Late 1980s, Prince Charles sought disgraced paedophile Jimmy Savile's counsel on matters of public relations during a tumultuous period for the royal family. In one handwritten note, he called Savile "the bloke who knows what's going on"....
Difficult as a dry stone sheep pen symbolises the sheep not the people?.
Where eagles dare. The FED Building, USA 1936. The German Exhibition Building, Paris 1937.
LGBT memorial lifts idea from The Bottle of Notes (1993) by Claes Oldenburg but here lettering used as a bit of crumpled paper. Rubbish?
Photograph of the artist Carton Moore-Park (1876-1956 Born Stewarton, Ayrshire - Died New York) in his chelsea studio around 1898.
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An ENORMOUS Ukrainian flag is unfurled at protest in Alaska.
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Looks like it is PURUSING not PURSUING peace?
Trump is in Scotlamd and tonight watching BBC and the film "Avengers: Infinity War" part of which was filmed in Edinburgh. Later Trump dreams he is in the movie and a Master of the Universe but they don't tend to be a fat bully sociopath with a comb-over.
It “Caught the English spirit in all its ambiguity and whimsey”
Lion and the Unicorn Pavilion at Festival of Britain, 1951 typically ignored the fact that the Unicorn is the symbol of Scotland - along with any mention of our country anywhere in the exhibition!
Company advertising material from the 1930s for furniture designed and made by Morris and Company of Glasgow
In 1891 Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle became the artist's first painting to enter a public collection when it was purchased, at the insistence of the Glasgow Boys, by the City of Glasgow.
Sean "Diddy Man" Combs has been found guilty of prostitution charges but cleared by a jury of sex trafficking and racketeering, at the conclusion of his New York City criminal trial.
Two Scottish postcards designed by Crackerjack, c1914
Avro Part after Robert Burns...
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BBC Saying number 5
"Fill my can once, shame on you; fill my can twice, shame on me”.
Bob Vylan on YoutTube. UK government condemned it but I, friends and family agree with much of it.
According to a United Nations Special Committee, Amnesty International, and other experts such as academics and lawyers, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza against the Palestinians.
Starmer stinks!
"Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the Ghent Altarpiece, by Jan van Eyck was one of the most notable works found in the Altausse mine by the Monument Men at the end of WWII
Illustrations to "Polish Fairy Tales" of 1920 by Cecile Walton (1891 – 1956) Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor.
China’s Wuhan's Optics Valley Light Rail - a suspended monorail in 2025.
A century earlier - the Bennie Railplane was a form of rail transport invented by George Bennie. Built near Glasgow in 1929.
Large murals from auditorium of the lost Rutherglen Repertory Theatre. One by Irene Bruges on life in the theatre and the other by Thomas H. Sharks showing the historic industrial and cultural story of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen. Both c1948.
Jim Prime, keyboardist to Scottish band Deacon Blue, has died.
Thank you for the music.
From the royal court, to humble rural communities, Robin Hood's popularity in medieval Scotland was huge. Earliest references to the outlaw are found in 15thc chronicles but only the Asloan Manuscript (1515) references Robin Hood and a May parade in Edinburgh for all the burgh's male inhabitants!
Arnold Bronckhorst, or Bronckorst (fl. 1565–1583) was a Flemish or Dutch painter who was court painter to Mary I and James VI of Scotland.
My sign at the Swallow Theatre, Whithorn – the smallest professional theatre in Scotland. Just booked for another 4 forthcoming wonderful productions!
Wild griffins with flaming torches!
William Miles Johnston (1898-1974) Kirkcudbright based animal and bird artist, a Life Fellow of the Edinburgh Zoological Society. After WWI assisted Robert Lorimer on the Scottish War Memorial in Edinburgh. Now known for his pottery, which he sold under the “Zoo” brand.
Ayr Town Hall, built in the Neoclassical Renaissance style in 1828. Clock tower and stone steeple 226ft high. Architect Thomas Hamilton (1784 – 1858).
