looking-around-all-the-while
Wednesday mornings, when I go to Bannockburn House with Sam, where we both work as voluntary gardeners, I take my camera. While we work in the garden we chat, but … Continue reading looking-around-all-the-while
Category: Time passes
Time passes. Listen. Time passes: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
Princes Street station was closed in 1965 and has since been demolished
The above photograph was taken in 1950 by Tom E, Gray 23 April 1898, The Ambulance Crew, Princes Street Station: 1959, Princes Street Station to be closed: All photographs from … Continue reading Princes Street station was closed in 1965 and has since been demolished
Telephone Exchanges
EDINBURGH. The photograph above is from Trove. This is the supporting information provided with it: 13 December 1900, Edinburgh Evening Dispatch: 3 March 1977, The Scotsman: ABERDEEN. 16 November 1906, … Continue reading Telephone Exchanges
Temple to Time & Eternity
Donibristle chapel and family vault, Fife [Trove ] Ordnance Survey Book entry: Donibristle House, circa 1840: 8 April 1858, Glasgow Courier: 26 May 1859, Fifeshire Journal: 27 March 1895, Perthshire … Continue reading Temple to Time & Eternity
The NORTHERN HOTEL
I cannot begin to guess how many folk have personal memories associated with the Northern Hotel, Kittybrewster, Aberdeen. My memories are of wonderful ceilidhs held there when I was a … Continue reading The NORTHERN HOTEL
Rotterdam Street
Interested in architecture and design, I came across this architect’s sketch in the Trove archive. It was drawn for Fred Shearer Ltd, Rotterdam Street, Thurso. Archive material about Fred Shearer … Continue reading Rotterdam Street
The SUPER SOUND Cinema
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