Designer and coder and all that, into places and spaces though mainly local, ancient or modernist. Currently writing a book on the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival.
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Major announcement: 'The 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival' - the first full account of the Glasgow Garden Festival - is now available to preview and pre-order. And a print of the Garden Festival sketch map is available right now! gardenfestivalbook.com/
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Seems like the right kinda time to repost this (rather hastily recorded and sloppily produced) wee tune about Scottish people which I wrote a couple of years ago ventilator1.bandcamp.com/tra…
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This was nearly over before I pressed the button. Adult Kingfisher is feeding a wee fish to newly-fledged junior 1 (with back to camera), then junior 2 arrives, and then all three exit to left of frame. On the River Kelvin in Glasgow this afternoon.
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Yes, I can - it’s Glasgow after a decision has been reached about the Woodside Viaduct
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Jun 6
Bridge Street underground photographed in 1982. The Trans-Clyde branding was introduced in 1979 and replaced by Strathclyde Transport in 1983.
📷 B. Grisly, Glasgow Museums
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The abandoned Hotel Belvédère, Furka Pass, Switzerland
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Before the revamp and gates the graffiti down there was interesting: a mix of the usual stuff and, oddly, a lot of William Blake quotes. I remember a scary passage when most of the lights had failed on a summer evening and reaching the end felt like some kind of slight rebirth.
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Clyde Foot Tunnel - one of the most dystopian places in Glasgow, where you have to contact the control centre to exit.
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Years of absolute lack of care for Glasgow's built environment must come to an end one day. Edinburgh used to do just as badly but the vandalism has largely been ended here. Short thread on what you can do to help this specific building ⬇️
There will be a council planning meeting on the 16th June 2026 to decide whether Thomas Lennox Watson's 1883 Greek Revival Hillhead Baptist Church in the West End of Glasgow can be demolished to make way for flats.
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#glasgow #hillhead #architecture #church
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This is pretty big news
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One of Glasgow's more confusing icons will soon disappear from Partick - the infamous Hot Doughnut sign.
For over a decade the slightly terrifying mascot has loomed over Dumbarton Road, proving a perennial trender online and starring in its own merchandise line.
But the grinning human-doughnut hybrid is being retired as the business' owner Sylwia Knaak moves into wholesale.
She's giving fans - who tell her the sign belongs in Kelvingrove Museum - the chance to get their photo taken with the eponymous Hot Doughnut when it comes down a week on Saturday.
Sylwia also gave us a sneak peek at one of the discarded designs... which may have proven even hotter.
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Kudos to @GlasgowCC for reopening the path in the Botanics s of the Kelvin - including the wee branch at the top that’s been closed since I can remember. Great to have this delightful bit of urban woodland, secluded from the traffic noise of GWR, available again.
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Just thinking @BGallagherColl will be pleased about the news (first time I enjoyed walking the path once more I found myself eye-to-eye with one of those herons for about ten minutes).
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RIP Michael Keating
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Inspired by @is_glasgow I thought I’d repost my old mini-investigation into an abandoned path at the botanics - just in case any of you find yourselves knocking about the late sometime soon
The Abandoned Path of the Botanic Gardens - a micro-investigation-and-survey! (Images: view A and an index showing photo views and their orientations, overlaid on the 1949 map - all maps OS and via NLS Maps)
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May 19
My #UrbanPrehistory book, The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World: Deep Time in Global Urban Spaces, is now available for pre-order in the UK, and I expect it to come out towards the end of 2026. I'm currently working on the proofs.
bloomsbury.com/uk/archaeolog…
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