being and becoming in the world
Scotland today and Scotland past
Green’s Playhouse, Art Deco, super-cinema, Nethergate, Dundee opened on 4 March 1936.Designed by John Fairweather, it held over 4,000 seats and featured an iconic 85-foot-tall glass and steel tower. It … Continue reading The SUPER SOUND Cinema
Last month, whilst visiting my son and his partner in London, I noticed this retail premises on Mill Road, West Hampstead: The old styling had me intrigued. Clearly, at one … Continue reading 100 Mill Lane
On our recent visit to the Young Artists’ Summer Show we had to enter through the basement of the Royal Academy of Arts. We passed by an array of statuary … Continue reading In the Basement
97 Buchanan Street, Glasgow [this image is from the Trove archive]
I have a deep fondness for Footdee, Aiberdeen. A distant grandfather was Fittie’s ‘Tragic Harbourmaster‘ and is buried in St Clement’s churchyard. 1899 Ordnance Survey map: Bookless Brothers Preserving Works: … Continue reading BOOKLESS BROS.
In the Trove archive I came across a 1950s map of the centre of Edinburgh. On the reverse of the map was this : My favourite memory of Jenners returns … Continue reading ‘a streetful of shops under one roof’
An advertisement in Berwickshire News, 23 November 1954.
North Star and Farmers Chronicle, 30 August 1947: