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Anabel Marsh
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Retired librarian, traveller, and women's history enthusiast. Blogs at glasgowgallivanter.com She/her.
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Britain's democracy is in crisis. Our First Past the Post voting system increasingly delivers results that have little to do with what the country wants.

This #DemocracyDay, I'm calling for a fair system where every vote counts.

It's time for Proportional Representation. #PRnow
Graphic of a hand posting a ballot into a box. Text says: On International Day of Democracy I’m calling for proportional representation. Make Votes Matter logo in top left corner.
September 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Suffragette window, Woodside Library, Glasgow #StainedGlassSunday
A window with portraits of two Scottish suffragettes - Helen Crawfurd, a white woman, and Jessie Soga, a woman of colour. Text includes slogans such as Votes for Women and Deeds not Words.
September 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Rules to live by! Corner of Great Western Rd and Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow. #SignsOnSaturday
Sign says: Public Service Notice. Always try to be yourself, unless you’re a dick, in which case, try being someone better.
August 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Summer topper with sandcastle and sea creatures. North Gardner Street, Glasgow. #PostboxSaturday
Edwardian pillar box with a woollen topper showing a sandcastle surrounded by various sea creatures. Close up of the topper showing the sea creatures more clearly. There are lobsters, octopuses, jellyfish and more.
July 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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These places are far, far away from Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Someone is having a laugh. #FingerpostFriday
A green fingerpost with directions to Kessel, Tatooine, Endor and Dagobah.
May 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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#SignsOnSunday They take good care of their birds on Jersey.
Colourful sign with several illustrated ducks on a country lane: Drive carefully, ducks crossing. Yellow diamond shaped sign with a black outline of a goose. Caution - goose crossing
May 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Victorian pillar box in St Peter Port in Guernsey - one of the oldest left in use. #PostboxSaturday
Victorian pillar box in St Peter Port, Guernsey. Plaque on box reads: VICTORIAN PILLAR BOX THE BRITISH POST OFFICE INSTALLED ITS EARLIEST ROADSIDE POSTING BOXES IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS IN 1852/3, THIS BOX IS THE OLDEST SURVIVOR STILL IN DAILY USE IN THE BRITISH ISLES. IT HAS BEEN RESTORED TO WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE ORIGINAL LIVERY OF THAT ERA. Close up of VR insignia.
May 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Cheerful Spring postbox topper in North Gardner Street, Glasgow. #PostboxSaturday
Red pillar box with crocheted topper which has green base surrounded by daffodils and topped with various creatures including a large black bird and a robin. Close up of the topper showing more detail including two birds’ nests with eggs and a rabbit. The black bird is in the centre giving us a very hard stare.
May 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Thoroughly enjoyed Story Cafe @womenslibrary.bsky.social yesterday where Donna Moore aka @badsvillebroad.bsky.social launched her latest book with matching cake and a superb 1920s outfit!
Donna poses wearing a 1920s outfit - purple sequinned dress and matching accessories. A book shaped cake iced to look like the cover of Donna’s book The Devil’s Draper.
May 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Two examples from our recent visit to the Channel Islands for #PostboxSaturday. Red at Bonne Nuit Bay in Jersey, blue at Jerbourg Point in Guernsey.
Red post box set into a stone pillar, trees and houses behind it. Blue pillar box with shrubs and a hotel behind it.
April 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Moving service this morning @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social to rededicate a WW1 war memorial from the long demolished St George’s Church which is now to be housed in the Halls. Well done to all involved.
A piper leading out the colours (regimental flags) at the end of the service. The war memorial listing 78 of the Maryhill men who were killed in the First World War. It is mounted on a wooden plinth and four wreaths, laid during the ceremony, lie at its feet.
April 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Sark’s golden box for #PostboxSaturday. In honour of Carl Hester, part of GB’s gold medal winning dressage team
in the 2012 Olympics, it currently sports a decorative Easter topper.
A golden pillar box topped with crocheted chickens. A close up of the crocheted post box topper with chickens and daffodils. A close up of the postbox’s Collection Times notice also detailing the reason for its golden colour - to honour Carl Hester’s Olympic medal.
April 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Buzzing after today’s 132nd birthday celebrations for Jessie Stephen @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social A women’s history walk followed by cake, what could be better? The exhibition (Jessie Stephen: Maryhill’s Suffragette) runs till 13th June.
Three women stand behind a cake smiling. Aurora from Maryhill Halls is wearing green, I am wearing white, and Sheana (Jessie Stephen’s great-niece) is wearing purple, making up (entirely unplanned) the Suffragette colours. Large cake with white icing edged with green and purple. In the middle the words Happy Birthday Jessie are piped in dark icing.
April 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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For this #InternationalWomensDay edition of #PostboxSaturday please enjoy an Edwardian box in Kirklee, Glasgow. Jessie Stephen, Suffragette, worked as a servant nearby and it’s almost certainly a box she attacked with acid as depicted on the Great Tapestry of Scotland.
An Edwardian pillar box on a street corner, trees in the background. I am standing next to it holding leaflets about the Suffragettes. The Suffargette panel of the Great Tapestry of Scotland has three main figures plus a series of small boxes at the top. One of these has a pillar box with the name Jessie Stephen embroidered underneath.
March 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Happy 250th #PostboxSaturday! I’m an intermittent contributor and don’t have anything new this week so I’m reposting my greatest hit from the other place. Ok, only hit. It’s the VR box in Professors’ Square at Glasgow University.
A Victorian pillar box in front of an old-fashioned lamp post on a cobbled surface with the Principal’s Lodging (large Victorian house) behind.
February 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Surely some mistake?
A set of shelves in a book shop headed “Store highlights”. The books are about Keir Starmer, Tony Blair and Boris Johnson
February 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#PostboxSaturday - Uig ferry terminal (Skye) last September. Almost as cold then as it is now! Well, not quite …
January 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM