No. 255
255 Parliamentary Road, Townhead, Glasgow stood for a number of centuries until it was demolished in the 1960s to make way for ‘improvement works’. It was one of Glasgow’s original … Continue reading No. 255
Tag: infant mortality
‘Sympathy, fellow feeling . . .’
Earlier this summer I visited Bonskeid to remember Robert Fowler Barbour who died in infancy. He was the first of the family to be buried in the [private] Bonskeid burial … Continue reading ‘Sympathy, fellow feeling . . .’
Clad Chille
Earlier this summer I visited Clad Chille [Culdee burial site] that sits above the river Tummel: Trove [RCAHMS] Index Card: Culdee burial ground [photograph by Peter Scott-Gordon]: From the Memoir … Continue reading Clad Chille
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
National Playing Fields Association
Lorne Place, Leith, Edinburgh:
‘Fight to keep a playpark’
10 August 1967, Glasgow Daily Record: Image from Trove archive: The Red Road Development:
Little girl from the Big House
This film is for the Tennant family, The Glen: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music credit: Blow, Bugle, Blow by Alfred, Lord … Continue reading Little girl from the Big House
Priesthope
I have no religion, but I needed to find your grave, and to chalk a coloured heart on your now ruined home. Marion, there is love in hope. In remembering … Continue reading Priesthope