eydmann
@eydmann.bsky.social
Scholar, collector, maker & curator of things vernacular, mainly Scottish and Irish. GSA, OU, PhD, Hon. Fellow, University of Edinburgh ~
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http://rareTunes.org ~ Whistlebinkie
Take care with hand coloured photographs and postcards - many in Scotland are greatly misleading.
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Take care with hand coloured photographs and postcards - many in Scotland are greatly misleading.
Any thoughts on the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza as a model for Linlithgow Palace as originally built (or vice versa) and as an example of what it could be?
October 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Any thoughts on the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza as a model for Linlithgow Palace as originally built (or vice versa) and as an example of what it could be?
That (or one in the series) is the one I saw in an Edinburgh charity book shop and mentioned to you previously, at the Wighton. I'll try to check out the shop on the off chance it is still there - don't there was much demand for it!
June 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
That (or one in the series) is the one I saw in an Edinburgh charity book shop and mentioned to you previously, at the Wighton. I'll try to check out the shop on the off chance it is still there - don't there was much demand for it!
"Councillor Sean Ferguson spoke up during the meeting about the rebuild of the Mackintosh building. He said: "What context are we to consider this in? In no other situation would we be considering the impact on a burnt-out ruin of a building."
...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?
...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?
June 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Councillor Sean Ferguson spoke up during the meeting about the rebuild of the Mackintosh building. He said: "What context are we to consider this in? In no other situation would we be considering the impact on a burnt-out ruin of a building."
...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?
...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?
Tim, these are fragments from an unfinished research project of mine provisionally titled "Song and Verse of the Scottish Stone Trades". Hopefully I'll be in a position to share the full thing in due course.
May 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Tim, these are fragments from an unfinished research project of mine provisionally titled "Song and Verse of the Scottish Stone Trades". Hopefully I'll be in a position to share the full thing in due course.
And, I can't look at that image without thinking of Tom Scott's lines from Brand the Builder, also on characters from St Andrews:
...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...
The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...
...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...
The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...
May 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
And, I can't look at that image without thinking of Tom Scott's lines from Brand the Builder, also on characters from St Andrews:
...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...
The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...
...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...
The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...
Tim
It is superb and great the subjects are named.
The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...
My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.
Stuart
It is superb and great the subjects are named.
The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...
My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.
Stuart
Jamie Spence and Bo'sun Tamson.
Portrait of two men in work clothes outside house, one seated on barrel, with hammer, trowel, hod, other leaning on ladder.
collections.st-andrews.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Tim
It is superb and great the subjects are named.
The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...
My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.
Stuart
It is superb and great the subjects are named.
The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...
My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.
Stuart
This is my fave pic of Scottish lime workers. St Andrews.
May 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is my fave pic of Scottish lime workers. St Andrews.
This is very good news!
May 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
This is very good news!
Is this, by any chance, linked to the 1946/7 reports of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland that recommended the preparation of a new Scottish song collection under the auspices of the Saltire Society? See my paper in Ethnomusicology Ireland:
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May 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Is this, by any chance, linked to the 1946/7 reports of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland that recommended the preparation of a new Scottish song collection under the auspices of the Saltire Society? See my paper in Ethnomusicology Ireland:
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By tradition, someone normally posts a snap of a bekilted Jack McConnell at this point..
April 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
By tradition, someone normally posts a snap of a bekilted Jack McConnell at this point..