have some pics of that day, will post at some point.

Looking back

The long view west

Dowanhill St off to our right

Takes you up to Hyndland, the houses get pricier the further up you go. See

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/05/as-wiki-says-hyndland-i-s-prime.html

Pressing on

KILTS 4 U

But who will guard the Guardians?

The Lios Mor ('Lismore') - a popular pub, especially with the many Gaels from the Western Isles in Partick

Mansfield St on our right

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

Looking back

ESCO

Panto ad

Hyndland St over there

'Join the March'. We did. See http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/stuc-march-against-public-spending-cuts.html

Storm Queen on left - Poker Tonight

The Future. It's murder, says Leonard Cohen

Church of Scotland parish church

Camera shake again

Cash Generator

Cash for Gold - the British high street as it is these days

Note poster: 'Lawyers in legal aid protest'

Coming up to Partick Library - a fine building from an unimaginably distant past

Pressing on

Crossing over road

TNT FIREWORKS SOLD HERE - on 14 November. Are we meant to stock up for 5/11 2013?

Looking

back - library aglow

Gardner St - pretty steep at far end

World of Sandwiches. If I ever open a sandwich shop in Glasgow I will call it 'Piece in our Time'

BETFRED, pawn shop, Papa Gills, Chapattis

The Victoria

Cheque Centre

Fortrose St on right

Looking up Fortrose St

MEGA AMUSEMENTS

'Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower'

Vine St over there

Looking back

Instant cash

The ubiquitous Ramsdens: Pawnbroking Loans

Fat Burners

Merkland St over there on left - we'll pop round to Crow Rd before crossing over for Underground

Looking back

More MEGA AMUSEMENTS

This shop is Bright House, a chain that sells HP to the poor

Poundland on our right - dumped or maybe stolen bike outside

Looking back

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS

HOT! Spray tan booth

A pre-owned wheelchair

Looking over at Rosevale pub and Rosevale St

In Crow Rd Shopping Centre

Heading back to Dumbarton Rd

An old-style tenement close entry

Back in Dumbarton Rd

We have crossed road - Turkish barber shop

Looking back

Coming into Merkland St

. . .But past the heaps of shirts and trousers
Spread the stands of Modes For Night:
Machine-embroidered, thin as blouses, Lemon, sapphire, moss-green, rose
Bri-Nylon Baby-Dolls and shorties
Flounce in clusters. To suppose
They share that world, to think their sort is
Matched by something in it, shows
How separate and unearthly love is,

Or women are, or what they do,
Or in our young unreal wishes
Seem to be: synthetic, new,
And natureless in ecstasies.'
- Larkin

Partick Underground down there

HI to the Bride

Emerging out of Kinning Park Underground

We;re heading down Scotland St West past that white caravan

The Expressway

Clothing and shoe bank

Christmas Coffee Morning

Heading on

Looking back

Message on the wall

Hi!

Looking back.

Joggers coming

Love the facade - like an old Santa Fe building


Looking back

Something inorganic becoming organic

Middlesex St - let's have a quick look round it

Looking back

Squinty Bridge down there

A portal

This and the following pic were actually taken a couple of weeks earlier. . .

. . .when the blind was up

Signs on the ground

Caution indeed

'Signs are taken for wonders'

Nice arch. . .

. . .these also

Looking back

A gully

Heading back into Scotland St West, we spot a tourist bus

Doing industrial heritage, no doubt

A cheery greeting from the top deck

And off they go

Now in Portman St

We'll take a ramble down there before heading into Portman St

Glasgow Loves Christmas. As you can see from our recent Dumbarton Rd walks, the money lenders - wonga and the like - make the real killing at Christmas

For our foray down here - Stanley Street - see the previous Tradeston walk linked to above

Let's follow the path to the end

Looking back

Paisley Rd

Heading back

More Rowan beries

Now back in Portman St to continue our walk

The excellent Climbing Academy. Visit their website

Looking through the window

CCTV everywhere here

The old News International building. Rupert Murdoch employs over 6000 people in Scotland - I am one of his pensioners

Push the buttons - no one home

We are now in Milnpark St

Stanley St Lane

The News International building

Heading on up Portman St

A survival of Pollokshields United Presbyterian Church

Emerging briefly into Paisley Rd West. In the distance on the rooftop we can just about see. . .

. . .the Angel of Govan. For which see previous Kingston walk

View back down Portman St where we are heading again

A pale sun

Back at the News International building

A fine doorway

A fine entrance here also

The white outline makes me think of George Bernard Shaw seen from behind

In Middlesex St, wandering up to Paisley Rd West again

The Finnieston Crane

Heading back down Middlesex St

Middlesex Gardens

We're heading down there. . .

. . .into Sussex St

We are heading down Tower St on right to Lambhill St

We'll take a wee look down here first though

Now in Lambhill St

Lambhill Court care Home: 'A simply superior style of living'

Heading on

Looking back

Back in West Scotland St

At Kelvinbridge

Much better than the one on our walk to Barlinnie - http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/welcome-to-glasgow-5-alexandra-parade.html

We are walking to Byres Rd. Was one here.

Sunlight in the rooms of the old Hillhead Primary school

In ByresRd

A parked dog outside Waitrose. See

http://parkeddogs.blogspot.com

Thank you for browsing, dear visitor. My other wee blogs are

http://parkeddogs.blogspot.com/

http://buddhasblackdog.blogspot.com/

Reviews of Scotland: 1000 Things You Need to Know

RADIO AND TELEVISON

'I love it - I'm giving this copy to a friend and buying another for myself' - Darren Adam, Presenter, Radio Forth, 17 November 2008

‘It’s a great wee book’ – Stephen Jardine, introducing Edwin Moore on Scottish Television’s Five-Thirty Show

'A fantastic book' - Scott Wilson , talk 107 Breakfast Show host

'A great read' - Dougie Jackson, Drivetime host, Smooth Radio 105.2

THE PRESS

'Despite its apparently humorous format, this is a serious and extensive dictionary on all things Scottish; from Jean Redpath to Lorne sausage, from Flodden to the Corries. Is particularly good on history and minutiae. There's a useful chapter on famous Scottish legal cases and another on literature. Excellent' - Royal Scottish Legion, Feb 2009

'This is the ultimate Scottish reference book' - Waterstones Christmas catalogue, 2008

'This is a fascinating look at the history of Scotland: its languages, politics and great achievements, from its origins in the ancient landmass of Laurentia 400 million years ago, to devolution and Billy Connolly. Edwin Moore has collected a thousand important facts about this beautiful country, covering Scottish history and culture, correcting misconceptions, and examining the mysteries of haggis and bagpipes with insight, warmth and impressive attention to detail' - The Good Book Guide, November 2008

'This is a recipe for revealing how horribly ill informed you are about your country. Although, if you are skillful, you can nod sagely as you read some new fact and mutter 'Ah, yes!' as if recalling the information from your excellent schooling. Where else will you find a real recipe for making haggis from scratch side by side with a potted biography of David Hume; a section of the Declaration of Arbroath and the curiously touching fact that Lulu was only 15 when she had a hit with 'Shout'? The whole thing is of course, silly - but oh so addictive.' - Matthew Perren, i-on Glasgow, December 2008

'. . . well crafted and witty' - Bill Howatson, Aberdeen Press and Journal, 18 October 2008

‘While most of Edwin’s entries are entertaining and scholarly – he writes like a Scottish Bill Bryson – it is when he takes an interest in the backwaters of history, the details lost down the back of the sofa, that he is at his best’ – Jack McKeown, The Courier, 27 October 2008

'History, it is said, is written by the victors. Trivia, meanwhile, is written by the guys with the smeared spectacles and the breathable rainwear. The first discipline is linear and causal; to quote from Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys, history is “just one f****** thing after another”. Things look different, though, when viewed through the prism of trivia. The past is reduced to one big coleslaw of fascinating facts that in their randomness tell a more mixed-up tale entirely.
The first approach leads to big, frowning books by the likes of Tom Devine and Michael Fry. The latter results in small, cheerful books such as Scotland: 1,000 Things You Need to Know, Edwin Moore’s valiant attempt to navigate the more trivial contours of enlightenment and clearances, crown and parliament, dirt and deity.
Moore proceeds from a sincere and controversial first principle: Scotland is really a rather pleasant and interesting place. . .As a work of popular scholarship, though, it’s in a different league to the Scottish novelty titles that get stocked next to the bookstore tills as potential impulse purchases, those little handbooks of parliamo Caledonia and regional braggadocio, such as Weegies vs Edinbuggers.' - Allan Brown The Sunday Times, 21 September 2008

'In his book, Scotland: 1000 Things You Need to Know, Edwin celebrates all that sets us Scots as a race apart - our language, law, flora, food, and of course, our people. From our poets, architects and inventors, to our artists, entertainers and fighters. But he doesn't shy away from the more unpleasant aspects of our history. . .' - Robert Wight, Sunday Post, 14 September 2008

‘We think we know all about William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and the Union of the Crowms. However, according to Edwin Moore, author of , Scotland: 1000 Things You Need to Know, we’re still in the dark about many aspects of our history and culture. . . The Big Issue looks at 20 of the most astonishing examples of secret Scotland.’ – The Big Issue, 18-24 September 2008

'What's the connection between Homer Simpson and Larbert, and why are generations of lawyers grateful to a Paisley snail? Need to know more? Author Edwin Moore has gathered 1000 facts like these about Scotland in a quirky new book. Brian Swanson selects a few favourites. . .' - Scottish Daily Express, 13 September 2008

'The palm for Christmas-stocking books seems to have passed recently to popular science, with best selling titles every year such as Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? This year there has been a gallant attempt at a historical fight back. Scotland: 1,000 Things You Need to Know(Atlantic Books, £12.99) asks (and answers) such post-turkey questions as ‘How many kings of Scotland died in their beds?’, ‘Who on earth decided that the Declaration of Arbroath was the cornerstone of modern democracy?’ or ‘Why is iron brew spelled Irn-Bru?’ Mark Mazower,History Today; The Best of History in 2008, December 2008

'A real treat for the serendipitous Scotophile' - Reginald Hill

FROM THE INTERWEB

www.Booksfromscotland.com (on the new paperback edition)
Book of the Month, May 2010
'Whether it's Scottish lochs or Enlightenment philosophers, the facts of the devolution referendums or the mysteries of Irn-Bru, myths will be debunked and truths revealed in this light-hearted but rigorous overview of Scottish history and culture.'

Also available for download on Amazon's e-book store is my 100 Brief Encounters (only £3.06!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Brief-Encounters-ebook/dp/B006CQ8G84/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322393003&sr=1-1

Here are some reviews of the print edition (published by Chambers in 2007) -

Edwin Moore's quirky collection of a hundred encounters between (mostly) important historical figures is a gem of a book. Where else could you get concise enlightening accounts of Henry VIII wrestling with Francis I, Geronimo surrendering to General Miles, Ernest Hemingway presenting Fidle Castro with a fishing trophy or (as seen on the books cover) a baby faced Bill Clinton shaking hands with John F Kennedy. A marvelous 'little window on human history. ' - Dominic Kennerk, Waterstone's Product Planning and Promotions Co-ordinator (From the Waterstone's 'We Recommend' list for 2008)

Witty, light and packed with information -- The Sunday Herald

In 1936, in the wake of winning a clutch of gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, the great athlete Jesse Owens was snubbed by an imperious leader, on racial grounds. Popular belief would have it that the leader was Hitler, who is said to have stormed off, furious to see a black man beating European athletes. In fact the man in question was President Roosevelt, who worried that paying attention to Owens' triumphs might be a vote loser. Although Owens and the German Chancellor never talked, Owens claimed that Hitler greeted him with an enthusiastic wave. Such near-misses, shakings of hands and ships-in-the-night meetings are the subject of Brief Encounters – Meetings between mostly remarkable people, a likeable new book by Edwin Moore (Chambers £7.99). Flicking through the index, you will find some expected encounters (Dante stares at Beatrice, Corday stabs Marat, The Beatles strum along to a Charlie Rich record round at Elvis's house), and the book's intriguing and memorable cover shows a baby-faced Bill Clinton manfully gripping the hand of JFK. But Moore has navigated past some of the more obvious collisions, collusions and confrontations of history (there is no Dr Livingstone, I presume) and much of the book's pleasure derives from lesser known incidents.

Inevitably, some of the accounts of earlier meetings are somewhat sketchy but Moore offers some piquant speculation, laced with humour (the book is tagged Reference / Humour, rather than History and this feels right, but the book, though wry and opinionated, never stoops to wackiness). I was intrigued to discover that, though Attila the Hun did die on his wedding night, it was not in drunken and lecherous debauchery, as his enemies maintained, but supposedly because he was generally a simple and clean-living man who had a few too many which brought on a particularly bad nosebleed.

Moore's book is full of such tales – it would be wrong of me to steal the tastiest morsels of his research and pepper this article with them, but look out for a subsidiary reason for the Gunpowder Plot (too many dour and powerful Scots in Parliament); a great meeting of great beards, as Castro wins the Hemingway prize for sea-fishing; Dali bringing a skeptical Freud round to the art of the surrealists; Buffalo Bill's wife claiming an aged Queen Victoria had propositioned him; Oscar Wilde getting a kiss from Walt Whitman, while Walter Scott was more taken with Burns's charismatic eyes. This is an enjoyable and vigorous rattle through some fascinating and believable yarns. My only quibble is that it's a little on the short side – let's have Volume 2 please Chambers! - Roddy Lumsden, www.Books from Scotland.com

Coming out of Partick Underground. . .

. . .past the radiant phone kiosk

. . . into Dumbarton Rd

. . .past the butcher

. . .past the card shop

. . .the newsagent

. . .the tailor's

. . .the Turkish barber

. . .under the bridge and Poundland

. . .to Crow Rd on right. We are heading straight on

The Manchurian. 'Cantonese and Thai Cuisine'

Prosperity - next door to. . .

Faith, Hope & Charity

Spar Window - Pay Point and Free Cash. . .

. . . over there

Blythswood Care

Looking up Apsley St

Hope in a Careless World

The Emmaus Glasgow van. See

http://www.emmaus.org.uk/glasgow

From the website -
'Emmaus Glasgow is the first Emmaus Community in Scotland and opened in January 2006. The community provides living and workspace for up to 24 companions and is located in Hamiltonhill about 1.5 miles from the city centre. The community shop is open to visitors 4 days a week ( Tues - Fri). Donations of furniture and bric a brac are welcome. For more detailed information visit the Emmaus Glasgow website.

'The Emmaus Solidarity Shop opened before the Glasgow community and is located at 576 Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow G12 6RH. The shop collects and sells second-hand goods (furniture, bric-a-brac, clothing and books). If you wish to donate any goods please call during the opening hours of 9am - 4 pm Mon - Sat. Telephone 0141 342 4089.'

Looking left to the Clyde

The Emmaus shop

Reflexologist

Looking south again to the river

Looking in the Chieftain Arts Ltd window

Not the cheeriest of images

'One Last Look'

Great tiles. There are wonders galore on Glasgow shop fronts

Looking back

Thornwood Park on our right - Let's pop over and have a look

Thornwood Park is an odd wee park. Indeed (I have just discovered) it is not even marked on the compact Phillip's Street Atlas of Glasgow for 2007

Mini standing stones or perhaps grave stones. Why? There are similar stones of mysterious purpose at Ruchill Park playground - http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/ruchill-park.html

Cranes in distance

Looking up

Heading back down to Dumbarton Rd

Wee lane on our right

Let's have a keek in

Heading back out the lane

There are many Harry's Bars throughout the world. This is Glasgow's - Under New Management.

690 Dumbarton Rd

'Lotto'

Number Plate Centre and Children's Entertainer

The stuff of nightmares

Hair & Beauty

African Shop -To Let

We link up with another walk here, South St to Thornwood, a great walk in which we are harassed by BAE security and pass such interesting landmarks as Great Western Auctions (not the jolly, welcoming place it seems on Bargain Hunt, oh dearie me no). See http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/07/south-street-to-thornwood-x-listed-walk.html

The long vista up Thornwood Drive

Al fresco

Home Brew

At Broomhill Drive now

An old school - a Development Opportunity

We're heading back now

Keep Calm and Carry On. And the lovely RNLI flag. And the Saltire. Not sure what the red flag above is. Maybe the Red Flag. My interest is flagging

Spiritual Fair

Looking back down the length of Dumbarton Rd

The University Tower in the distance

Looking back at Broomhill Drive end

Back at Thornwood Park

Let's nip into Exeter Drive

Looking back down on Dumbarton Rd

Radiator Gallery - let's hope their radiators are more cheerful than the prints in the Chieftain Gallery

Passing the Methodist church again

Opening up next door

Now back at Crow Rd

Turning right here. . .

. . .Back into Merkland St for Partick Underground

Those Dark Autumn Mornings in Partick. Been quite bright this morning, but we know what they mean

Glasgow Loves Christmas. . .

As do the Moneylenders and the buyers of gold. . .

But sometimes Grace can be found under a crown of thorns. . .

And Charity can bring Hope to the world

Pics from

A Kingston Walk 2
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/a-kingston-walk-2.html

Partick Bridge to Partick Underground: an Evening Stroll
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/a-kingston-walk-2.html

Welcome to Glasgow 5: Alexandra Parade to Barlinnie
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/welcome-to-glasgow-5-alexandra-parade.html

Crow Rd to Broomhill Drive
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/crow-rd-to-broomhill-drive.html

In a rather damp Clyde St. Over there we see . . .

. . .the statue of Dolores Ibarruru (1895-1989) - La Pasionara - see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/swingergate-day-45-waiting-for-verdict.html

The fine Portland Street Suspension Bridge. For more on Glasgow's bridges as we pass them see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/welcome-to-glasgow-3-charing-cross.html

Development on our left

Looking back

Bridgegate down there on left. See

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/paddys-market-last-day.html

We are going to cross over Victoria Bridge on left there (see last walk reference), the oldest (1854) complete bridge in Glasgow. One of the two widest bridges n Britain in the 1850s (Glasgow also had the other one).

On the bridge

A memorial

Have no idea how this boy died. A friend of mine drowned a few yards from here in the course of some horseplay

For more on the custom of waterside memorials see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/sampler-1-some-forth-and-clyde-canal.html

Pressing on

Looking back

Glasgow Nautical College

Glasgow Central Mosque

A wider view

Glasgow Sheriff Court coming up. We are in Gorbals St now

Looking back

The Court catching the sun

The minaret

One of the largest mosques in Europe, the Glasgow Central Mosque saw a spat a few years ago about women being allowed to vote at the mosque. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8673213.stm

Mosque flowers

Citizens Theatre on left

Citizens Rose Garden over there - no time to go and look but looks emptier since last time we were -

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/gorbals-3-saltmarket-to-tradeston.html

Isolated tenement building

The Rose Garden

Looking left into Cleland St

See link above for more on the unusual graffiti such as this which can be found on neighboring walls. The teaching of Glasgow imams tends to be conservative in nature - such imams often emphasise the 'We are Slaves of Allah' message so my guess is this and other such sloganising round about this part of the Gorbals is the work of disaffected Muslim yoof. The spelling is always good, another sign that it is not the work of the average Glasgow ned - indeed one daub (see last link for pic) says 'Fuck all Neds'.

Crossing through the trees to go back onto Gorbals St

Heading under bridge

Looking back

The Brazen Head over there - famous Celtic pub

Beyond the pub and past the bridge is the tower and all that remains of one of Europe's great buildings. See Alexander Greek Thomson
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/05/alexander-greek-thomson.html

Roads are slippy so we have jumped on a bus to take us to Victoria Rd

Temperature is 4 degrees centigrade

We are at Eglinton Toll. Pollokshaws Rd over on our right - we will walk back that way

Victoria Rd up ahead.

We have debussed.

For more on Victoria Rd and Govanhill / Crosshill see
Govanhill
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/04/govanhill.html
Govanhill 2: Messages in the Rain
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/08/govanhill-2-messages-in-rain.html

Well we have bought a kettle in Lidl and we need a pee so we have gone to Pollokshaws Rd where we will have a pit stop at the Tramway in Albert Drive.

The Tramway

Looking up Albert Drive, the main drag of Pollokshields. See Pollokshields: Glasgow's Muslim Community
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pollokshields-glasgows-muslim-community.html

Heading back to Pollokshaws Rd

We are going to walk north, down Eglinton St to Bridge St Underground

'The doorway to a new way of life is fast closing' - story of all our lives eh

Looking back

Rather disturbing image

Super Asia

Exclusive hmm

Coming back up to Eglinton Toll and the Star Bar building; Glasgow's answer to new York's Flat Iron building

MOT sensation - haud me back

Eglinton Medical Centre

Precious Memories

Is that the Glasgow wheel down there that used to defile George Square?

Well no - no idea what it is

Kashmir Stores

For Enigma Bodies

Cash for clothes

The Appian Way

Great Arnold Clark building


Tradeston on our left. For more on Tradeston and this area see http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/11/gorbals-3-saltmarket-to-tradeston.html

We're getting the underground soon - let's digress briefly to left

For that fine art deco building, see last link

Rubbish Removal - cheap rates

A Rangers sticker. See Glasgow Rangers 2: the 50,000 sellout match
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012_02_01_archive.html

Radical Independence Conference. 'Another Scotland is Possible'. This rally reflects the assumption among many on the left that English and Scottish politics are radically different and that an independent Scotland would be a socialist Scotland. This assumption itself rests on a whole raft of dubious assumptions. We shall try to summarise our views on this in the next post

And so to Bridge St Underground

The 19th-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen came up with a theory of 'Russian exceptionalism'. To summarise in a possibly trivial fashion, he meant that Russians were better than other peoples - more collective in nature, fairer and with an innate sense of justice. At some point this meretricious warble migrated to Scotland and has become part of the modern national myth, with the 'other peoples' being narrowed down to our neighbours, the English.

The writer Kevin Williamson is a notable promulgator of this fantasy - according to which English and Scottish politics are divergent because Scots are more left-wing and socially cohesive than the English.

Being lazy, I will repeat something I posted on the estimable Lallands Peat Worrier's blog

http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/for-that-episode-7-creative-recountancy.html

on the question -

'More generally, is it helpful to think of Scotland a more left-inflected nation, politically, than our southern neighbours, or is this a unconvincing myth?'

'It is a myth surely. As someone pointed out the other day, the SNP itself in the last few decades has gone from right wing to left wing to an odd mixture of both. As for being a bulwark against the tyranny of world capitalism, according to Torrance and others Salmond has come to believe in the Laffer Curve and low taxation, the twin pillars of neoliberalism. If independence comes in 2014, there is no earthly reason why in a few years a right-wing Holyrood might not be glaring over the border at a left-wing Westminster.

Taking a longer historical perspective, the vision of a rooted carey-sharey Scotland melts like a Tunnock's tea cake in a microwave. Dundee in the Edwardian era (see Tom Devine's To the Ends of the Earth) was a city of contrasts that shocked visitors - rapacious capitalists at the top, desperately poor people at the bottom and a middle class doing rather nicely, thank you.

I mind being at a book launch at the Signet - a friendly aristo pointed out to me a plump huddle of advocates disappearing into a room and saying something like 'they will always do fine no matter what happens to the rest of us', meaning the Scottish middle classes in general. For sure.'

What Williamson and others are saying is something that would be immediately perceived as risible if uttered by, for example, a Serb writer. Just as some Scots have come to believe that Scots have socialism and collectivism in their DNA, so some Serbs believe their nation is a special one, prone to martyrdom. A Scot transplanted to Serbia would thus doubtless be so proud of the joint heritage that he would commit suicide.

We shall [sigh] return to this irony-free fest at some future point.

Just some figures in our landscape

We can project on them what we like

We are all Strangers in a Strange Land

Welcome to my wee photoblog on Glasgow, where we feature the joys and unjoys of walking and cycling through a fascinating, beautiful and often badly run city. For the blog's origin and a list of all posts see the 'Introduction' post -

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/introduction.html

Feel free to drop me an email with suggestions, offers of £20 notes etc. The address is damnyouebay@gmail.com. I have had to start watermarking the pics as I have come across one big website using a pic without permission - I suppose there must be others.

If you are a private individual and want to use any of the pics for non-commercial purposes please get in touch and I will usually be happy to say 'Aye' for free - just give the Album a credit. If you want to use a pic for commercial purposes a small mutually agreed fee and a credit will suffice.

Today is a special piece featuring the demolition of the Springburn Burgh Halls and the ongoing decay of the A-listed Winter Gardens in Springburn Park. This is the letter my friend Ian Brooke wrote to the Glasgow Herald (3 Jan) -

http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/comment/letters/let-glasgow-flourish-through-maintaining-its-built-heritage.19819643
'ON returning to Springburn after a trip away for Christmas, I discovered to my horror that the view from my flat is irrevocably altered following the demolition of Springburn Burgh Halls. Yet another landmark from Glasgow's illustrious industrial past is now lost.

In the early 1990s, the City of Glasgow District Council published a Springburn Heritage Trail booklet. The final paragraph of the entry on Springburn Public Halls reads: "This magnificent Victorian fancy embodies the local people's pride in their engineering achievement, by implication the product of a civilisation the equal of the ancient Greeks."

With the destruction of the Burgh Halls, what price now the survival of the long-derelict Winter Gardens in Springburn Park?'

Very good question Ian!

For pics of the demolition of the Burgh Halls see

http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=25074&st=30

Here are three pics of the Burgh Halls (in the background) at the time of the November 2009 by-election -

Note how the Halls sits imposingly at the top of Keppochill Rd - like the head of some mythological creature I used to think as I cycled past. I have more detailed pics of it before decay set in so badly but they are on Kodachrome at the bottom of a large box. Will hopefully dig out.

For more on the election see
Glasgow North-East by-election 2009

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/springburn-by-election-2009.html

For more on Springburn see
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/springburn.html

And here are three pics by Ian of the Winter Gardens - A-listed remember.

The Winter Gardens have their own Twitter site:

https://twitter.com/SpringburnWG

We are on a traffic island

Masts like ship masts

Let;s pop (carefully) over to that side

Over there is all part of the Glasgow Harbour development - shamefully I know little of what's going on. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Harbour

Looking west along the Expressway

Nice cloudscape

Catching the sun. The street west past that building leads on to South St. See our linked walks here -

South Street to Thornwood: an 'X'-Listed' walk in which we encounter the Secret State http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/07/south-street-to-thornwood-x-listed-walk.html
Update to South Street Walk
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/09/update-to-south-street-walk.html
Welcome to Glasgow 2: the Yoker Rd
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/11/welcome-to-glasgow-2-yoker-rd.html

Cars down there heading towards Partick Cross. Traffic quiet, but we are a tad exposed here

Clydebank to the west

Train going past

Back on safer ground. that is a pretty footbridge

Looking east into the city

For a walk to the SECC over there see

Yorkhill Park to the SECC to Finnieston
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/yorkhill-park-to-secc-to-finnieston.html

A chronology under our feet

Looking east

Looking west

Heading to Kelvin Hall Underground

Sun is bright at Kelvinbridge

We are looking east but will be heading west

We'll ditch the bike today and take a bus - bus stop across road on left

At the bus stop

Here comes our 66 bus

And here we are at Anniesland where we spot a poster for the Glasgow Skye Association Dance at Gl;asgow Uni - we'll miss that one alas

'From Jordan' - can't mind what this shop was

Heading down here for Morrisons. . .

. . .after we take a few pics on Gt Western Rd. Looking east. . .

. . .looking west

Looking back. For more on Anniesland, see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/anniesland.html

Great clouds

Anniesland Court is Scotland's tallest listed building - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniesland_Court. It was built in 1968, and as Wiki says, the more famous Goldfinger-designed (and later built) Trellick Tower looks very like it.

This is the Temple- Anniesland church nestling below Anniesland court. see

http://www.tachurch.org.uk/welcome.htm

'Temple' derives from the Knights Templar who owned land round here. See
http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/knightstemplar.htm

Looking back

Morrisons ahead. Not a listed building

And here we are back at night

An advert against forced marriage. The text reads

'Forced Marriage. I said no. If I can do it so can you. '

'yourrightscotland.org' is not particularly helpful. This is the proper website link -

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/crimes/forced-marriage

The night also has its clouds

Here we are at Charing Cross. For what Charing Cross looks like from the bridge above, see
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/woodlands.html

Looking back: Woodlands Rd on left, St George's Rd on right

Crossing over

The Big Top on our left is a great toy shop - the owners are very helpful. And they have had lovely dogs

You tell us pal

Starbucks. We don't do Starbucks. Even I pay more tax than them

Now turning the corner into Sauchiehall St

Doorway has seen better days

globespan no more

I love it when I see 'FINE HOLM'

Royal Highland Fusiliers museum over there on our left. Been there for yonks, let's take a closer look

Am not sure, but think that is a letter signed by Churchill beneath the Kilty bag sign. If so, seems a shame to hide it.

Big Apple to let

There is a bigger Boots further down we will come to. For the moment the street still supports two branches it seems.

UPDATE 4 February

The portrait over there is by an Australian artist called Peter Drew

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/putting-a-name-to-the-faces-as-artist-is-unmasked.20080787

'Huge faces, almost 8ft high. On hoardings, down litter-choked alleyways, on nondescript streets, in little unloved corners of Glasgow they turned up, usually in sets of two. Some have disappeared quickly. Others have remained for weeks, even months. The first, on Sauchiehall Street, is still there.' His Facebook page is

http://www.facebook.com/PeterDrewArts

We'll have a look at this fine deco building from across the road in a minute

We're over at Elmbank St

King's Theatre just visible there on our right on Bath St. For a walk from there to Glasgow Cathedral, see

King's Theatre to Glasgow Cathedral: a November Walk
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/12/kings-theatre-to-glasgow-cathedral.html

The excellent King's Cafe. My sister was in here with the Jacksons in the 70s. Michael struck up a friendship with my brother who was building a set at the King's. Vanished world.

The great Beresford Hotel. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beresford_Hotel

From wiki:

'The Beresford, situated at 460 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It opened in 1938 to provide accommodation for those attending the city's Empire Exhibition and was often described as Glasgow's first skyscraper, being the tallest building erected in Glasgow between the two world wars, at 10 storeys high. It is one of the city's most notable examples of Art Deco/Streamline Moderne architecture,[1] and is protected as a category B listed building.'

Back in Sauchiehall St. My sister once took Dolly Parton for a walk down Sauchiehall St. She fitted in very well.

All Enquiries. Why are we here?

Garnet St up there

A good purposeful stride, sir

I can't believe it's not Buddha

Escape to Nirvana

STUB IT OUT

Dental Hospital on left. Many a sore jaw has entered here

Kama Sutra Restaurant. For food lovers

Let's have a look at Kama Sutra

Curry and Karaoke, more than you can handle - haud me back

Into view now, we find Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Grecian Buildings. For more on this wonderful architect see

Alexander Greek Thomson
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/05/alexander-greek-thomson.html
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson 2: the Egyptian Halls Part 1: the Interior
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/02/alexander-greek-thomson-2-egyptian.html
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson 3: the Egyptian Halls Part 2: the Exterior
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/02/alexander-greek-thomson-3-egyptian.html
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson 4: Eton Terrace, 41-53 Oakfield Avenue
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/09/alexander-greek-thomson-4-eton-terrace.html
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson 5: Glasgow City Free Church
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/09/alexander-greek-thomson-5-glasgow-city.html
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson 6: the Sixty Steps
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2012/01/alexander-greek-thomson-6-sixty-steps.html
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson 7: the Sixty Steps 2
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/alexander-greek-thomson-7-sixty-steps-2.html …

The CCA - still the Third Eye Centre to some of us

Great title

Glasgow School of Art up there and Garnethill. See

Garnethill
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/garnethill.html

Let's have a look at the old kiltmaker

Scotty had a kilt made here

Hire for Life - well maybe. See 'Advice for Life' further down

Well, each to his own, but I wouldn't wear it

Ring Andy if you fancy the coffee shop

This is just silly

Let's move on

291 Sauchiehall St, the Party Shop. Let's have a keek inside the close

You

This is where they store giant Xmas trees

Warden having a look

Evocative paintings of Burns in the St Margaret Hospice shop

The lass is turning away - nae wonder

A guy doing his job - as a cyclist and walker, I say more power to you sir

Ans so we leave the Burns Unit

Face at the window

Greggs. I used to collect previous-day rolls from the Maryhill Greggs for a Kirk soup run to George Square. Good firm.

The inevitable Cheque Centre

Biggars. Here for Yonks. Great shop

Looking back

Wok this way

Jessops went bust few weeks ago

Jeremy Clarkson wrote an excellent Sunday Times piece on the loss of Jessops - hugely helpful and knowledgeable staff

The Mclellan Galleries. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLellan_Galleries

A wee film crew

Bradfords. Popular cake shop. Many are the shoppers across the class divide who have taken buns back to Drumchapel and Bearsden

Haggis Pies

Glasgow Film Theatre and Rose St up there

Odd wee wedge of stone - wrong jigsaw piece

Looking back

Ladbrokes

A big hug

Tesco opening

Celtic shop on our right

The Willow Tea Rooms. Among the most famous tea rooms in the world, for sure. See http://www.willowtearooms.co.uk/

Home kit reduced? Buy one wee man

Got a couple of nice books at Book Bargains

No more alas

Any book £2

For more pics from here see
Sauchiehall Street: after the Rain
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/sauchiehall-st-after-rain.html
Sauchiehall St: a Meditation on Scottish Exceptionalism
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/sauchiehall-st-meditation-on-scottish.html

And for pics of a damp post-rain Sauchiehall St see

Sauchiehall Street: after the Rain 2
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/sauchiehall-st-after-rain.html

Primark - always busy. Buy it cheap and throw it away

The bigger Boots

Tk Maxx

Argos - the name of Odysseus' dog

Take away catalogues

They're back!

M&S

Roma beggar on left. Roma beggars and Roma Big Issue sellers are now a common feature of Glasgow's central and west end streets. No one really wants to talk about this depressing topic, which is not helpful.

The Savoy Centre - not one of the upmarket arenas

Offices for sale

Another beggar on right. The cops tend to leave them alone

Watt Brothers coming up. People liken it to Grace Brothers but it is actually an efficient and highly popular Glasgow store

Would love to take pics inside one day

Looking down Hope St

Looking up Hope St

Looking back

McDonalds

Another Greggs

Stock Liquidation

Gutted We've Closed

Behind the pane is a Payne - and the pain of job losses

British Home Stores entrance

£1.99 breakfast

Outside British Home Stores we bump into our friend Guillermo. whose Malaga Tapas restaurant in Pollokshields is one of the best in Scotland - he even caters for veggies such as us

http://www.malagatapas.co.uk/

We decide to go in for a coffee

Guillermo tries the breakfast - chefs are never off duty

Looking out at Bath St

Also available at this store

The Works

At Renfield St now

Looking down Renfield St.

For Christmas 2011 in Renfield St down there, see

Ghostworld: Glasgow Christmas 2011

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/12/ghostworld-glasgow-christmas-2011.html

Body Shop

Looking back

On the last stretch now

The smaller Jessops store - also of course closed down

Advice for life, Sadly no more

All Sale £10

Now at Buchanan St - hi Donald

Under the wraps on the right - until 2011 - there was a row of Georgian buildings. See

Buchanan st

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/buchanan-st.html

Buchanan St 2: a Meditation on Donald Dewar

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/buchanan-st-2-meditation-on-donald.html

Buchanan St 3: Georgian Buildings Coming Down

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/buchanan-st-3-georgian-buildings-coming.html

Donald is under siege sometimes. See

Desecrating Donald

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/12/desecrating-donald.html

HMV over there - another High St victim

Let's look inside

The new shopping site here - an extension of the Buchanan galleries opposite is expected by some to finally kill Sauchiehall St. See this excellent site (great photos of the original buildings as well) - http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/archive/buchanan-galleries-£100m-extension-scheme-is-blasted__o_t__t_380.html

A wee gallus pigeon

Looking back up Sauchiehall St

looking back at Buchanan St.

Let;s take a quick peek inside that Buchanan Galleries entrance

Back outside - heading home now

Some pigeons having a bath

Note the headline, George Square Revamp Axed. For this fiasco see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21058651

Pavilion Theatre up there on left

A parked dog complaining. For my blog on Parked Dogs see

http://parkeddogs.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/parked-dogs-8.html

Help me mister

The Night Life

The exhibition is being held in a house belonging one of Lorna's friends in the Jordanhill area, and has been beautifully curated. Funny - people think of Edinburgh as the (in general terms) more arty city, and have never really got into the way of thinking of Glasgow as a hot spot for art, yet of course it is and has been since the late 19th century, when the dealer Alexander Reid went to Paris and was painted by van Gogh. Not that our judgement has always been fallible of course. When Reid sent a couple of van Goghs back home to Glasgow, his family destroyed them. See http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSE00523

Love this one

We of course take our title for this post from 'The House for an Art Lover', designed in 1901 by Charles Rennie Macintosh and his wife, Margaret MacDonald, and built in 1996. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_for_an_Art_Lover
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/bellahouston-park.html

Lorna's figures are magical

A very Glasgow fireplace - art nouveau, Glasgow style

Pic by Rowan

Roberts radio - itself a work of art

This and next seven pics also by Rowan

The House of an Art Lover

Today is 8 September 2010 and we are in St Mungo Avenue, opposite Buchanan St Bus Station.

This sculpture commemorates the great Glaswegian architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The quote on the base -

Without you,
Everything Has A Flatness.
I Feel As If I'm Waiting For
Something All The Time.

- Charles Rennie Mackintosh

was I guess addressed to his wife, that very fine artist Margaret MacDonald

See
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/charles-rennie-mackintosh.html

The sculpture catches the late western sun

Couple holding hands approaching

Wandering back past Buchanan St bus station. . .

. . . we see the setting sun through the trees

Going home

And now we are time tripping forward to just the other day from now. It is Monday, 4 February 2013 and we are outside Buchanan St Bus station again

A sculpture by one of my favourite artists, George Wyllie; the Running Clock, commissioned by Radio Clyde, 2000. See
http://georgewyllie.com/george-with-running-clock/

Heading into station, we give beggar on left 50p

We like this one

Wincher's Stance

Life and art

Without you,
Everything Has A Flatness.
I Feel As If I'm Waiting For
Something All The Time.

So here we are in Milnpark St, facing the Stanley Bar. We are heading up past the bar to Seaward St.

We are actually in Kinning Park, for the moment, the boundaries of which with Tradeston seem fairly porous in post-industrial Glasgow.

The wiki entries are pretty good I think -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinning_Park

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradeston

Down there is the old Gray Dunn factory in Stanley St, to which we shall return at the end of the walk

Looking into Stanley Street

The old Catholic school

Admiral Street

The Grand Ole Opry down in Paisley Rd West

Heading into Seaward St

Looking through the railings we see the back of the Gray Dunn factory

Looking back

We are heading along there, under the bridge

Looking back

Under the bridge now. Who owns this stuff?

And now into Scotland Street

Shields Rd up there

Passing Shields Rd Subway

The Fish People

Mackintosh's Scotland St School coming up on right. See http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/member/scotland-street-school-museum

Interesting stretch of abandoned industrial buildings coming up on our right

Love the chimney pots

All part of Glasgow's industrial heritage decaying away. See p. 517 of The Penguin Buildings of Scotland, Glasgow, and the Tradeston section of the Buildings at Risk Register -

http://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/search/keyword/tradeston

A clock long stopped

A gate for work, now closed

Great arch

Now at Scotland House, the World Headquarters of Murgitroyd & Company, a big business in patent and trade marks.

See this BBC report from 4 February -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21318802

A Glasgow success story not many of us have heard of, I'd guess

Looking back

We are swinging left now, heading under that bridge

Carnoustie Place over there

Aw - England and Scotland in harmony

Super Soccer

Anas Sarwar's constituency office

West Street Subway

Looking back - we are returning this way also

Heading up West St

Westbridge Gardens

Coming up to Cook St: the corner building, 54-66, is a listed building - and at risk of course

http://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/search/keyword/tradeston

Up there on the left with the tower is 118 Tradeston St - yet another of the area's fine listed buildings at risk -

http://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/search/keyword/tradeston/event_id/889317/building_name/118-tradeston-street-glasgow

As is the marvellous former Telephone Exchange Building further down. We'll come back at some future point to take more detailed pics

Pressing on - slip road on left

And so we come to the site where so recently stood that fine old Co-op Funeral Parlour building. For the fire, see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/tradeston-2-co-op-funeral-parlour-fire.html

Old bricks

Kingston Bridge ahead provides a fine viewpoint, though you can't of course stop

Heading back

Great cloud

Back in Scotland St

Luncheon Vouchers - remember them?

Part worn tyres from £12

Holland House in Laidlaw St, and also Scotland St - quite pleasing to note

Altocumulus cloud (I think) -

http://wvscience.org/clouds/Cloud_Key.pdf

The hole is what I suppose may be a (pretty rare) failstreak hole -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallstreak_hole

From wiki -

'Because of their rarity and unusual appearance, as well as very little exposure in media, fallstreak holes are often mistaken for or attributed to unidentified flying objects.'

Bonnybridge is regarded as the world's number 1 UFO spot - wonder if they get more of these clouds there

Car park is busy during week

There is a Beatrix Potter exhibition at the Scotland St Museum

Oddly disturbing poster

Back in Seaward St

Note poster for Super Soccer

Back in Milnpark St

We're going to pop down Stanley St

The Gray Dunn factory, stripped clean by thieves and disfigured by vandals. See

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/mobile/u/news/calls-for-moves-to-make-derelict-factory-building-safe.1359481605

and page 600 of the Penguin Guide to the architecture of Glasgow

Ah, the 'Glasgow Loves Christmas' poster has gone

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/merry-christmas-2012.html …

Free Glasgow App

What the marketing people see as a typical Glasgow couple looking at floating heads in Kelvingrove Museum. I think he is saying 'Does ma heid in as well'

And we finish in Portman St (Climbing Academy St on left)

As we are lazy today we are going to jump on a bus at Kelvinbridge, where we notice this poster for the Scottish Beef industry, a marketing response to the horsemeat scandal. As a veggie I don't have a hot dog in this fight but I note that the bottom photie is of a cottage in Glencoe, which is an odd choice for two reasons: (a) Glencoe is not exactly a hot spot for beef cattle, (b) when people think of a cottage in Glencoe these days they think of Jimmy Saville

In Sauchiehall St, we come across a rally for the Destiny church see

http://www.destiny-church.com/

For a walk past the church see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/townhead-to-duke-st-to-george-square.html

The church is evangelical, and like many British evangelical churches has many members of African origin

A big hug

Pressing on, we come across an American Indian musician - this guy has been about for years I think

The music is that New Age flute, pipes of pan stuff. Not sure how authentic the costume is

Moving on - the Officers Club is closing down we see, those posters not here when we walked past in January; an addition to the recession casualty list. See http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/sauchiehall-st-recession-street-january.html

Street marketing outside the great Watts store

Busker coming up in doorway

Singing Irish folk - great voice this guy

Moving on. Something uncommon ahead

This guy deserves a quid

Moving on, we find a Big Issue seller. . .

. . .and his dog

Am not much of a dog person, but this is a lovely creature

Pressing on

The street has its harmonies as well as dissonance

A wee sit down. . .

. . .and a chat

Soldiers gabbing

Gaza Aid Convoy Stall

Buskers outside the shut Jessops

This is a popular stop for buskers, handy for shoppers coming in and out of the Buchanan Galleries. I saw a handsome young lad here last year, playing his guitar and singing his own songs, surrounded by a large circle of girls and women gazing upon his comely form with yearning eyes

Tourists here I suppose

Pressing on into Buchanan St, we find a para chatting to the lads

Ah, recruiting

Try some cropping

We hear a piper further down Buchanan St

Excellent young piper

We pop inside Buchanan galleries for a moment

Heading back out

Heading back to Sauchiehall St

Some banter

What do you make of it all, eh Donald?

Looking up Sauchiehall St

Back with the nice Big Issue guy and his dog

We have a chat. The dog is called Max, same name as our dear old cat who died at Christmas

We buy a Big Issue; chap gives us a treat to give to Max, who takes it with great delicacy

A wee break. This can be a tough street for entertainers -
Entertainers 1: old French chap busking in Sauchiehall St

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/09/entertainers-1-old-french-chap-busking.html

Entertainers 2: the Golden Man

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/entertainers-2-golden-man.html

A sit down with the Watt Brothers bags

Two cops over there looking after a guy slumped on wall

He is OK. Lots of people having it hard these days

An abandoned balloon

There was a Roma Big Issue seller about a moment ago, who has vanished. Some are still not accustomed to cops, such as ours, that are polite and helpful

Back at the Destiny rally

A lass dancing

Am no judge of hoofers, but she seems very talented to me

Interpretative dance I gather, about sin and the world and redemption

A crop from last pic

'O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?'
Yeats, 'Among Schoolchildren'

The nun outside Boots is collecting for Nazareth House care home in Paisley Rd West. See

http://www.carehome.co.uk/carehome.cfm/searchazref/10006040NAZB

Collecting for Comic Relief at TK-Maxx. Camera shake damn itbut kept because - see pic a few stops down

Christian Stoicism. It is cold

The TK-Maxx people changed awfy quick - only minutes since the blurry Green Man was there

Young woman describing how God changed her life. Bright, articulate, passionate speaker

Now who can this possibly be?

Hold it, Mickey!

Hard, cold times

Grab shot from the top deck of 66 bus

Here we are in Clifford St. Plantation Park over there, we will have quick look inside later, but for the moment we are heading west. . .

. . .along Clifford St

We are parallel to Paisley Rd West down there

Looking back

We are turning into Gower St

Clifford Lane - heading down there in a minute

Off we go - looks a bit wet

Is a bit wet. The dry bit looks like a map of Scotland. Let us walk on Scotland

We are heading into the Cairns doorway to pick up a t-shirt that has been printed for us

This building (like others in the lane) is an old stables, maybe 19th century I should think

Mortons T-shirts is a long established t-shirt printer (ours with a hare on it there on left), indeed a Glasgow institution - I mind getting some done back in the early 80s at Kelvinbridge. See

http://www.funtoontshirts.com/

The firm is run by Robin Cairns (over there on the left), a talented poet/performer in a tradition which includes the likes of the late and much lamented Ivor Cutler and Michael Marra. See

http://www.robincairns.com/

Robin kindly shows us round

Back in the lane, T-shirt safely in rucksack

Axiom - well-known firm

Now crossing what I think is Percy St

Into the next part of the lane

Bunting ahead

A 'psychic centre' See their website for details.

http://thepsychiccentre.webs.com/

A Psychic Portal

Looking back

Clifford Business Centre

Looking back

Coming into Langshot St now

End of lane down there - think we'll pass

Back at Plantation Park now, let's have a quick look inside


Over there is Kinning Park Underground and the start of this neighbouring walk - A Kingston Walk 2 http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/a-kingston-walk-2.html We hope to connect Glasgow through a series of linked walks and cycles - if our pins don't give out

Cyclist coming

We'll head back to Paisley Rd West in a minute. . .

. . . first we'll take a detour onto the road bridge

Looking into town

Looking west

Heading back

Back in Langshot St; that's where we came out of Clifford Lane

Now in Paisley Rd West

Making Scotland's Kids Shine

Asia Gate

Asha Hair Extensions

A smile from Sponge Bob

The way to Robin's place

Life in the UK Centre

We're crossing over to Cessnock Underground

The fab 'Greek' Thomson terrace. See the previous Cessnock post and
Alexander Greek Thomson
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/alexander-greek-thomson.html

The Cessnock Portal. Of all the Underground entrances, this is perhaps the most disconcerting, with those two teeth-like pillars and the eyes above

STUC March Against Public Spending Cuts

Vikings in Glasgow

Hillhead 6: Amnesty International and Freedom from Torture Book Sale at the Hillhead Book Club

Partick Underground to Crow Rd

Partick Bridge to Partick Underground: an Evening Stroll

A Kingston Walk 2

Hillhead 7: Saltires in the Sky

Crow Rd to Broomhill Drive

Merry Christmas 2012

Clyde St to Victoria Rd to Bridge St

Sauchiehall St: a Meditation on Scottish Exceptionalism

Springburn Burgh Halls and the Winter Gardens

Partick: Clydeside Expressway, on the bridges

Anniesland Clouds

Sauchiehall St: Recession Street, January 2013

Ghostworld: Glasgow Christmas 2011

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/12/ghostworld-glasgow-christmas-2011.html

Buchanan st

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/buchanan-st.html

Buchanan St 2: a Meditation on Donald Dewar

Buchanan St 3: Georgian Buildings Coming Down

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/buchanan-st-3-georgian-buildings-coming.html

Desecrating Donald

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/12/desecrating-donald.html

House for an Art Lover

Public Art 1: Love in Buchanan St Bus station and St Mungo Avenue

Tradeston 3: a Walk among Inconvenient Buildings

Sauchiehall St and Buchanan St: street life February 2013

Cessnock 2: a walk down (and round about) Clifford Lane