Mother Glasgow and Old Father Clyde
Somerset House, London

Who knows what Glasgow holds in her hands

(Keystone image by Bob Speel)

Now (partly) under the M8

The impressive stepping basins of the Blackhill Locks on the Monkland Canal, Glasgow. The locks are picked put in light blue with the old Incline highlighted in dark blue. The thin blue line is the course of Molendinar Burn

I took the liberty of commemorating the event by giving giving the unnamed lane on the old property line the name of 'Thorndyke Lane', in reference to the lands of Thorn and the demolished dyke.

Harvey be damned!

Thought for a minute this door I spotted in Vienna was from Mackintosh's Willow Tea Rooms interior but it was just the champagne monocle playing tricks on me 🧐

Thanks Lorraine. The original layout of the necropolis evolved and expanded in it's firat 50 years and wasn't originally conceived in the form it currently takes. There were feuing plans for tenements to be built on the eastern summit and into the Ladywell Quarry. Does that change anything for you?

I'm sure dire at the time but what a charming wee clutch of buildings that would be today. Check the filled in shallow arched arcade on the ground floor of the tenement

That's a great article, also extolls the allegorical figures of Industry, Science, Art and Agriculture by Guthrie, Henry, Lavery and Walton in the main dome. Seems unfathomable that they'd have just binned them, you'd think hese details had some value to someone afterward...

Different feel to this, reminds me of starting work in the 90s but in offices from the 70s, got that clunky-buttoned mechanical tech feel to it, like it's supported by a whole building endlessly filling and processing paper. Can... can I smoke?

Glasgow Coat of Arms detail on James Sellars 1888 Exhibition temporary main hall that I don't think has been remarked upon since it the structure was taken down. Here's to James, delighting me all these years on, and to Glasgow on your 850th anniversary

"Where's the waen? He's fine, he's just in the communal lavvy jawbox hingin oot the windae..."

Frightening early 1900s scene shows a brick turnpike stair tower added to the rear of a pre-1860s tenement to accomodate communal toilets, each with externally mounted jawbox sink. Child for scale 🤪