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Tag: Orphanage

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 29, 2018December 4, 2024

Where the world’s youth met

On Sunday 28th January 2018 I visited the Sailors’ Orphanage, Balrossie, Kilmalcolm. In 1935 it became a Training Camp for the Boys Brigade “where the world’s youth” met. To play … Continue reading Where the world’s youth met

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: abandoned, graffiti, Hale Bopp, Omphalos films, Orphanage, Renfrewshire, ruins
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 14, 2018December 5, 2024

‘Sometimes my wee best seems just not good enough’

In a letter to his friend Stephen Bann, the artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay once concluded “Sometimes my wee best seems just not good enough”. This is a feeling … Continue reading ‘Sometimes my wee best seems just not good enough’

Categories: Architecture, Medical humanities, ScotlandTags: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Lanarkshire, Orphanage
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 8, 2018December 5, 2024

Smyllum Park

    Smyllum was then purchased by Miss Carmichael of Eastend.  She died of old age at Smyllum in January 1859        

Categories: Architecture, Medical humanities, ScotlandTags: Lanarkshire, Orphanage
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 29, 2018December 5, 2024

Where the world’s youth meets

On Sunday 28th January 2018 I visited the Sailors’ Orphanage, Balrossie, Kilmalcolm. In 1935 it became a Training Camp for the Boys Brigade “where the world’s youth” met. To play … Continue reading Where the world’s youth meets

Categories: Omphalos films, ScotlandTags: abandoned, graffiti, Omphalos films, Orphanage, Renfrewshire
Peter Scott-Gordon: gardener, artist, retired doctor: peter@holeousia.com
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