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 Sunday, 21 April, and we are at Celtic Park, courtesy of a friend, to see Celtic play Inverness Caledonian Thistle. If Celtic take a point they will be crowned SPL champions.

Heading down Holywell St to ground

Note the Forge shopping centre over there - last time I was in there was a booth selling human hair extensions

Celtic Park in view

Busker

Flag seller

Ticket seller

Match programme seller

We will be in the south stand

Jesus The Ultimate Hero

Hanging with Jimmy Johnstone

Fan in middle, Celtic founder Brother Walfrid in distance on left, Jimmy in middle, Jock Stein on right

Christ on stripey hat, Paradise below

In south stand

For what it's like at Firhill, see

Sunshine on Firhill: Partick Thistle 1, Morton 0

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/sunshine-on-firhill-partick-thistle-1.html

Exit the Celtic Way

Personalise your seat

The club mascot: Hoopy the Huddle Hound. A title so cosy it is actually vaguely threatening

Take your partners, gentlemen

Polish Bhoys

Fans from Kirkcaldy and Oban

Fans from Edinburgh

Carluke Shamrock on right - they were at the George Square protest the other week. See

A George Square protest by Celtic fans; and a walk in Argyle St to St Enoch Square

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-george-square-protest-by-celtic-fans.html

Fans from Montrose

All the way from Govan

Folding the cloth

The Green Brigade over there. . .

. . . Celtic's 'Ultras'.

Teams emerging

The banner celebrates Celtic as a mind-expanding drug

Shaking hands

The famous Celtic huddle

Game under way - Celtic attacking goal on our right

Inverness attacking

Celtic attacking - noise is remarkable

An empty goal

Ball flies over

Back and forth

No one home again

Keeper handling pressure well

Half time - nil each

Great green frame

Half time lottery draw

The sprays come on

A Celtic lottery cheque

Sun hitting the spray

Like the ghost of a butterfly

Back on pitch

A banner appears attacking Alex Salmond and the SNP government for its legislation on fan behaviour at football matches. Missed the start of the banner's progression from the Green Brigade end. You can see it in full here.

http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/topic/8787763/196/

It depicts Salmond sitting in a chair flicking a bone at a cop and the text reads

NIk Nak Paddy Whack

Give the cops a bone

SNP send cops to your home

For more on the bill see

A George Square protest by Celtic fans; and a walk in Argyle St to St Enoch Square

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-george-square-protest-by-celtic-fans.htm

When the banner reaced this point, it seems (see Kerrydale link above) there was an attempt by stewards to stop the banner's progress into the south stand where we are, or maybe even take the banner - it travelled back

Alex Massie on the Bill -

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/alex-massie/2013/03/the-boys-of-the-green-brigade/

Ooops - we miss a Celtic goal watching the banner

Celtic fans rejoice - great atmosphere

Banner on its way back. The stewards would be very foolish to try to take it now

Inverness try to hit back

He is a great goalie is Fraser Forster - been in England squad, performed brilliantly here against Barcelona, whom Celtic of course beat and beat well

Ooops up other end Celtic score again

Yep, net bulging!

Fans erupt

Stewards come out to glare at us

Samaras coming on - gets big cheer

Well held sir

Hooper scores! Not Huddle Hoopy of course, but Hooper, another great Englishman playing for Celtic - a wicked wee flick here and the Inverness keeper is beaten.

Celtic defending

I know the feeling

Samaras having a wee rest while a colleague massages his head

Up he comes, suitably refreshed

The fans turn for a huddle - one of the box wallahs behind us looks for a hug

Blurry I know, but I was getting a man hug at that moment

Another goal - Samaras this time

Inverness get a consolation goal right at the death. Final score 4-1 and Celtic are champs. For the BBC match report see

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22141268

BBC gives attendance as 55,000.

The SFA have banned Neil Lennon from appearing until 15 mins after the match end. The stadium announcer gives us a countdown

Lap of honour for Celtic players

Neil Lennon has emerged to thunderous cheers

Saluting the Green Brigade I think at this point

Waving the flag

Come here, you

Samaras gets a big hug

A sea of flags

Neil Lennon joins the players

That's Mjallby I think

Out we go

Hi Neil!

Death burgers

We're going to follow the crowd down London Road. For other walks to and from Celtic Park see

Welcome to Glasgow 4: Rutherglen to Gallowgate, Part 1

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/04/welcome-to-glasgow-4-rutherglen-to_26.html

Welcome to Glasgow 4: Rutherglen to Gallowgate, Part 2http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/04/welcome-to-glasgow-4-rutherglen-to_28.html

Boden St - the style police are not conspicuous

Interesting looking building on the right there

Church House Youth Club. See http://www.churchhouse.plus.com/Home.html

We'll rejoin the fans

The big London Rd Police station coming up on right

If you know your history

Wee look off to our left - interesting building

Approaching Bridgeton Cross; railway station on left

The Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, Olympia House. No tricolours here

http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/profiles/lol1.htm

Olympia St

Lady (I think Polish) asking directions

She is looking for the Gallowgate; the policewoman explains it runs parallel to London Rd

The remarkable Bridgeton Umbrella. See

Bridgeton Cross

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/bridgeton-cross.html

and

Welcome to Glasgow: the Dalmarnock Rd

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-to-glasgow-dalmarnock-road.html

Note fan with scarf on right

The Witch is Dead - referencing Thatcher of course

We are about to pass a section of Rangers pubs

There were tenements here when we last passed. Demolished because of a fire

Note bit of red white and blue on arch above door

Bridgeton Express

Police wagon outside Crimson Star

Celtic car

Police wagon outside Crimson Star has pulled off - not gone far one supposes

The Calton Bar

The magnificent Templeton's Carpet factory off to our left

The old railway wall now demolished.

For more on Templeton and Glasgow Green, see

Glasgow Green: the 2010 Scottish Junior Run

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/glasgow-green-2010-scottish-junior-run.html

People's Palace down there

Back on the road

Coming up to the Barras

For more on the shifting sands of Barrowland see

Schipka Pass down, and a walk through Barrowland

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/03/schipka-pass-down-and-walk-through.html

Party Times

The Foggy Dew. Most of the pubs here are Celtic pubs

Adult fun. One of the most depressing sights in Glasgow

Old public toilet

Calton Books and Body Cult; socialism and steroids

This radical bookshop is aimed at Celtic fans. Rangers fans are presumably regarded as beyond saving

Oldfashioned sweeties in new packaging. Just like much of Scottish politics

The red shop used to be the radical bookshop

Great Polish shop - love their rye loaves

London way

Celtic car

When Ever You're Out

Glasgow Cross coming up

For Glasgow Cross, see

Glasgow Cross and Argyle St

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/04/glasgow-cross-trongate-and-argyle-st.html

National Buteyko Campaign. Had to google this, it's breathing technique

'One British relic gone, time to get rid of another'. I too wish to get rid of Trident, but this poster belongs to a process in which evil is located south of the border - in England and Britain and the UK. In the real Scotland, perhaps the most prominent businessman of our day - Sir Tom Hunter - describes himself as a 'son of Thatcher'. Scotland is complex: for some of the Celtic supporters we have been with, Salmond is as wicked as Thatcher - indeed worse, part of the old anti-Catholic Scotland. A caricature true, but so is this poster. We need to grow up

Wee Willie Winkie

Rose & Grants

Argyle St beckons

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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 is Sunday, 28 April, 2013 and we are off to Polloksields for the opening of the new Gurdwara.

See

http://www.glasgowgurdwara.org/

http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/gurdwara_glasgow.htm

See also

Glasgow's Sikhs

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/04/glasgows-sikhs.html

Glasgow's Sikhs 2: a Sikh Wedding

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/08/glasgows-sikhs-2-sikh-wedding.html

For more on Pollokshields see

Pollokshields: Glasgow's Muslim Community
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pollokshields-glasgows-muslim-community.html

Here we are in Albert Drive; the procession will turn the corner here down Darnley St

Not sure what this is about - nowt to do with procession anyway

Hanging shoes as a memorial is a relatively recent phenomenon in Glasgow - my guess is this one commemorates someone killed hereabouts. For another example, of shoes in Boston following the bombing there - see http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/shoe-memorial-boston-victims-grows-mcdonough-city-/nXPBG/

Respect People

There is the Gurdwara - wonderful building

The fine tower of the Strathbungo Parish church in the background. See

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-32397-603-605-pollokshaws-road-strathbungo-pari

We are above Pollokshields East railway station

A welcoming letter from a neighbour

Another welcoming letter from a neighbour

Back to the Darnley St corner and the bike

Dome and church tower again

Axe the Bedroom Tax

This dapper chap is Humza Yousaf, the Scottish Government's Minister for External Affairs and International Development. He is an interesting figure. When the polls for the last Scottish council elections closed, I heard him on Radio Scotland just after 10 pm claiming that the SNP had captured Glasgow - it was only a matter if the party had an overall majority. Of course they didn't win Glasgow, nowhere near, but it was a very creditable performance that would have been hailed as a great success, had Humza not made his wild boast. He has successfully ditched the baggage from his political origin in his cousin Osama Saeed's Scottish Islamic Foundation; but is a bit of a loose cannon. He recently made a comment in Holyrood about a Labour opponent expecting the Messiah - all part of political rough and tumble one would say, but I expect we will wait a very long time before Humza makes any parliamentary jests about the coming of the Mahdi.

One to watch most certainly. here is a good Independent Jack Hurley piece on his performance on Question Time -

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/questionable-time-humza-yousaf-faces-up-to-battle-8486588.html

Passing cyclist. . .

. . .part of this group

A lady has just appeared handing out leaflets from the Yes independence campaign - this one was not wanted

Leaflet dispensers over there

They are bringing a table over

Hmm - seems a bit ill-mannered to me to impinge on the Sikh procession this way.The rival Better Together lot are not here, but if they were also here it would introduce a note not conducive to the joy of the day.

An outrunner bringing news of the procession

There they are down there

Filming the filmers

The fencing is the martial art Gatka. See

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

For the meaning of Sikh symbols see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanda_(Sikh_symbol)

Ah, here come our delightful west of Scotland politicians.

The wee guy with the dark glasses is the Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson, who does not have his troubles to seek at the moment. See

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/police-investigate-glasgow-city-council-1859186

Beside him is Nicola Sturgeon, MSP and Deputy First Minister and former favourite of Bashir Maan and other well-kent Muslim figures for her and the SNP's opposition to the Iraq and Afghanisrtan invasions - but since the SNP's embrace of gay marriage, now not such a favourite -

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/muslims-urged-to-take-gay-marriage-poll-stand.17348741

Am not really a fan of Sturgeon, but in the case of gay marriage she has been resolute in doing the right thing despite the criticism from some faith groups - good for her. For Sturgeon and the SNP council candidates in George Square see

When Worlds Collide: Botham's Great Walk, the SNP Rally, Cricket and Glasgow, Bernard Ponsonby and the Monstrosity

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/when-worlds-collide-bothams-great-walk.html

Absent from the line up seems to be the local Labour councillor , Bailie Hanif Raja

who was caught claiming on Pakistan television that he was elected despite the opposition of Hindus and Sikhs -

http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/political-news/labour-bailie-in-sikh-row-apology.18013863

'Glasgow politician Hanif Raja was disciplined after claiming he was elected in May despite the efforts of the "Indian community".

Tory councillor David Meikle questioned whether Mr Raja, who was awarded the MBE for inter-faith relations, could remain as one of the council's bailies.

Mr Raja gave an interview to a Pakistan television network on the day of his election in May in which he alleged, in Urdu, that Sikhs and Indians had not voted for him because of his views on Kashmir.

One translation had the Pollokshields councillor saying: "I have been presented with so many obstacles from the Sikh and Indian community. I got a backlash when I went to them for votes.

"They said to me 'we can't support you because you support Kashmir'. I said to them: 'If you don't want to give me the vote because of this then fine, this is my ideology. I won't ever compromise on this'."

After the Labour Party was alerted, Mr Raja apologised for "any offence" caused by his "clumsily worded" statements. The remarks caused outrage in the Sikh community, as Sikhs campaigned and voted for Mr Raja.

A Labour spokesman said: "We require all our councillors to uphold the highest of standards and Mr Raja has apologised profusely."

Mr Raja has an MBE for his work in interfaith relations. Glasgow politics - business as usual.

Australian flag there

Nice doggie

Adding petals to the ledge

Raining

Happy in the rain

Sharing headscarves

The Khalsa flag

Heading out

Shoes in boot

Been a great day

Cycling back, we notice that the last Glasgow's Smiles Better poster - in Chisholm St - has finally gone.

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/bad-posters.html

But sometimes, as today - Glasgow really does smile better.

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 30 April 2013, and we are off to McTear's auction house in Meiklewood Rd, to pick up some items we bought. We will be cycling to and from the fine Ahmadi Mosque in Haugh Rd.

Here we are in Dumbarton Rd, about to cross over to Haugh Rd by the mosque

Looking down Argyle St. I love these long tenement vistas in sun and shadow

Looking back at Radnor St

For more on the mosque and Ahmadis, see

http://www.khuddam.org/khuddam/regions/scotland/

The Ahmadis are a persecued community throughout the Muslim world. See

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/06/pakistan-election-ahmadi-votes

Badly stitched together pan

Let's take a wee detour to the right up Blackie St

The Kelvinhaugh Orange Hall. Damaged by fire in the early 1990s

This is the Overnewton Recreation Centre. See

http://www.activescotland.org.uk/ServiceProvider/Facility/index.html?id=eb41e530-7c38-48f6-bbfe-9adb00978919

This is the Steiner School, Lumsden St; badly damaged by fire in March, 2013. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21940354

The school's website is here - http://www.glasgowsteinerschool.org.uk/

It's a good school - friends of ours have children here

Overnewton Square

Back in Haugh St

Pressing on

Fine corner building - Yorkhill hospital buildings up there. For more on Yorkhill Hospital (and its strange unused sections) see

River City in Yorkhill Hospital: Trials of an Extra part 4

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/river-city-in-yorkhill-hospital-trials.html

Going down Kelvinhaugh St

Yorkhill Fire Station

We are in Sandyford St, going to head over the bridge down there eventually

We'll take a wee diversion up there first, do a link with a previous walk

The blossoms are prettier in the original pic. Aren't they always

For a walk along that path, see

Yorkhill Park to the SECC to Finnieston

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/yorkhill-park-to-secc-to-finnieston.html

Looking along Gilbert St

Let's head back down

My faithful steed

University of Glasgow's MacLay Residences

Eastvale Place - let's take a wander down

Coach House Trust - fine charity. See http://www.thecht.co.uk/

Lot of work gone into that

Galvanising works I think

A sort of street Harry Potter?

We're heading through there

Through the arch

For a possible Taggart murder mystery here, see

Taggart: Trials of an Extra part 1

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/taggart.html

Looking west

Looking east, where we are heading

Police helicopter

We too will be taking the bike over the footbridge

Up the steps

Looking west

Looking east

A 'B' listed building this -

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-33098-100-stobcross-road-queen-s-dock-former-hy

From the link -

'Italianate hydraulic hydraulic power and pumping station. T-plan with 4-stage 'campanile'accumulator tower at NW corner, 6 x 3 bays. Coursed ashlar with ashlar angle quoins, surrounds, and fanned voussoirs over openings. All openings plain, roundheaded. 3 x 3 unequal bays. S section oriented E-W, regular windows with band course at impost level. Pediments to both faces, sculpted panel in tympanam. 3-bay N section with keyblocked windows.

4-stage tower with band course to each level, moulded cornice to 2nd. Bracketted cornice over clock to each face.

Replacement windows correspond to original top-hopper pattern. '

Ah, the Waverley

The last seagoing paddle steamer in the world, apparently. See

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

Clyde barge goes by

Swan in the swell

For the sadly defunct ClydeRiver Festival, see
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/clyde-river-festival.html

BBC Scotland over there

While taking pics I absentmindedly almost step in front of a fellow cyclist. Oh the shame

Our swan heading up river

Over we go

'Ceartas'. The word means 'Justice' in Gaelic and is the slogan of a protest group promoting the use of Gaelic. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceartas
The word 'slogan' itself is of course a Gaelic word - not a lot of people know that. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_(heraldry)

Let's go and look at the Waverley

An accidental pic

We head on past the Glasgow Science Centre, described in Owen Hatherley's grimly witty book, A Gude to the New Ruins of Great Britain, as 'titanium molluscs. . .complete with 'landmark' tower

Looking back

Govan over there

We will be there shortly

Another barge, going about its business

Heading out

Out onto Govan Rd

Govan Rd swings round to the right here

Whitefield Rd; We're going to head down there shortly

Finnieston Crane

Accidental self portrait

The splendid Govan Burgh Hall. For more on Govan see

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

Govan

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

Govan 2: from Ibrox Underground via McTear's to Govan Underground

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/govan-2-from-ibrox-underground-via.html

Merryland St. At the other flank of the Hall is the equally cheery Summertown Rd

Summertown Rd

Pressing on down Whitefield Rd

The BBC listening post

Was going to bin this, just noticed interesting sign

Caledonian Snacks; I can feel my arteries hardening

Handlebar shot

Almost everywhere you look in Govan, there are interesting dilapidated buildings

35 Whitefield Rd

Out onto Edmiston Drive; we are heading up here. On our left on the other side of the billboard is Paisley Rd West. For walks along there see

Craigton Cemetery

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/craigton-cemetery.html

Looking back into Whitefield Rd

Ibrox Stadium coming up on right

The John Grieg statue

For more on Rangers see

Glasgow Rangers 1: the Ibrox Park Triangle, from Cessnock to Ibrox to Govan http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/glasgow-rangers-1-ibrox-park-triangle.html

Glasgow Rangers 2: the 50,000 sellout match

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012_02_01_archive.html

What's it all about, John

Think I mentioned before, that one of those men who knows everything said in the 80s to invest in Rangers if you ever get the chance - 'can't go wrong, backed by Scottish bankers'.

The Wee Rangers Club

Ah, this fine wee Greggs building again

Heading down Balbeg St to McTear's

Now in Meiklewood Rd; McTear's on left

Inside McTear's we find a marketing promo item for King Kong coming up for auction

Lovely pot

The pannier will carry what we bought thank goodness. For previous trips to McTear's see the Govan and Craigton Cemetery links earlier. Och here they are again -

Craigton Cemetery

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/craigton-cemetery.html

Govan 2: from Ibrox Underground via McTear's to Govan Underground

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/govan-2-from-ibrox-underground-via.html

Crossing the Clyde again

Work on Bell's Bridge

The Clyde Auditorium - or 'Armadillo'. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Auditorium

This is the Hydro. Rod Stewart will be the opening act. Haud me back.

Enjoying the sun

Long line of doubtless anxious yellow jackets walking the rim

Goodness - there are dozens of them

The SECC

We are heading up to the red tunnel

Beside and below the tunnel entrance is the touching memorial to Gillian Purvis. See

http://www.gillianpurvistrust.org/

On we go. The covered walkway is used by pedestrians and cyclists and connects the SECC with the Exhibitin Centre railway station, Minerva St

Workies relaxing below

A Glasgow version of Last Year in Marienbad

Railway below

A symbol of our births perhaps

A long way down, ma

End in view

Out in Minerva St

Fine building this

Looking back

Swinging round to the right

Finnieston Evangelical Church

Old public toilet

Nice flowers

We're heading up Argyle St on our right

A smiley face

Looking back

Condra Dental Laboratory on left. Probably nicer than it sounds

Beauty

Funeral parlour

Great Deco clock. Time running out for all of us, alas

Faded; Strathmore Services

Argyle Court; old ads

The Finnieston Restaurant. See
http://www.thefinniestonbar.com/

Taste of Punjab on left

The Ben Nevis

Building on left has great old signage - looks as if renovators plan to keep the signs

Kelvingrove Cafe

Kelvinhaugh St on left

Back at the mosque

Looking back

And here is what we bought at auction - some lovely Ottoman textiles

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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

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

Today is Sunday, 5 May 2013 and we are havibg a daunder round bits of Kinning Park and Govan, and the bounds of Tradeston, linking up with previous walks along the way.

Portman Street over there. . .

. . . this way for Stanley St. For previous trips round here see
Cessnock & Kinning Park
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/cessnock-kinning-park.html

Tradeston 2: the Co-op Funeral Parlour Fire

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html

Tradeston 3: a Walk among Inconvenient Buildings
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/tradeston-3-walk-among-inconvenient.html

Stanley St coming up. Not much has happened since we were last here, except of course more decay, most notably in the Gray Dunn building on the right

Let's have a look in Stanley St

The old Stanley St school gets more and more like a Gothic film set

The two broken windows make for a sad face

Brickwork underneath - made to last by men who cared

Heading out to Milnpark St now

We are heading down Admiral St

Looking back

Now at Paisley Rd Toll. Was at an American Civil War themed wedding at the Grand Ole Opry many years ago. Great night. See
http://www.glasgowsgrandoleopry.co.uk/history.htm

Looking down Paisley Rd, towards town

Interesting door and lintel - 'Greek' Thomson in appearance

Like their Celtic-orientated counterparts down the Gallowgate, these Rangers-orientated pubs are welcoming to outsiders, but are essentially local pubs for local people

Looking down Seaward St. For a linked walk see
A Kingston Walk
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/welcome-to-my-wee-photoblog-on-glasgow.html

The magnificent old Co-op building down at Tradeston. See

Tradeston 2: the Co-op Funeral Parlour Fire

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html

Tradeston 3: a Walk among Inconvenient Buildingshttp://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/tradeston-3-walk-among-inconvenient.html

Looking down at Springfield Quay

For a walk down Paisley Rd, see A Kingston Walk linked a few pics back

Crossing Seaward St again

Looking back down Admiral St

All Day and Every Day

For the much-loved Govan Angel, see the excellent summary here (quoted below) -

http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_images.php?sub=angel

'The identity of the angel and its sculptor have long been forgotten and, consequently, have been the topics of much debate by locals and historians alike. In 2000, the nearby Angel Bar held a competition to find the most humorous name for the statue, whilst sculpture historians Gary Nisbet and Ray McKenzie at Glasgow School of Art agreed that James Alexander Ewing was the likely sculptor.

However, in 2004, Gary Nisbet, the author of the glasgowsculpture.com website, discovered the true identity of the statue, Commerce and Industry, buried in a lengthy account of the building's opening in an article published in the Govan Press newspaper, on 21st September 1889. Unfortunately, the article does not confirm the identity of the sculptor.'

Paisley Rd West

Govan Rd

Let's have a quick look back at the row of Loyalist pubs

We'll walk a wee way down Govan Rd

A cheery wave

Looking through to Paisley Rd West

Let's go through

We're going to walk down Paisley Rd West a bit

The Squinty Bridge

Empty bottle of Buckfast. Oh dear

Union Jack over there

The Red Lion. An old pub. See
http://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/redlionpaisley.html

Middlesex St

Let's pop over and look at the church

Kinning Park parish church

A memorial

Finnieston crane in distance

We are now in Cessnock. see

Cessnock & Kinning Park

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/cessnock-kinning-park.html

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

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013_02_01_archive.html

Harvie St; we'll pop over there in a minute

Nice entrance

Union Jack in the water

Another stylish doorway

Un-stylish beer glass

To Let

Now in Harvie St

Welcome to Govan Initiative Area. See

http://www.glasgowbusinessclub.co.uk/about/history/

From the above link:

'In 1986, Govan Initiative was established and, under the chairmanship of local councillor Ian Davidson, along with Chief Executive John Scally and his deputy Ron Culley, was charged with the responsibility for the economic regeneration of the Govan area. . .

. . .The Executive having been established, the Southside Business Club was formally launched by Alex Ferguson CBE, a true friend of Govan. . .

n 1997, the then Executive committee, in a move calculated to expand membership numerically and geographically, decided, with the approval of Govan Initiative and the membership, to change the name of the Club from Southside Business Club to Glasgow South Business Club.

Like any other organisation, the Club has had to deal with the effects of the peaks and troughs of the Scottish economy, which from time to time impacts on the Club membership and finances. Today, with the continued support of Jobs & Business Glasgow (formerly Govan Initiative then Glasgow South West Regeneration Agency, then GRA), the Club will continue to build on what’s gone before, producing a varied programme of informal and structured networking and a quality of speaker and topic which each year seems to surpass the year before. . . '

Brand St

Louden Tavern: big Rangers pub

Govan Rd. For more on life along Govan Rd, see

Govan 2: from Ibrox Underground via McTear's to Govan Underground

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/govan-2-from-ibrox-underground-via.html

Festival Park opposite

Clyde House

We're heading over there to Lorne St

Looking back

Lorne St Orange Hall

Jack of Diamonds

Back in Paisley Rd West. For a walk from Cessnock to Craigton Cemetery see

Craigton Cemetery

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/craigton-cemetery.html

RFC

Heading back up to Portman St now

Mariners Wynd

Heading down Middlesex St now

Crossing Milnpark St again

Wonder World. See
http://wonderworldsoftplay.co.uk/find-us-2/

This is all part of the Glasgow Activity Zone. See

http://www.theglasgowactivityzone.com/

Going to head down Portman St now past the old News International building

Oh let's look in the foyer again

Withered plant of some kind inside

Our Lady and St Margaret. See
http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/7015/name/Our+Lady+and+St+Margaret+Glasgow+Strathclyde

The excellent Climbing Academy. See

http://www.tca-glasgow.com/location/

Stanley St over there

Looking back down Portman St

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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

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

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

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) -

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

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 Wednesday, 15 May, 2013, and we are off on a cycle to the HarperCollins offices in Bishopbriggs, just outside Glasgow. We will be mostly taking the road up, and coming back we will come down the Forth and Clyde canal path.

For other Welcome to Glasgow posts see

Welcome to Glasgow: the Dalmarnock Rd

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-to-glasgow-dalmarnock-road.html

Welcome to Glasgow 2: the Yoker Rd

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/11/welcome-to-glasgow-2-yoker-rd.html

Welcome to Glasgow 3: Charing Cross station to Dalmarnock station

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

Welcome to Glasgow 4: Rutherglen to Gallowgate, Part 1

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/04/welcome-to-glasgow-4-rutherglen-to_26.html

Welcome to Glasgow 4: Rutherglen to Gallowgate, Part 2

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

Welcome to Glasgow 5: Alexandra Parade to Barlinnie

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/welcome-to-glasgow-5-alexandra-parade.html

And I must plug my book Brief Encounters - the KIndle edn is now available on Amazon for 99p!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Brief-Encounters-Geronimo-ebook/dp/B009MAO9FG/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371034153&sr=1-2&keywords=brief+encounters+edwin+moore

There is much Scottish interest in the book, including Macbeth's pilgrimage to meet the Pope, Flora MacDonald meeting Dr Johnson, Walter Scott meeting Burns and much more. For glowing reviews of the print edition, see the end of this post.

In Maryhill Rd - we are going to cross over to the canal in middle distance

For more on Maryhill, see

Maryhill

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/06/maryhill-is-large-area-pop-over-50000.html

Maryhill 2: Dawsholm Recycling Plant and Maryhill Locks

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/maryhill-2-dawsholm-recycling-plant-and.html

Big balls - presumably they stop cars from parking or are decorative

Up the steps we go

Looking back at Maryhill Fire Station

On the Forth and Clyde canal path now. For more on the canal see

Forth and Clyde Canal 1

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/forth-and-clyde-canal-part-1.html

Forth and Clyde Canal 2

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/forth-and-clyde-canal-part-2-swans.html

Looking west

We are heading this way

Firhill coming up. Ruchill Park is over the bridge then up Firhill Rd. See

Queen's Cross and Firhill

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/10/queens-cross-and-firhill.html

Firhill Basin

Some big carp and pike around here. See
http://www.magiscroft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2003

Firhill Stadium on right, home of Partick Thistle. See

Sunshine on Firhill: Partick Thistle 1, Morton 0

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/sunshine-on-firhill-partick-thistle-1.html

Looking back

Dookit ie Dovecot

Fisherman's seat

Spiers Wharf up ahead. See

Speirs Wharf

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05_01_archive.html

We are heading down here - Baird's Brae. . .

. . . to Possil Rd

We're cycling up thataway

In Possil Rd

Now at Possil Cross

Looking up Saracen St

For a looping walk along Craighall Rd there and round Speirs Wharf see the Speirs Wharf link -

Speirs Wharf

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05_01_archive.html

Looking back

Used to be a rather basic pub on the left there - cycled past a few fights outside

View down Craighall Rd

A bad pan

In Keppochhill Rd now

Looking down Pinkston Rd to Sighthill. For Sighthill and Glasgow's stone circle see

Sighthill Stone Circle

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/sighthill-stone-circle.html

Sighthill Summer Solstice 2010

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/06/sighthill-summer-solstice-2010.html

Sighthill Towers Before the Fall

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/sighthill-towers-before-fall.html

Sighthill Towers After the Fall

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/sighthill-towers-after-fall.html

Handlebar shot

And another - Impact Bodyshop

Carlisle St off to our left. Bowmore Open for Business as usual

Looking back. I once had bricks chucked at me here by a gang of boys about 12

Keppochhill Drive down there

Sighthill Cemetery, Glasgow's second oldest. There is a pretty wee Greek-style temple the other (Springburn Rd) side. See
Sighthill Towers: Before the Fall
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/sighthill-towers-before-fall.html

Handlebar shot

For what used to be here - Springburn Burgh Halls - see

Springburn Burgh Halls and the Winter Gardens

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/springburn-burgh-halls-and-winter.html

Now in Springburn Rd

For more on Springburn see

Springburn

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

Glasgow North-West By-election 2009

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

Looking back

Something pleasing about these wee things, whatever they are

We're heading up the hill, going to join the road further up after flanking it on left for a bit

Springburn Orange Halls

Elmvale Prmary School I think

We are heading up here

Dual carriageway on right

Hmm - a road not chosen. No time

Joining Springburn Rd

Clouds nice and dramatic

NO DUMPING. Let's see what lies over the bridge

Of course

The fine B listed Colston Wellpark church. See
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-33299-1378-springburn-road-colston-wellpark-chu/map

Campsies in the distance. The climber Tom Weir described how as a young boy in Springburn he would hike out to these hills

Oh a recumbent passing

Pressing on

Abandoned petrol station

Locked path to railway

Looking back

World Buffet

Coming into Bishopbriggs

On Kirkintilloch Rd

For more on Bishopbriggs see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishopbriggs

Cadder South Hall - the Cadder parish is over 800 years old. See
http://www.cadderchurch.org.uk/

We'll cross over, have a look at the field

Coming to Park Rd

Coming up to Cowden Drive

Handlebar shot

Bring the Dream Home - In Every Dream Home, a Heartache

When we come back we will be crossing to get to the canal over the road

We're going down that lane across the road

Asda on our right

Love the giant polo mint. Gorgeous house, actually

Coming up to Westerhill Rd

We're heading up here to HarperCollins

HarperCollins coming up on our right

I remember cycling in the morning Ruoert Murdoch took over when we were still Collins - someone had put up Sun posters on the fence

Now back in Kirkintilloch Rd, we are going to head down Hilton Rd over there

East Dunbartonshire Recycling Centre

Hinton becomes Balmuildy Rd

Now at Firth and Clyde Canal

That path not the one we want

Looking back

We head back to Glasgow along that path

Through this gate

What lurks beneath

Looking back

Pressing on. For more on the canal and its swans and fowk see

Forth and Clyde Canal 1

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/forth-and-clyde-canal-part-1.html

Forth and Clyde Canal 2

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/forth-and-clyde-canal-part-2-swans.html

Pressing on

Quite busy for cyclists - we meet our first runner

I like this tree coming up. I commuted along here for about 15 years. An old friend

Handlebar shot

Anglers

The horizon forming a Hogarthian line of beauty

Possil Loch and March off to our right. See

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

From wiki -

'Possil Marsh has been under the custodianship of the Scottish Wildlife Trust since 1982, when it was acquired as a gift. Prior to this it had been managed by the Scottish Society for the Protection of Wild Birds, on behalf of the Scottish Wild Birds Sanctuaries Trust, since 1950. This management, and subsequent protection, has resulted in little alteration within the site in the past 50 years. Due to its importance, the marsh was first notified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1954. Subsequently it was then designated a bird sanctuary under Wild Bird Statutory Instrument 1956 No 333 (S10). Following the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, the bird sanctuary was redesignated under Wild Birds (Possil Marsh Sanctuary Glasgow) Amendment Order 1983. At present the reserve has multiple occupation – 4 owners, 2 occupiers, 1 owner/occupier. It also has British Trust for Ornithology status and district importance for wintering wildfowl, and its diversity of wintering birds, supporting up to 150 bird species, with 22 species recorded breeding. In addition to this it also contains a diverse number ofinvertebrate fauna, including 2 nationally scarce species and a number of locally scarce species, as well as many important plant species.'

Miles to Nowhere

Nice cloud

We'll pause for a moment here

Possil Loch over there

Possil Marsh entrance

Think that's Balmore Rd exit above. . .

. . .and here

Note wee memorial coming up on right

Other side of the bridge

Add caption

Above the railway

More erased destinations

Lochburn Gate, Lochburn Rd

Cadder Rd down there: no relation to the Cadder church we passed in Kirkintilloch Rd

Here we are. We have to drop temporarily off the canal path and head down to Lochburn Rd

More annoying damage to signage

Before we drop down to get to path continuing on other side, we'll have a look around

On bridge looking down - we come down that path on right

Another runner

Across the canal

Another memorial

Celtic scarf and union jack

Candle

Fading images - signs to the past

Red, white and blue, and green

Above us only sky

Down we go

Tricky tunnel to go through, this

Nasty pothole coming up

A horror for cyclists. Duly reported

We rejoin the path up here to the right. Maryhill Rd is up ahead

Looking back

Home stretch now

Handlebar shot

The memorial

Runners more common this side - more people living beside the canal I suppose

Handlebar shot again. These accidental pics are as good as my taken-with-care ones, Sheesh

We'll cut up to the bridge for a minute

The renowned Charles Rennie Mackintosh Ruchill church down there. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruchill_Church_Hall

Runners on Ruchill St, on the bridge

We're heading back along the right path

Down we go

50-66 Ruchill St over there. B-listed See

http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/portal.hsstart?P_HBNUM=33752

Where we started

Down we go

Student residences across the bridge

Back on Maryhill Rd

Let's cross over

Pub for sale

Heading for Queen Margaret Drive

Steps we do not take

Envious Bridal. Envious of what?

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

Today is Sunday 26 May, 2013, and we are off to Hampden Park for the Scottish Cup Final between Celtic and Hibernian. For previous Hampden trips see

Hampden Park: Dundee United v Ross County Cup Final 15 May 2010

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/05/hampden-park-dundee-united-v-ross.html

Hampden Park 2: Heart of Midlothian v Hibernian, Scottish Cup Final 19 May 2012 http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/hampden-park-heart-of-midlothian-v.html

Crossing Victoria bridge

In Gorbals St

Brazen Head coming up on left - Celtic pub

Now in Pollokshaws Rd. For Kate and William visiting here in April see

Pollokshaws Rd at Eglinton Toll: Will and Kate visit Quarriers (and miss a Republican protest)

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/pollokshaws-rd-at-eglinton-toll-will.html

Heading into Victoria rd

Fans heading to Hampden

Queens Cafe

Queen's Park cafe - fans having a drink

Queen's Park ahead; we are turning left

Now in Queen's Drive

Hibs fans - surely didn't come from Edinburgh in that?

Coming up to Battlefield Rd, where we dismount

Like this narrow building. For more on Battlefield (named after the Battle of Langside) see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield,_Glasgow

Note cops above slope. No real trouble anticipated at this game

Now in Cathcart Rd

We're heading up there

Almost all Hibs fans so far

Aye, this was all Hearts stuff last time Hibs were here (see link at start)

Hampden in sight

Collecting for charity

Hibs fans arriving now in good numbers

Oh dear

Blackpool Hibernian - a rare example of a saltire at this game. From England!

Let's cut across and join the Celtic fans

Behind the Buses

Celtic fans coming in

A slogan chanted by both sets of fans: 'Nae Huns at Hampden'

As ever, the horses are popular

For Celtic becoming SPL champions see

Hampden Park 3: Hibernian v Celtic 26 May 2013

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/celtic-are-spl-champions-for-2013-and_4.html

Aye weel

Heading back to Hibs end

Celtic fans doing a huddle

St Pauli shirt on left

A peek inside

The great Pat Stanton

A helping hand

A wee tumble down there

No one hurt

Just larking about

Can ah go hone now Boss?

George Best - Hibs fans are proud of his time with the club

Heading away now

Heading down to Cathcart Rd

Choose Life Not a Knife

A late arrival

Now in Cathcart Rd

Hampden Lane. More salubrious now than it was. See
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=9923

A quiet Cathcart Rd

Now in Prospecthill Rd. This is Mount Florida Medical Centre. See
http://www.mountfloridamedicalcentre.co.uk/

Florida Avenue

Pressing on down Prospecthill Rd

Now heading left down Queen's Drive past the fan buses

Hampden Bowling Club

Queen's Park Recreation Ground

A bus of many dubious delights, including 'dance cages'

Southside Festival

For this fine church building see

http://www.scotcities.com/cathcart/queenspark_churches.htm

From the above site:

'Queen’s Park Established Church, later known as Crosshill Queens Park Church, is situated at 40 Queen’s Drive, facing the Recreation Ground. It opened on Sunday 12 October 1873, with a morning service preached

During the church's lengthy construction period, the congregation met in a temporary structure which had been erected alongside the site of the new building.

It is no longer used as a church, having been converted into 18 flats, the first of which became occupied in September 2004.

The architects of the Queen’s Park Established Church were Campbell Douglas and James Sellars, who designed it in the French Gothic style. Its main feature is the massive square tower topped with an octagonal spire, which can be seen from miles around.'

New Members Welcome - Queen's Park Bowling and Tennis Club

Vintage bus

Another vintage bus

Looking back

Looking in the bus - a bus takes you back

Queen's Park Gates

Looking down Victoria Rd

Wonky pan

Looking back

Another really wonky pan. For more on Victoria Rd and Govanhill 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

Thank you for browsing, dear visitor. And finally, I must plug my book Brief Encounters - the KIndle edn is now available on Amazon for 99p!!!

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There is much Scottish interest in the book, including Macbeth's pilgrimage to meet the Pope, Flora MacDonald meeting Dr Johnson, Walter Scott meeting Burns and much more.

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

Today is Tuesday, 11 June 2013, and just one picture this time, of the front desk at Hillhead Library.

RIP Iain Banks. A tribute I am sure he would have loved

Thank you for browsing, dear visitor. And if I may plug my book Brief Encounters - the Kindle edn is now available on Amazon for 99p!!!

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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

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

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

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) -

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

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

Today is Friday, 21 June 2013 ands we are at Sighthil again for the Summer Solstice. For the 2010 soltice see

Sighthill Summer Solstice 2010

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/06/sighthill-summer-solstice-2010.html

And for Glasgow Council's maddening desire to destroy the Stone Circle see (and please sign the pettion!)

http://www.change.org/petitions/glasgow-city-council-should-scrap-their-plans-to-demolish-sighthill-park-and-its-stone-circle?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_before_sign

The circle is not only resonant of our neolithic past, it is a striking synbol of our recent history, and what constitues 'useful' creative activity in our society; from Duncan's Wikipedia entry =

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

'The conceptual inspiration for the circle came from Lunan's interest in the works of Professor Alexander Thom and his son Dr. Archie Thom, who promoted the understanding of megalithic astronomy, and the subsequent expansion of their work by Dr. Ewan McKie and ProfessorArchie Roy.[6][51][52] The location of the stone circle, on a low hilltop between tower blocks, the M8 motorway and an incinerator, at a first sight seems hardly ideal. However, Lunan has written that the clear sightline to the sky and a fine view of the city center met the project's objectives.[53] Lunan has written that "In later research, I found that summer solstice fairs had been held on the Summerhill, from which themidsummer Sun rises over the true Sighthill, until they were stopped by the church in the 17th century".[5][51][53]

Once he had identified the best location, Lunan organised the transportation of the stones by a helicopter[54] from HMS Gannet. The Moon Stones, being too heavy, had to be transported by specially adapted lorries.[51][55]

The project was not completed due to criticism by the incoming Thatcher government in 1979,[11][54][56][57] and four stones – two of which were intended to mark equinoctial sunrise and sunset, East and West – are still lying under a bush in Sighthill park'

'Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
-But who is that on the other side of you?”'
- T S Eliot

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My other wee blogs are

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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

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

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

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

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

'How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.'

- John Aubrey

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

Today is Saturday, 25 May 2013, and we are going to walk from Lancefield St to St Enochs Square

And first of all, we are paying a visit to Glasgow City Antiques

Looks like Walter Scott on the left

Actually if you don't like antiques and want to get on with the walk, skip the next few dozen pics, I won't be offended

Like the wee guy on the right

Two pals

Two more pals

More pals

King Malcom over there being gallant in one of those medieval costume images that spans around five centuries

The Rusty Grate

Boston Tea Party - biscuit barrel? just the thing for a slaveholder rebellion

A new fable perhaps - the Fox and the Tortoise

A typical Scot

A rolltop desk - an antique of the past, as they say on Bargain Hunt. Cheaper now than they were. I used to covet one

Raise the Titanic - cheaper to lower the Atlantic, Lew Grade said

A hinge with a porpoise no doubt

Great door

Looking up Lancefield St - Stobcross St up there

Heading down to Lancefield Quay

'Plumb Center' - annoying spelling

'Drain Center' - more annoying spelling

Square mail box. Uncommon I think

Finnieston up there. See

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

We're following the cyclists down Lancefield Quay

Now at Hydepark St

Skateboarders crossing

The Daily Record building

The Clyde this side

Looking back

Anderston Quay bus shelter

Commuter heaven

Cafe Culture

Glasgow Central Quay. Opportunities

Award winning

Looking up the Mordorish sounding Warroch St

Cheapside St

Looking up Cheapside St

The Kingston Bridge

Aberfoyle - quite a few more miles up the road

Official art

Unofficial art

The wonderful Co-op building. For more on Kinning Park and Tradeston over there - a land of convenient fires - see Tradeston 3: a Walk among Inconvenient Buildings

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/tradeston-3-walk-among-inconvenient.html

Kinning Park and Govan and Tradeston: the Loyalist Borderlands

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013_05_01_archive.html

and

Ahmadi Mosque to Govan to Ahmadi Mosque

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/ahmadi-mosque-to-govan-to-ahmadi-mosque.html

Memorial to the Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire of 1960, in which 22 firemen were killed. See

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

We are now on the Broomielaw. See

Broomielaw Quay

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/broomielaw-quay.html

Washington St is over the road on our left. This is where we pick up this morning walk from Charing Cross to Dalmarnock -

Welcome to Glasgow 3: Charing Cross station to Dalmarnock station

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

The Tradeston Bridge. For what the bridge and the Clyde look like in the placid early morning light see last 'Welcome to Glasgow' link

Looking up McAlpine St

For details in the bridges along here, see the Welcome to Glasgow link above

The old Ladies Toilet. Built like a brick shithouse, as they say

La Pash coming up on left

For more on the statue see

Swingergate Day 45: Waiting for the Verdict

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

We are about to cross Clyde St

Looking west towards Broomielaw

Heading up Dixon St

Looking back

St Enoch Square coming up

For more on St Enoch Square see

St Enoch Square Through the Glass

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/st-enoch-square-through-glass.html

For more on Howard St and this wildly mixed area see the Swingergate series, eg

Swingergate Day 11: 'How's He No' Gettin' Drapped Aff?'

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/swingergate-part-2-hows-he-no-gettin.html

Buchanan St ahead; for a linking walk from Central station down Buchanan St to here see

Central Station to St Enoch Square via Buchanan St

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/central-station-to-st-enoch-square-via.html

Cops though the glass

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My other wee blogs are

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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

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

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

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) -

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

'How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.'

- John Aubrey

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

Today we are having a look over a few months at the tenements in Colebrooke St in the west end; bought by Glasgow Academy to be demolished in order that the school may build a science centre on the ground. The invaluable Hidden Glasgow forum has some interesting discussion on the condition of the tenements -

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11542

Quote:

'Re: Are the tenements on Colebrooke St leaning backwards ?

by viceroy » Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:55 am

It is not an illusion. There is serious subsidence in this particular area, caused apparently by ancient mineworkings going back to the late 18th / early 19th C. It has been a problem for years. The tenement on Great Western Road went first, followed about twenty years ago by the terraced houses at the lower end of Belmont Street (sad for me as I lived in one of them as a wee boy in the 1950's). Now it is obviously the turn of the closes in Colebrooke Steet.

For the sake of those who live in the replacement housing put up in Belmont Street and on GWR, I just hope that the ground was properly stabilised first.

End Quote

Indeed! For the 'Supporting Statement For Demolition of a non-listed building in a

Conservation Area on behalf of The Glasgow Academy' see

http://pdfserver3c.glasgowcitycouncil.co.uk/WAM/doc/Other-401209.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=401209&location=Volume2&contentType=&pageCount=1

For more destruction of incovenient buildings see

Buchanan St 3: Georgian Buildings Coming Down

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

Tradeston 3: a Walk among Inconvenient Buildings

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/tradeston-3-walk-among-inconvenient.html

Tenements to be demolished on right. They date from the 19th century. Glasgow Academy on left

Glasgow Academy Building. Not coming down

Looking down towards Great Western Rd

Looking up to Belmont St

Flashback to January: fox and pigeon footprints - not made at same time

There is a fair variety of wildlife round Colebroke St. Here a resident grey squirrel and wood pigeon share a double bowl of nuts

Not without squabbles though

This pair also regulars

The squirrel had a bit of mange for a while

On the watch

Watch doubled

Pigeons conversing

The resident fox - been here since a cub. He is eating nuts put out for the pigeons

A quiet scratch in the car park

A very civil neighbour is the fox. Eats snails - a gardener's friend. I have a series of cheery pics of his interactions with the Burmese cat. He wants to be friends, the cat doesn't

This Burmese cat is not such a civil neighbour. Lives up Belmont St. Has been belled but is a skilled hunter - has predated at least two pigeons

The squirrel loved this netting, would run up and down it happily

Dead young magpie with a gaping chest wound which fell from the tree- possibly inflicted by the Burmese cat, though there are hawks that attack magpies. Body was gone by the morning. The wee fox is an efficient scavenger

Squirrel doing his own herbivorous scavenging. He holds his own against the cat, the fox and the magpies

The Angel at your back

Not pleased. Bad words

Hi!

The red lamp

A Yorkshire pudding pulled from the bin by our resourceful squirrel

Hmm! Yorkshire puddings don't grow on trees

I heard a noise in the recycling bin and looked in and there - improbably - was a young magpie. How the hell it got in I don't know - maybe panicked by the noise of the demolition - the neighbouring houses shake when the rubble is loaded onto lorries. The Belmont St houses apparently sit on a concrete platform

He/she wouldn't leave after I opened the lid so I tipped the bin slightly and put my arm in, at which point the bird sqawked and flew off. God speed, little one

Nice detail on glass and stone

A messy pan

The demolishers - a firm called SafeDem - are taking down the connection between the tenements to come down on left, and the newer building on right

War. Residents have complained to Glasgow Planning Dept about the speed and practice of the demolition

Dust - a highly uncomfortable and possible toxic dust - covers everything

One of the wee Colebrooke St trees

One of the wood pigeon pairs

As we observed earlier, dust everywhere. SaefDem have been asked what they will be doing to clean up - no response

Car covered in dust and debris. Not SafeDem's job to clean it up, they say

Once a welcoming hearth

And another, with its mirror

Rain at last

Note temporary (very temporary) barrier into the back court. After SafeDem removed the iron security gate from here, they left the entrance wide open, and there was almost immediately a series of raids - in one night, we had bike theft and vandalism, and even the wee fox was harassed by neds who tried to corner it. Local councillors have been supportive, most especially our Green Party councillor, Martha Wardrop, whose efforts ensured this temporary barrier was erected.

The gate

The former car park exit, now both entrance and exit - and wide open to all

Thank you for browsing, dear visitor. And finally, I must plug my wee book Brief Encounters - the KIndle edn is now available on Amazon for 99p!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Brief-Encounters-Geronimo-ebook/dp/B009MAO9FG/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371034153&sr=1-2&keywords=brief+encounters+edwin+moore

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

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

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

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) -

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

'How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.'

- John Aubrey

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

Glasgow's current marketing slogan has been announced as 'People Make Glasgow'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23084390

Quote:

'a creative team from the marketing bureau came up with the new slogan, which was approved by board members.

Councillor Matheson added: "Over the past five weeks we have reviewed all of the contributions from Glaswegians and from across the globe.

"We also interviewed more than 40 of Glasgow's leaders from the private, public and academic sectors and, overwhelmingly, they told us that what makes Glasgow great is its people."

Professor Sir Jim McDonald, principal of Strathclyde University, said: "This launch is another milestone in Glasgow's renaissance and it celebrates what makes us a great city.

"It is absolutely fitting that the city is putting its citizens front and centre with the new brand."

Glasgow Chamber of Commerce chief executive Stuart Patrick said: "On behalf of the business community, we warmly welcome the new brand.

"Now our job is to go out and use the brand's core message to sell Glasgow to the world."

End Quote

Am not much of a salesman myself, but here is a sampler of people in Glasgow (if not necessarily from Glasgow) - and also a few non-human animals.

One of my favourite pics; a quick kiss at Glasgow Cross in the march against cuts. See

STUC March Against Public Spending Cuts

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/stuc-march-against-public-spending-cuts.html

Love this one too - an 'Accidental Tondo'. Lots going on in that hoop frame. See

West End Festival June 2010

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/west-end-festival-june-2010.html

Fab stiltwalkers on Glasgow Green. See

Glasgow Green: the 2010 Scottish Junior Run

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/glasgow-green-2010-scottish-junior-run.html

A romantic encounter in Buchanan St Bus station. See

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

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/public-art-1-buchanan-st-bus-station_7.html

Life imitates art

A hug in Sauchiehall St. See

Sauchiehall St and Buchanan St: street life February 2013

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/sauchiehall-st-and-buchanan-st-street.html

Speaker from the Destiny Angel church; see link above. Hug in background

Evangelical dancer from the Destiny church; RC nun in background

My Washington State cousin Bill with Pakistani piper at the 2010 Piping Festival. Many thousands of miles apart in birth, but a shared love of the pipes. See

Glasgow Piping Festival

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/glasgow-piping-festival.html

No argument about who wears the troosers here

Quantum of Solace: a soldier tidies a wreath in George Square

George Square

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/george-square.html

A soldier holds some balloons in Buchanan st. See

Sauchiehall St and Buchanan St: street life February 2013

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/sauchiehall-st-and-buchanan-st-street.html

Some banter

Big Issue seller and his lovely dog Max

A cycle from Kelvingrove Park to Clydebank and back, to raise funds for the Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre at Glasgow University. See

Cycle Glasgow 2012 - Sunday 19 August

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/cycle-glasgow-2012-sunday-19-august.html

One of Glasgow's street entertainers. See

Entertainers 2: the Golden Man

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

One from a forthcoming series on Roma Big Issue sellers and beggars in Glasgow

Glasgow's Sikhs. See

Glasgow's Sikhs

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/glasgows-sikhs.html

This and the next four pics are from the opening of the Pollokshields Gurdwara -

Glasgow's Sikhs 3: the Pollokshields Gurdwara

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/glasgows-sikhs-3-pollokshields-gurdwara.html

Laughter in the Rain

One often finds memorials such as this on bridges and by the roadside. See

Clyde St to Victoria Rd to Bridge St

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/clyde-st-to-victoria-rd-to-bridge-st.html

Celtic scarf and colours with Union Jack bag by the Forth and Clyde canal. See

Welcome to Glasgow 6: West End to Bishopbriggs - Main Drag up, Canal Back

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/welcome-to-glasgow-6-west-end-to.html

Dundee United and Ross County fans at Hampden. See

Hampden Park: Dundee United v Ross County Cup Final 15 May 2010

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/hampden-park-dundee-united-v-ross.html

Bananaman bonds with police horse

From a forthcoming post on the Scotland v Ukraine friendly

Celtic fans having a huddle. See

Hampden Park 3: Hibernian v Celtic 26 May 2013

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/hampden-park-3-hibernian-v-celtic-26.html

Celtic fans celebrate winning the league. See

Celtic are SPL Champions for 2013: and a walk down London Rd

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/celtic-are-spl-champions-for-2013-and_4.html

Rangers fans marching in support of their club. See

Glasgow Rangers 2: the 50,000 sellout match

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/glasgow-rangers-2-50000-sellout-match.html

St Patrick blessing a Rangers scarf. See

Tommy Burns Tribute 16 May 2008

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/tommy-burns-tribute-16-may-2009.html

I left my Partick Thistle hat beside the Rangers strip

Firhill, home of Partick Thistle. See

Sunshine on Firhill: Partick Thistle 1, Morton 0

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/sunshine-on-firhill-partick-thistle-1.html

Old Guard Jags fans

Thistle mascot getting instructions

Glasgow's Horrible 'Pay Your Rent First' poster. Most charmless poster I have ever seen. See

Red Road Flats

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/red-road-flats.html

The last remnant (now gone) of an older marketing campaign, Glasgow's Smiles Better. See

Gorbals 3: Saltmarket to Tradeston

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

Refugee march from Red Road Flats passes a closed City Chambers. See

Red Road Flats part 3

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/red-road-flats-part-3.html

Squirrel eating a Yorkshire pudding foraged from the bins. See

Colebrooke st tenements: more inconvenient Glasgow buildings come down

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/colebrooke-st-tenements-more.html

Pagans and Druids at the 2013 Sighthill Summer Solstice. See

Sighthill Summer Solstice 2013

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/sighthill-summer-solstice-2013.html

A perfect Hogarthian line of beauty

Cycling beside the Forth and Clyde canal. See

elcome to Glasgow 6: West End to Bishopbriggs - Main Drag up, Canal Back

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/welcome-to-glasgow-6-west-end-to.html

Courting swans. See

Sampler 1: Some Forth and Clyde Canal Photies

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

Swans and cygnet

Reaching for the sky in Glasgow. See

Riverside Museum: Danny MacAskill and the Clan come to Glasgow - Part 1

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/riverside-museum-danny-macaskill-and.html

Riverside Museum: Danny MacAskill and the Clan come to Glasgow - Part 2

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/riverside-museum-danny-macaskill-and_14.html

Thank you for browsing, dear visitor. And finally, I must plug my wee book Brief Encounters - the KIndle edn is now available on Amazon for 99p!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Brief-Encounters-Geronimo-ebook/dp/B009MAO9FG/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371034153&sr=1-2&keywords=brief+encounters+edwin+moore

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

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

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

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) -

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

'How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.'

- John Aubrey

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

Today is 18 Juy, 2013, and we are on another sojourn out of our accustomed sphere - we are at Castlerigg, near Penrith, but there is a good link with our Glasgow Album - we were at the most recent astronomically aligned stone circle in Europe for the summer solstice a few weeks ago - see

http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/sighthill-summer-solstice-2013.html

and now we are at one of the oldest of all stone circles, the numinous stone circle at Castlerigg, the Wiki entry for which is splendid. See

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

It is evening

Celtic are SPL Champions for 2013: and a walk down London Rd

Glasgow's Sikhs 3: the Pollokshields Gurdwara

Ahmadi Mosque to Govan to Ahmadi Mosque

Kinning Park and Govan and Tradeston: the Loyalist Borderlands

Welcome to Glasgow 6: West End to Bishopbriggs - Main Drag up, Canal Back

Hampden Park 3: Hibernian v Celtic 26 May 2013

RIP Iain Banks

Sighthill Summer Solstice 2013

Central Station to St Enoch Square via Buchanan St

Alexander 'Greek' Thomson 8: the Sixty Steps 3

Central Station

Glasgow City Antiques at Lancefield St to St Enoch Square

Colebrooke st tenements: more inconvenient Glasgow buildings come down

Sampler 2: People and Other Animals Make Glasgow

Castlerigg Stone Circle

Cessnock Underground to Claremont Centre via Plantation Park

A Man and his Dog 2

RIP Clutha Victims

Say NO to Tesco in Scotland

RIP Nelson Mandela