It was an expressive silence
One of my next poems will be on Dickson’s Close, Edinburgh. It will be narrated by a paperboy [when I was young I used to deliver the Edinburgh Evening News].What … Continue reading It was an expressive silence
Category: Architecture
A wide collection of material about, or relating to, architecture
Garrick farm
I have a real saft spot for Braco, as it was here, in the old Inn that my grandfather took us for Sunday roasts. This was back in the early … Continue reading Garrick farm
‘The SHOP that Aids ECONOMISTS’
The shop of Hugh Dillon [died 1917] and his son Henry [died 1925]: 1858 OS map, Wooer’s Street, Falkirk: 19 July 1884, Falkirk Herald: Trove image, Wooer’s Street, Falkirk: 24 … Continue reading ‘The SHOP that Aids ECONOMISTS’
‘Fight to keep a playpark’
10 August 1967, Glasgow Daily Record: Image from Trove archive: The Red Road Development:
Drumsheugh House
Drumsheugh House, Edinburgh: 16 November 1774, Caledonian Mercury: 9 February 1799, Caledonian Mercury: 1804 map, by John Ainslie: 1810 Estate map [source: Lands and Houses of Drumsheugh] 30 May 1829, … Continue reading Drumsheugh House
ATHLETIC BAR
The ATHLETIC BAR, Rothesay, Bute:
There’s still a little bit left.
Joan Eardley, speaking from her Townhead studio, Glasgow [probably late 1950s]: “The community feeling is rapidly disappearing in Glasgow . . . I do feel there is still a little … Continue reading There’s still a little bit left.
LEAVE YOUR MARK
This ‘farewell’ image is of the “Leave Your Mark” wall from The Royal Hospital for Sick Children (“Sick Kids”) in Edinburgh, before the hospital relocated to its new facility at … Continue reading LEAVE YOUR MARK