Love this little mosaic logo at the entrance to a cafe at 14 Minard Road on the Southside of Glasgow. I've got no idea how long it's been there, but it's got a nice 1930s style feel to it. Anyone got any ideas what it relates to?
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A threshold mosaic at the entrance to the Corona Bar on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. The symbol in the middle is a play on the local place name Crossmyloof.
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This is quite a contrast to how we expect business owners to act today.
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What I presume is a surviving part of the old Crossmyloof Bakery behind the Camphill Gate tenements on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow.
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Well no big storm. It rained for a bit and was blustery, but it was nothing special. There were even sunny spells! We went for a walk round #Shawlands, #Crossmyloof and #Newlands in #Glasgow and not a bin was out of place. No big deal thankfully
Loof or Luif is an old Scots word for palm, and the name is said to have originated with a local fortune-teller who offered to tell Mary Queen of Scots her fate at the upcoming Battle of Langside in 1568, as long as she crossed her loof (or palm) with silver.
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This story seems to have then inspired the architects Clarke and Bell to include the symbol of a palm with a cross on it (or in other words a crossed palm) on their design for the 1912 Corona Bar.
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Decorative detail over an entrance to the Corona Bar on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. The symbol in the middle is a play on the local place name Crossmyloof.
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Photo of ten people including bride and groom in wedding clothes, and family members including a young child, in The Marlborough ballroom Shawlands with carved wooden wall panels and hanging curtains behind them. The bride and bridesmaids are holding flower bouquets. Photo left to right back standing top: Alexander Mitchell (father in law), Alexander Mitchell (groom), Jessie Graham (bride), unknown (best man), George Graham (father. Front: Daisy Graham (sister), Agnes Mitchell (mother-in-law), unknown (pageboy), Jessie Graham (mother), Marion Graham (sister). Can you help us identify the unknown best man and pageboy? Please see the blog post link for more details.
Photo taken in 1929 of bride Daisy Graham and groom William Milne with their bridesmaid Marion Graham, Alastair MacIntyre best man, and child Jessie Campbell Mitchell born 1926 (the daughter of the couple in the 1925 wedding photo) in The Marlborough ballroom Shawlands with carved wooden wall panelling and curtains behind them. Everyone in this photo has been identified, it's the previous and next one where we need suggestions and help from the community.
Photo of a 'Scout dance' 18th April 1947, featuring 40 women and men aged circa twenties to forties/fifties dressed up for a night of dancing in 1947 in what appears to be The Marlborough ballroom Shawlands with a window and carved wooden wall panelling behind. In the centre front row is a minister from an unknown church. Photographed by Ellbee Studios in Govan, copyright of Roger Gann whose mother Elizabeth Mitchell Dunlop is 8th from the right on the back row with a pin / brooch on her jacket. Can you help identify any of the 39 other people? Please see the linked blog post for more information and potential leads.
Stamp on the back of the 1947 photograph dating it to 18th April 1947 and bearing the name of the photographers 'Ellbee Studios 633 Govan Road'. This address in Govan no longer exists due to redevelopment of the area and we can only find one other reference to Ellbee Studios online. Please see the linked blog post for more information, and let us know if you have any potential leads regarding other photos taken by Ellbee Studios or any other info at all about the business.
🧵 With The Marlborough in #Shawlands reopening this weekend, we've been sent photos from 1925, 1929 & 1947 in what appears to be the same interior spot ~ can you help identify & name the unidentified people..? #Glasgow #Crossmyloof #ArtDecoSouthsideAlive 📷🧐🕵️ Please share♻️ sghet.com/project/the-...
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