It's 'Worsdall Wednesday', and this week Frank's off up the shops, to visit the Pettigrew & Stephens department store in Sauchiehall Street - demolished for the Sauchiehall Street Centre - a bad deal in anyone's books!
The former Prince's Dock Auxillary Accumulator Tower opposite the old Govan Town Hall on Govan Road in Glasgow. Built in 1911, its design is based on a campanile, a free standing Italian bell tower.
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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #industrialarchitecture #glasgowhistory
A slightly belated podcast alert! Here’s me chatting to @2000ad.bsky.social's @molcher.bsky.social about comics, crime fiction, science fiction, historical fiction & some glam real-life stuff, such as selling Scotch pies at Dens Park football stadium way back when...
Congratulations, Grandad! Lovely looking page too...
A slightly belated shoutout to the new novel by Doghouse Reilly (actually @johntomlinson24.bsky.social & Glenn Dakin), currently being serialized on Substack. One advantage to being late to the party – Chapter 2 is already available...
Wonder how much Tunnock's Tea Cakes paid to sponsor the Artemis splashdown?
Nae fears there, James!
One small clarification: In the interview, I get mixed up & say Steve Macmanus had stepped back in as interim editor of 2000AD. He was actually group editor. The original commissioning editor – or Tharg, for those in the know – of Nikolai Dante was, of course, @johntomlinson24.bsky.social.
A slightly belated podcast alert! Here’s me chatting to @2000ad.bsky.social's @molcher.bsky.social about comics, crime fiction, science fiction, historical fiction & some glam real-life stuff, such as selling Scotch pies at Dens Park football stadium way back when...
Leaping to the top of the reading pile this weekend is The Violent Hour, latest in the Edinburgh-set Inspector Tony MacLean series by @sirbenfro.bsky.social. Out July 6th – be there or be square! Cheers to @wildfirebooks.bsky.social for the advance copy.
The view north from Stow College in Glasgow, January 1962.
The remains of what I think is part of the old Meadowside Ferry port. The Meadowside Ferry was one of around ten different ferry routes which used to criss-cross the Clyde in Glasgow.
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#glasgow #glasgowhistory #govan #partick #clyde
💥COVER REVEAL💥
THE HIGH ISLAND by Lin Anderson
Book 1 in a new spin-off ORCADIA MYSTERIES SERIES featuring Orkney-based DI Erling Flett.
Having appeared in Books 9, 11, 16, & 19 of the RHONA MACLEOD SERIES, Erling now has his own Series
More info: https://bit.ly/TheHighIslandCoverReveal
Lovely stuff, Rachel – captures him perfectly.
Today, for Worsdall Wednesday, Frank’s taking us for elevenses – a cuppa and wee scone – at Kate Cranston’s Crown Lunch and Tea Rooms, on Argyle Street.
Architect David Barclay's 1899 watercolour of the block in its heyday is a joy.
Born 212 years ago yesterday, John Thomas Rochead was an architect who, while not as prominent in the public consciousness of Glasgow as some, left an indelible mark on the city and across Scotland.
📷 Past Glasgow
#Glasgow
Looking down into Union Street, Glasgow, in 1947. To the right we can see Boots at ground floor level. Next to that is the famous Peacock's tea rooms, with Smart's furniture store in the centre of the image.
📷 Reach
#Glasgow
Aww, thanks, Louise. I usually reckon time moves twice as fast as I think it does, but in this case, it might be three times as fast...
Are you sure you haven’t you got those numbers backwards😉?
Always loved that splash page, one of @simonfraser.bsky.social's first pics of Nikolai, catching the character perfectly. I should also point out ex-Tharg @dvbishop.com edited the early years of the series, initially commissioned by @johntomlinson24.bsky.social.
30 years old next year, though😲?
Cover of 2000 AD Prog 1035 from 25th March 1997, introducing Russian rogue NIkolai Dante, painted by Simon Davis.
A page from the first episode of Nikolai Dante, illustrated by the series co-creator Simon Fraser.
#OTD 29 years ago future rogue Nikolai Dante first appeared in @2000AD Prog 1035. Created by @robbiemorrison.bsky.social and @simonfraser.bsky.social, the series ran for 15 years and became a classic of the comic. #TooCoolToKill Cover art for that first appearance painted by Simon Davis:
Congratulations, Will!
Kid-Zilla & the Space Race cover
Kid-Zilla & the Space Race spread
Jess Bradley and Will Potter
Delighted to announce a new young readers graphic novel, KID-ZILLA AND THE SPACE RACE, out via @arcturusbooks.bsky.social in November, continuing the adventures of characters created by the wonderful @jessbradley.bsky.social. Interior art by Ro Ledesma.
They mentioned the documentary “What Do Artists Do All Day” in this episode. Here it is 👇🏻
youtu.be/Uy6lSE0bTeA?...
Looking south down Buchanan St in 1975. The plants and shrubs of the street's early pedestrianisation are evident. Vehicle access was phased out in stages, starting in 1972, until what had been one of Glasgow's main traffic arteries was fully pedestrianised in 1978.
📷 Newsquest
Old and new Clyde crossings in Glasgow. On the left is the former southern entrance (known as the South Rotunda) to the Glasgow Harbour Tunnel, which opened in the 1890s and closed to vehicles in the 1940s and to pedestrians in 1980.
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#glasgow #architecture #theclyde #bridge #tunnel
Absolutely! It’s a great film and also a terrific record of London at that time.
RIP Len Deighton. "When you make a book, it's like making a hand grenade. It's a dull process but when you throw it the person at the other end gets the effect."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ditto. One of my favourite writers.
RIP Len Deighton, author and illustrator of LEN DEIGHTON’S ACTION COOK BOOK and other works