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I went out tonight aged 59, I return aged 60.
Technically, 21 plus VAT.
Free bus pass, baby; bring it on!
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Managed to find Gary Nisbet's piece on the guns.
I thought they would have gone for WWI, but seems they were in-situ till 1940.
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Hard to say.
If, like me, you have a soft spot for hard concrete, the recently opened Brutal Scotland exhibition @streetlevelphotoworks is a doozy. Nice, too, to bump into old muso mate, Ken 'Bluebells' McCluskey.
Pic: Dollan Baths, East Kilbride
No idea, although I do remember public sculpture buff Gary Nesbitt being very excited to find what was thought to be the only pic of the guns in-situ.
Seems it wasn't the only pic.
As I say, the trail went cold.
The Wee Papa Girl Rappers.
Although long thought to have been melted down for the war effort, incredibly, in 2017, one of the cannons was rediscovered in a private garden in Bearsden, after which the trail went cold again...
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Well, trawling the internet yesterday, I found this stereoscopic view of the guns, which is now with an Australian collector - and I think I might bid on it.
Zooming in to look to the top of Kelvingrove Park, you can spy the three captured Russian guns - two cannon and a mortar - from the Crimean War, which were removed from the foot of the flagpole in 1916 for the installation of the Lord Roberts statue.
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.
You're right.
It's getting so difficult to tell these days. I now seem to spend half my time deleting AI slop from the LG Group. And, as for the dicks who think it a good idea to colourise/animate my own old family pics - GTF!
Sitting with the Hume book, and I don't think it's 'colourised'.
In his intro, Prof Hume says it's a collection of his 'colour slides', and I don't think publisher, Richard Stenlake, would touch colourisation or AI.
Suspect it more likely that the colour slide was converted to B&W.
Happy #WorldBookDay mind you, every day is book day at Lost Glasgow Towers...
Pic: A book barrow, in Greendyke Street, c 1916 (Glasgow Museums).
Little and large...
The Titan crane at Fairfield's Govan yard stands sentinel over Elder Park in this 1930s postcard.
The crane, the largest on the Clyde, was built in 1911 by Sir William Arrol & Co, and could lift 280 tons.
It was demolished in 2007.
Not only a 'win', a Winalot!
I'll get my coat...
And in colour, courtesy of Chris Doak.
It's only recently that the wee triangle of vacant land, opposite Barrowland Park, has begun to be redeveloped - very slowly - for new housing.
Pic/text: The City That Disappeared: Glasgow's Demolished Architecture by Frank Worsdall (1981)
It's Wednesday, so we're back out with Frank Worsdall. Today, he's in the Gallowgate, having a look at the long-vanished block bordered by Molendinar Street and Spoutmouth.
In 1970, following a fire, the block was demolished.
My wee mum would have turned 100 today.
Here she is, in 1949, in Union Street, aged 23, all gussied up, with her own mum and dad, en-route to a family wedding.
Clever girl probably made her own dress, she was a wizard with her Singer.
'I'm gutted!'
Not been in yet, but have both those titles.
I'll pop in next time I'm at Street Level.
All change at Central...
It's 1902, we're looking east on the corner of Oswald, Argyle, and Hope Streets, and Glasgow Central Station is expanding.
Pic: Glasgow Libraries
Avoiding taxes...
Sculpted by my late mate, Tony Morrow - also the co-creator of the Lobbey Dosser statue.
It could be you...
Just been through and scored all the nominations for the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award, at this month's Glasgow International Comedy Festival. The fourth year in a row that I've been privileged to join the judging panel.
Good luck to all the runners and riders.
First the CCA, now Trongate 103.
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Needless to say, come 5.30pm, the Boys in Blue turned up, took customers’ names and addresses, and removed six large sacks of what they deemed to be 'obscene' items, then charged the shop’s co-owners with selling obscene goods.
Glasgow shoppers seemed less concerned, with the opening day customers' main complaint being that the prices were too high!