Lost Glasgow
@lostglasgow.bsky.social
Trying to make sense of my surroundings, and myself, in an ever-changing city. Dreamer and imagineer.
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
'Take me to your leader...'
Sci-fi film star robot, 'Tobor The Great', met Lord Provost Thomas Kerr, at the City Chambers, in June 1954, to promote the eponymous movie, which was screening at the city’s Green’s Playhouse and Bedford Cinemas.
Pic: Newsquest
Sci-fi film star robot, 'Tobor The Great', met Lord Provost Thomas Kerr, at the City Chambers, in June 1954, to promote the eponymous movie, which was screening at the city’s Green’s Playhouse and Bedford Cinemas.
Pic: Newsquest
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
'Take me to your leader...'
Sci-fi film star robot, 'Tobor The Great', met Lord Provost Thomas Kerr, at the City Chambers, in June 1954, to promote the eponymous movie, which was screening at the city’s Green’s Playhouse and Bedford Cinemas.
Pic: Newsquest
Sci-fi film star robot, 'Tobor The Great', met Lord Provost Thomas Kerr, at the City Chambers, in June 1954, to promote the eponymous movie, which was screening at the city’s Green’s Playhouse and Bedford Cinemas.
Pic: Newsquest
Trudging through the snow - George Square, #OTD in 1958.
While Victoria and Albert remain, the statue of David Livingstone has long since legged it up to Cathedral Square.
Looks like that bloke in the bunnet had a pithy comment for the snapper.
Pic: Newsquest
While Victoria and Albert remain, the statue of David Livingstone has long since legged it up to Cathedral Square.
Looks like that bloke in the bunnet had a pithy comment for the snapper.
Pic: Newsquest
February 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Trudging through the snow - George Square, #OTD in 1958.
While Victoria and Albert remain, the statue of David Livingstone has long since legged it up to Cathedral Square.
Looks like that bloke in the bunnet had a pithy comment for the snapper.
Pic: Newsquest
While Victoria and Albert remain, the statue of David Livingstone has long since legged it up to Cathedral Square.
Looks like that bloke in the bunnet had a pithy comment for the snapper.
Pic: Newsquest
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They’re on site cutting down the Muirhead Oaks for the AI data centre that’s been all over the news today and I swear it’s going to become my villain origin story
January 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM
They’re on site cutting down the Muirhead Oaks for the AI data centre that’s been all over the news today and I swear it’s going to become my villain origin story
Mud, mud, glorious mud...
This section of McCulloch's View of Glasgow in 1853 looks almost empty, but it gives us a glimpse of some of the least glamorous yet most essential vessels ever to use the river: the mud punts of the Clyde Navigation Trust.
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February 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Mud, mud, glorious mud...
I love it when a mystery is resolved.
Three years ago, I took a chance, and stuck in a low bid in on a 'water damaged' first folio edition of local lad Muirhead Bone's 'Glasgow: Fifty Drawings', of 1911.
Got it at a very reasonable price, from an antiquarian dealer in Brighton.
Three years ago, I took a chance, and stuck in a low bid in on a 'water damaged' first folio edition of local lad Muirhead Bone's 'Glasgow: Fifty Drawings', of 1911.
Got it at a very reasonable price, from an antiquarian dealer in Brighton.
February 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I love it when a mystery is resolved.
Three years ago, I took a chance, and stuck in a low bid in on a 'water damaged' first folio edition of local lad Muirhead Bone's 'Glasgow: Fifty Drawings', of 1911.
Got it at a very reasonable price, from an antiquarian dealer in Brighton.
Three years ago, I took a chance, and stuck in a low bid in on a 'water damaged' first folio edition of local lad Muirhead Bone's 'Glasgow: Fifty Drawings', of 1911.
Got it at a very reasonable price, from an antiquarian dealer in Brighton.
A top night of Cramps-related nonsense at the #luxlives hoolie.
Chapeau doff, as usual, to Colin D'uff and crew for gathering the clans.
These guys ripped it tonight - their Rockabilly version of Bella Lugosi's Dead being an unexpected hight point.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Sx...
Chapeau doff, as usual, to Colin D'uff and crew for gathering the clans.
These guys ripped it tonight - their Rockabilly version of Bella Lugosi's Dead being an unexpected hight point.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Sx...
February 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
A top night of Cramps-related nonsense at the #luxlives hoolie.
Chapeau doff, as usual, to Colin D'uff and crew for gathering the clans.
These guys ripped it tonight - their Rockabilly version of Bella Lugosi's Dead being an unexpected hight point.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Sx...
Chapeau doff, as usual, to Colin D'uff and crew for gathering the clans.
These guys ripped it tonight - their Rockabilly version of Bella Lugosi's Dead being an unexpected hight point.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Sx...
There's something brewing in Maryhill, a new exhibition about the historic Cafe D'Jaconelli and our Scots/Italian pals.
If you're visiting the Burgh Halls, take time out to visit Jaconelli's - I can vouch for the quality of their coffees, and their 'big breakfast' is to die for...
If you're visiting the Burgh Halls, take time out to visit Jaconelli's - I can vouch for the quality of their coffees, and their 'big breakfast' is to die for...
February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
There's something brewing in Maryhill, a new exhibition about the historic Cafe D'Jaconelli and our Scots/Italian pals.
If you're visiting the Burgh Halls, take time out to visit Jaconelli's - I can vouch for the quality of their coffees, and their 'big breakfast' is to die for...
If you're visiting the Burgh Halls, take time out to visit Jaconelli's - I can vouch for the quality of their coffees, and their 'big breakfast' is to die for...
I don't think I've ever seen a more vivacious double portrait - you are there with them.
Madame Georges Hugo and her son, Jean, by Italian artist Giovanni Boldini, 1898.
Madame Georges Hugo and her son, Jean, by Italian artist Giovanni Boldini, 1898.
February 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a more vivacious double portrait - you are there with them.
Madame Georges Hugo and her son, Jean, by Italian artist Giovanni Boldini, 1898.
Madame Georges Hugo and her son, Jean, by Italian artist Giovanni Boldini, 1898.
Before SAHB, Alex Harvey was playing in the house band for the hippie musical, Hair.
Here he is on guitar, with a young Paul Nicholas and Elaine Paige, outside the Shaftesbury Theatre, with, appropriately, the St Mungo's homeless charity in the background.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5n...
Here he is on guitar, with a young Paul Nicholas and Elaine Paige, outside the Shaftesbury Theatre, with, appropriately, the St Mungo's homeless charity in the background.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5n...
Alex Harvey with - maybe - the cast of 'Hair'
YouTube video by MoriduraAlt
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February 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Before SAHB, Alex Harvey was playing in the house band for the hippie musical, Hair.
Here he is on guitar, with a young Paul Nicholas and Elaine Paige, outside the Shaftesbury Theatre, with, appropriately, the St Mungo's homeless charity in the background.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5n...
Here he is on guitar, with a young Paul Nicholas and Elaine Paige, outside the Shaftesbury Theatre, with, appropriately, the St Mungo's homeless charity in the background.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5n...
Born #OTD in 1935, the 'sensational' Alex Harvey.
A beautiful outtake from Ken McGregor's 'Jock 'n' Roll' doc, where Alex lays down the music law to BA Robertson.
'A Fender Telecaster is a better invention than the AK47 - it has more penetration.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP-V...
A beautiful outtake from Ken McGregor's 'Jock 'n' Roll' doc, where Alex lays down the music law to BA Robertson.
'A Fender Telecaster is a better invention than the AK47 - it has more penetration.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP-V...
Alex Harvey Obituary
YouTube video by Ken MacGregor
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February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Born #OTD in 1935, the 'sensational' Alex Harvey.
A beautiful outtake from Ken McGregor's 'Jock 'n' Roll' doc, where Alex lays down the music law to BA Robertson.
'A Fender Telecaster is a better invention than the AK47 - it has more penetration.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP-V...
A beautiful outtake from Ken McGregor's 'Jock 'n' Roll' doc, where Alex lays down the music law to BA Robertson.
'A Fender Telecaster is a better invention than the AK47 - it has more penetration.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP-V...
Peace Frog
YouTube video by The Doors - Topic
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February 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Call the Police
YouTube video by Oblivians - Topic
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February 5, 2026 at 1:56 AM
The Chocolate Watchband - Baby Blue
YouTube video by heavenlyblueorange
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February 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Not many papers get two films - The Post, and All The President's Men - sad for the staff and readers of #WashingtonPost Sad for good journalism.
Oddly enough, both films at the same black heart of US government.
What do we get, Melania.
#jeffbezos yer an arse, and will be remembered as such.
Oddly enough, both films at the same black heart of US government.
What do we get, Melania.
#jeffbezos yer an arse, and will be remembered as such.
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Not many papers get two films - The Post, and All The President's Men - sad for the staff and readers of #WashingtonPost Sad for good journalism.
Oddly enough, both films at the same black heart of US government.
What do we get, Melania.
#jeffbezos yer an arse, and will be remembered as such.
Oddly enough, both films at the same black heart of US government.
What do we get, Melania.
#jeffbezos yer an arse, and will be remembered as such.
With every news story a fresh nightmare, I watched #DiggingForBritain, and the the beautiful burial of the Iron Age dog nearly made me greet. The fact it had been loved and cared for - even recovering from a serious leg break - gives me hope.
What's the Iron Age for 'Who's a good boy?'
What's the Iron Age for 'Who's a good boy?'
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
With every news story a fresh nightmare, I watched #DiggingForBritain, and the the beautiful burial of the Iron Age dog nearly made me greet. The fact it had been loved and cared for - even recovering from a serious leg break - gives me hope.
What's the Iron Age for 'Who's a good boy?'
What's the Iron Age for 'Who's a good boy?'
Boom and bust on Queen Street - old bank Brutalised this corner.
Pic/text: The City That Disappeared: Glasgow's Demolished Architecture by Frank Worsdall (1981)
Pic/text: The City That Disappeared: Glasgow's Demolished Architecture by Frank Worsdall (1981)
February 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Boom and bust on Queen Street - old bank Brutalised this corner.
Pic/text: The City That Disappeared: Glasgow's Demolished Architecture by Frank Worsdall (1981)
Pic/text: The City That Disappeared: Glasgow's Demolished Architecture by Frank Worsdall (1981)
I'll miss our occasional jousts.
I've never met a better-read man. He once snorted a fine dram down his tweed jaisket at one of my puns, and bought us both another.
Pretty sure it was he who told me to read Alberto Moravia.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've never met a better-read man. He once snorted a fine dram down his tweed jaisket at one of my puns, and bought us both another.
Pretty sure it was he who told me to read Alberto Moravia.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Allan Massie obituary: Acclaimed novelist, critic and commentator
The writer lived in the Borders and excelled in historical novels which merged the personal and political.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM
I'll miss our occasional jousts.
I've never met a better-read man. He once snorted a fine dram down his tweed jaisket at one of my puns, and bought us both another.
Pretty sure it was he who told me to read Alberto Moravia.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've never met a better-read man. He once snorted a fine dram down his tweed jaisket at one of my puns, and bought us both another.
Pretty sure it was he who told me to read Alberto Moravia.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
