Images: colour and monochrome. Text: English and/or Scots.
Gable-end murals on tenements have been a prominent form of public art in Glasgow since they first appeared in the 1970s. This one in Govan, entitled Georgie, is the work of Australian-born artist Smug (Sam Bates) and was unveiled in 2022. From 122 years earlier, a contrasting example of public art: St Mungo as the … Continue reading Georgie and Mungo – Public Art in Glasgow
Below are some screen grabs from a film of the 1972 Right to Work March. They show the Glasgow contingent heading for London (where a Slade concert awaits them!). The Scots language/the Scots leid:Ablow is some screen cleeks frae a fillum o the 1972 Richt tae Wark Mairch. They shaw the Glesca contingent airtin fur … Continue reading Right to Work March
The Kibble Palace started off as a conservatory at John Kibble’s house in Cove, Dunbartonshire, around 1865. In 1871 it was floated down Loch Long and then up the Rivers Clyde an Kelvin to its new home in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow’s West End. Popular with both tourists and Glaswegians, you can see all … Continue reading The Kibble Palace
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Pairtick Corse, Glesca.
On my way home from the Chain of Freedom, I encountered this demonstration outside the BBC Scotland HQ at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. One of the protestors told me they were objecting to what they claimed was BBC bias in its coverage of the situation in Gaza and Israel.
The Chain of Freedom was a demonstration in support of Scottish independence and took place on the 14th of October 2023. The section of the human chain in the photographs below came together beside the Forth and Clyde Canal at Maryhill in north-west Glasgow.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:A dander i the Botanic Gairdens, Glesca.
… on the Empire Exhibition Monument in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The Exhibition took place in 1938, and featured, among many other attractions, the pavilions of Canada, Southern Rhodesia and Scotland. The granite memorial in the photograph, along with the Peace Cairn and the Palace of Art, are the only remnants in the park of one … Continue reading The Sun Sets …
The Summer of Love comes late to Glasgow.
Rally in George Square, Glasgow, on the 16th of September 2023. You can see more photos of this event in the Gallery.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Hyne awa, the Mossies.
Glasgow Central Mosque.
Built 1960-63. Modern architecture from sixty years ago.The Scots language/the Scots leid:Fleemin Hoose, Glesca. Biggit 1960-63. Modren architectur frae saxtie year syne.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Stell-lum, Glesca.
Pollok House was built in 1747-52 for the Maxwell family of Pollok, and added to in the 19th and 20th centuries.The Scots language/the Scots leid:Pollok Hoose wis biggit in 1747-52 tae the Maxwell faimlie o Pollok, an eikit till i the 19t an 20t hunners.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Keekin gless at the Glesca Sheence Centre.
The captions say:Mary Barbour. 1875 - 1958. Lived here on Uist Street in 1915 while leading the Govan Rent Strikes. Working Class Political Activist, Local Councillor, Bailie & Magistrate. Campaigned for better housing, healthcare, means-tested benefits & family planning clinics. Founder member of the Glasgow Women’s Housing Association & the Women’s Peace Crusade during WW1. … Continue reading Barbour and Elder
The Scots language/the Scots leid:The Glesca Toor at the Glesca Sheence Centre.
A business park in Glasgow. Among many other activities, nanosatellites are built, tested and integrated here.The Scots language/the Scots leid:A business pairk in Glesca. Amang a feck ither acteevities, nanosatellites is biggit, preed an integrate here.
Too late?The Scots language/the Scots leid:Aw oot?
Pictures taken in Glasgow, 5th and 6th August 2023.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Eddication owthority.
On New Year’s Eve 1973, Scotland’s first ever legal, land-based commercial radio station began broadcasting from the recently completed Anderston Cross Centre in Glasgow. Radio Clyde promised ‘music, news and fun’ and if audience figures the following year were anything to go by the people of West Central Scotland were convinced that the upstart station had … Continue reading Altogether Groovy
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Glesca wa-heids.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:The shaws at St. Enoch Square, Glesca.
A middle-class city of the dead, its residents mostly Victorians, and its monuments making it clear that some Glaswegians had better housing after they had died than many of their fellow citizens experienced while they were still alive. The Scots language/the Scots leid:A hauf-knabbie ceetie o the deid, its indwallers maistlie Victorians, an its moniments … Continue reading The Glasgow Necropolis
From Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Gate muisicker, Glesca.
The 175 feet high Finnieston Crane was once used to load locomotives and boilers, among other heavy objects, onto vessels on the River Clyde. It was operational from 1932 until 1988.
The Clydeport Building, as it’s now known, was designed by Glasgow architect Sir John James Burnet, and built 1883-1886 and 1906-1908. It features sculptures by John Mossman and Albert Hodge. You can read more about it here and here. The Scots language/the Scots leid:The Clydeport Biggin, as it’s kent noo, wis designed bi Glesca architect … Continue reading The Clyde Navigation Trust Building, Glasgow
Businessman John Morrison had this Scots-baronial villa built for himself in Pollokshields, on Glasgow’s South Side, in 1896. There’s more about it here. The Scots language/the Scots leid:Businessman John Morrison haid this Scots-baronial villa biggit till hissel in Pollokshields, on Glesca’s Sooside, in 1896. There mair aboot it here.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:The Tredstoon Brig, Glesca.
Haggs Castle was built for Sir John Maxwell of Pollok in the 1580s and was restored and enlarged in the 19th century. In 1976 it became a museum allowing children, and adults, to experience a little of life in the past. It is now a privately-owned house. The Scots language/the Scots leid:Haggs Castle wis biggit … Continue reading Haggs Castle, Glasgow
Lest one thinks that one has arrived at Firhill (Partick Thistle).The Scots language/the Scots leid:Case be a bodie’s thinkin they’v won tae Firhull (Pairtick Thrissel).
In 1972, Glasgow-born Stuart Christie and the rest of the ‘Stoke Newington Eight’ were the defendants in the ‘Angry Brigade Trial’ at the Old Bailey in London. Christie and three others were acquitted. Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelssohn and two others were jailed for a bombing conspiracy. The screen grabs below are from Angry Brigade: the … Continue reading Urban Guerillas?
The Scots language/the Scots leid:A wheen modren biggins on Argyle Street, Glesca.
Glasgow’s growing Jewish population in the 1870s meant that a larger synagogue was badly needed, and so Scotland’s first purpose-built synagogue was constructed at Garnethill in the City Centre between 1879 an 1881. You can read more about it here. The Scots language/the Scots leid:Glesca’s growin Jewish population meant a muckler seenagogue was sair nott, … Continue reading Garnethill Synagogue
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Leukin wast frae Garnethull, Glesca.
Around 1800 in Glasgow, flashy presentation of local news meant the handsomely attired George ‘Bell Geordie’ Gibson ringing his bell and making it known that beef was for sale at Samuel Ramsay’s cellar and Christy Dunlop was dressing the dead.The Scots language/the Scots leid:Aboot 1800 in Glesca, fantoosh praisentation o local news meant the brawlie … Continue reading Bell Geordie
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