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Coat wearing weather in Glasgow today.
@whitbygothic.bsky.social

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+++ Wishing a most wonderful birthday, to Robert James Smith of The Cure, who was born on this day, the 21st of April 1959, in Blackpool, Lancashire. +++

#robertsmith #thecure #postpunk #newwave #icon #altrock #goth #OTD #blackpool #lancashire #gothcore #gothic #alt

No, not yet. I'm supposed to write a blurb to send them... I'll go do it now 🫣
It will be 6.30pm as I work weekdays

Smug working on a new mural for Glasgow

I enjoyed watching Smug working on this newest mural on Saturday morning just off the High Street in #Glasgow

I'm doing a talk on this very subject at Eastwood House on 29th October for Enjoy East Ren (libraries)

a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat . ALT: a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat .

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House for an Art Lover, GSofA Mack building and Scotland St School glass panels from restaurant on Paisley Rd, Glasgow. Photo (c) Lorraine Murray 2026

Some #Mackintosh buildings depicted in these lovely glass panels in the old Harry Ramsden's restaurant building on Paisley Rd at Springfield Quay in Glasgow.
House for an Art Lover, GSofA Mack building and Scotland St School.

Why 'Greek' Thomson? And when was he described as such?

Around 1870, so during his lifetime, to distinguish him from other Architects named Thomson.
Have a read of this great article by Dominic D'Angelo from the Alexander Thomson Society which explains more -
"Why 'Greek' Thomson?" share.google/yc3xbsmTMifT...

The reply = you're from Edinburgh vs Glasgow

It definitely influenced his work too. He understood the connection between health and wellbeing with fresh air and access to natural life which can be seen in the pragmatism of his architectural designs and details.

Screenshot of blog post about Alexander Thomson, Glasgow Architect

Today is the anniversary of Alexander "Greek" Thomson who was born #otd 9th April 1817 in Balfron.
Read more about him in my blog post here - archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/2024/04/09/r...

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

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The entrance was for gentlemen to access the smoking and billiard rooms above the other tearooms. Catherine Cranston made good use of spaces designed for individual gendered use at a time where it was appealing for customers

"Remembering Thomson" by Lorraine Murray

Alexander "Greek" Thomson, the wonderful #Glaswegian Architect, died #otd (22 March 1875)
He influenced much of the built environment in the West of Scotland.
Read more about him and his masterpiece "Holmwood" in Cathcart here:
archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/2024/04/09/r...

Photo of Artist Peter Brown at the corner of Drury Street and Renfield Street Glasgow. (c) Lorraine Murray, 12 March 2026

Artist Peter Brown chatting to bystanders at the corner of Drury St and Renfield St with the partial remains of the Gordon St façade of Union Corner as his subject matter.
Almost a week on from the devastating Union Street #fire adjacent to Central Station, demolition has now begun in #Glasgow.

Details on talk from Lorraine Murray's talk "All that remains: Tales from the Ramshorn Kirkyard" https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-remains-tales-from-the-ramshorn-kirkyard-tickets-1984707738272

Details on talk from Lorraine Murray's talk "All that remains: Tales from the Ramshorn Kirkyard" https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-remains-tales-from-the-ramshorn-kirkyard-tickets-1984707738272

🚨 Attn #Glasgow folks ⚠️
I have developed a new #history #talk for the Alexander Thomson Society.
"All that Remains: Tales from the Ramshorn Kirkyard" on Sat 25 Apr, 1pm, Mitchell Library, free entry.
Booking 👇

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-r...

#Taphophile
#Graveyard
#MementoMori
#DeathHistory

Eventbrite info about Lorraine Murray's talk https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-remains-tales-from-the-ramshorn-kirkyard-tickets-1984707738272

Further info from Eventbrite on Lorraine Murray's talk. Follow the blog to stay up to date when a new talk is added https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/history-talks/

I have developed a new #history talk for the Thomson Society about the Ramshorn Kirk in #Glasgow
Come along to "All that Remains: Tales from the Ramshorn Kirkyard" on Sat 25 Apr, 1pm, Mitchell Library, free entry.
#MementoMori #Graveyards #Taphophile #Empire

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-r...

Promo for talk https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-on-the-patrons-of-mackintosh-with-lorraine-murray-tickets-1970289804845

Description of Patrons of Mackintosh talk by Lorraine Murray

⚠️ Attn #Glasgow folks! 🚨
Come along to my new talk focusing on the Patrons of Charles Rennie #Mackintosh - Catherine Cranston, Walter Blackie and William Davidson. Next Sunday #IWD 8 March 2026 @1pm at Mackintosh Tearooms on Sauchiehall Street, £8 booking info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-on-...

#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.

The Old Toll House on the Southside of Glasgow, with Pollokshaws Road in the distance.

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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowhistory #pollokshaws

A metal sculpture of a tree in a district all too lacking in trees, with a tall and moderately ugly office building behind. A traffic cone is perching in the branches, because of course it is.

The "Tree That Never Grew" on Bothwell Street, bearing the four emblems of the city: the bird, the bell, the fish, and the cone.

He went on to say there may be more than one skull amongst the divvied up bones in the 3 places, so maybe its best they all stay where they are 🤔

I was at a talk by Neil Baxter who sort of tried this when he organised the first Glasgow 'City of Love' festival in 2002/3. Apparently three places hold St Valentine's bones: Glasgow, Dublin and Terni in Italy.
Dublin didn't want to send their remains to Glasgow for a temp exhibition...

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

It's sad to hear reports that this mural of St Enoch and a young St Mungo on a tenement on High Street in Glasgow has been removed during work currently being carried out on the building. The mural was painted in 2018 by the street artist Smug.

#glasgow #mural #streetart #glasgowstreetart

BW photos of Heath Ledger and Michael Hutchence

#OtD 21 Jan 1974 postal workers began four-day strike at the Jersey City, NJ, bulk and foreign mail center, protesting an involuntary shift change. The wildcat was led by a group of young workers who identified themselves as "The Outlaws" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9379...

Poster for the Alexander Thomson Society Glasgow 850 lectures starting January 24th, 2026

For anyone in and around #Glasgow here are the next four Saturday afternoon talks at 1pm in the Mitchell Library Moir Dyer room for #Glasgow850 by The Alexander Thomson Society.
All events are free, just sign up at Eventbrite below.
www.eventbrite.com/o/10377821774