Back in 2023, I kind of blew the bank, to acquire this hand-coloured panorama of the city, engraved by H W Brewer and published in The Graphic magazine on 12 May 1888, to mark the occasion of The International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry, in Kelvingrove Park.
Clear blue sky, sandy beach with tide out. Two benches with no one sitting on them. The beach is quiet.
The beautiful Elie beach in Fife on this cold and crisp March day
Thanks Leigh. Glasgow was the starting point for so many important grocery firms and nice to see that small architectural details still survive to link with their history.
Prestos also a blast from the past!
My book launch @ Scottish Maritime Museum 7 March.
I know most friends on here are nowhere near the West of Scotland, but my talk will be recorded & on Youtube early next week.
If you can attend in person (so I am not talking to an empty room......), book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-and-b...
Waterloo International Terminal, Lambeth - Grimshaw Architects (1988-94)
Waterloo International Terminal, Lambeth - Grimshaw Architects (1988-94)
Waterloo International Terminal, Lambeth - Grimshaw Architects (1988-94)
EVENT: Join C20 for the fourth High-Tech dialogue of our Spring Lecture Series, featuring architect Neven Sidor (@grimshawarch.bsky.social) in conversation with Laura Mark, C20 Head of Casework.
🗓️ Thu 5 Mar, 6.30–8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
White snowdrops with green stems. Honey bee flying onto the flower
Sun is finally out and the snowdrops are humming with honey bees 🐝
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Sigh. Sadly all too common using whatever tiles happened to be in the van…
Mosaic floor in white, brown and red with stripes and wave features
Wooden beds, large religious paintings and table and wooden chairs. painted green walls. Extensive mosaic floor with border detail.
For #MosaicsOnMonday here’s a beautiful mosaic floor in the incredible Hotel Dieu in Beune, France. This room dates to 17thC.
Image of new Cullen Tea Towels
Our brand new Cullen Tea Towels are available to purchase in the Discover Cullen online shop and they will be available to buy in person from the Cullen Skink World Championships 2026 on Sunday 1st March.
Order online at discovercullen.com
Two small cardboard boxes with paint samples decorated with Little Greene paper and paint. Yellow pack with Brew Tea company. Colourful wallpaper samples with green envelope with plant pattern.
I do like it when companies take care over packaging. Thoughtful and beautiful from @little-greene.bsky.social paint and paper company including a free paintbrush and teabag! Arrived really quickly too.
Check them out
www.littlegreene.com
Brown dried leaves with white fungus on twigs
Woodland floor with dried leaves and spots of white fungus on twigs which look like ice
Some in a woodland in Perthshire recently.
Very elegant. Beautiful doorway too.
Such a beautiful shop. Has a very rare surviving circular glass showcase on the corner.
Nice mosaic entrances too if my memory serves me well.
And good ghost signs above.
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
BBC News - Town centre 'heritage gems' to be restored with £7m of lottery funds - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ornate turquoise tiles with orange plain ones creating stripes. Maroon edge tiles above
Stripes of decorative turquoise tiles with plain orange in between
For #TilesOnTuesday some tenement tiles in a wally close in Hyndland in Glasgow’s West end.
Grey pavement repaired with a strip of mosaic tiling of multiple colours
Grey pavement with triangular repair of different mosaic tiles
There were others!
Grey pavement with colourful mosaic repair using blue, white, black and orange tiles
Love this unusual pavement repair in Dijon
#MosaicOnMonday
Roman mosaic of a fish within a black circle of tiles
For #MosaicOnMonday a beautiful fish mosaic from the fabulous Roman museum in Lyon, France
Square church tower with ruined church. Gravestones in foreground and grass covered with snow
Muthill Old Parish Church in the snow today under grey skies.
12th century tower of similar design to Dunblane cathedral tower (altered later) and St Serfs in Dunning
Great photo. Love the big gasoliers.
Also note the ‘lifting windows’ like sash windows which open allowing the shop to be more like a market stall. Common in butchers and fishmongers until 1930s.
Britney is still probably the hardest rescue I've ever had to do.
To see her back with us and to have brought Sam along to work with us is still hard to believe.
May have had a little tear myself watching this if I am honest!
🚂 Joy on the Southbank, misery in the Square Mile. Here’s what the City of London’s much vaunted ‘retrofit-first’ policy looks like in reality, as planning permission was granted this week for the £1.2 billion demolition of Liverpool Street Station.
🧵 Scroll down for 8 damning before / after views
Very nice tube lined tiles
Painting featuring a view to a house with red tiled roof with a garden of trees in front
French painter Suzanne Valadon, The Sacred Heart from the garden of the Rue Cortot, 1920 #WomensArt
Gorgeous painting.
After 4 years I genuinely think this is the hardest but best rescue we have ever done.
You'll see why I think the people I work with are heroes in this. A truly remarkable story. Grab a coffee or a beer and watch it. Trust me you won't regret it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTa...
'Kirkwall Fair.' (1888) Although Arthur Melville was not regarded as one of the Glasgow Boys, he was seen by them to be a kindred spirit. A year after painting this work on Orkney, he left Edinburgh and settled in London, although he often returned to Scotland to paint.
It is good to see town centres are still on the agenda but I feel we have been having these conversations for such a long time! A real shift is required but as you say, such good work going on across the country but it’s a tough gig for these organisations trying make positive changes.
The beautiful galley goes up in flames following the torchlit procession #uphellyaa
