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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 17, 2026July 17, 2026

There’s still a little bit left.

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.

Categories: Architecture, Folk worth talking about, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: artists, Aubri Decker, brother + sistor, folk worth talking about, Glasgow, Gorbals, I want to be part of history, Joan Eardley, Local time passed into history, No Room in Frame, Omphalos films, Singing Street, Sydney Goodsir Smith, The hands of an artist, Time passes. Listen, Townhead, two girls singing, Women artists
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 17, 2026July 17, 2026

The Seeing Eye: Alan Daiches

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

Categories: Folk worth talking about, Scotland, Time passesTags: Aberdeen, Alan Daiches, artists, David Bowie, Demarco, Edinburgh, folk worth talking about, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kynd Kittock's Land, Norman McCaig, Photography, poets, Robert Fergusson, Stone Heart, Sydney Goodsir Smith, The Future of Scottish Poetry, The Seeing Eye, Two Scottish Photographers, Usher Hall, ways of seeing
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