being and becoming in the world
If you travel by railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow [vice-versa] [versa-vice] you will have passed-by [at speed] this burial ground to ‘friendship and truth’ Friends’ Burial Ground:To play this short … Continue reading As inaccessible as the horizon
This film is about the gardens of Gartshore House, near Kirkintilloch. Gartshore was owned by the Whitelaw family. Gartshore House was demolished in 1955. Gartshore Garden Party: To play this … Continue reading Gartshore Garden Party
Above the Clyde estuary, behind the village of Bowling, there is astonishing cup-marked stone: The stone is not far from Auchentorlie Temple: When I saw the 1915 drawing of the … Continue reading Auchentorlie
This photograph of Frisky Hall Inn was taken by Duncan Brown in 1856. This once popular Inn no longer survives. It sat within an orchard on the north bank of … Continue reading Frisky Hall
Woodbank Hotel, once a home, now a ruin, still looks out upon Loch Lomond: GUTTED: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. This film … Continue reading Reminders of former grandeur
I was saddened to read in today’s Scotsman that NVA’s plan to turn neglected St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, into a cultural venue have collapsed: I visited St Peter’s Seminary on … Continue reading Fate of Scotland’s ‘Modern Ruin’ uncertain
The ruin of St Peter’s Seminary has been in the news. This given the Hinterland event of music and lighting: In December 2013 I visited St Peter’s Seminary. I found it … Continue reading A Modern Ruin