being and becoming in the world
Time passes. Listen. Time passes: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
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.
Aberdeen beach.
In the Trove archive, I recently came across the wonderful photography of Alan Daiches [died 2006]. The above advertisement page is from The Scotsman, 11 October 1969. Here are some … Continue reading The Seeing Eye: Alan Daiches
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
A few photographs taken last Sunday in Broughty Ferry:
The article above is from the Dundee Evening Telegraph, 18 April 1932. 10 April 1855, Dundee Courier: 1 June 1859, Dundee Courier: 1859, Ordnance Survey map: 29 July 1859, Montrose … Continue reading Barometer Cottage, Broughty Ferry
[Words taken from the novel Any Human Heart by William Boyd]
Trove archive: Two vans belonging to the Sons of Scotland Temperance Friendly Society stand in a street of Larkhall (where the headquarters were based), Dalserf parish, Lanarkshire, in around 1955. … Continue reading Time Savings Clock