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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 18h

Glasgow in the No 1 spot, again...

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The friendliest cities in the UK: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards

The friendliest corners of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – as voted for by you

www.cntraveller.com

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

For whom the (school) bell tolls...

The great bronze bell from the old school's clock tower now sits in the foyer of the current Beaton Road school.

Pic/text: The City That Disappeared: Glasgow's Demolished Architecture by Frank Worsdall (1981)

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Nacht...

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I Think Of You

YouTube video by Little Annie - Topic

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 2d

Strang goings on doon the watter...

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Bemusement as dozens of sex toys wash up on beach in Millport

Dozens of sex toys washed up on a beach in Millport.

www.largsandmillportnews.com

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 2d

A proper Clyde puffer...

A Tobacco Lord/Virginia Don relaxing with his pipe, on the cover of a booklet for the 1901 International Exhibition, by Glasgow tobacco merchants F & J Smith.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 2d

An old penny. Before decimalisation pounds, shilling, and pence were, L S D...

Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone else want to go and hear Charles Dickens do a reading tonight? Sure I've got a spare ticket, somewhere...

Pic: Advert in the Glasgow Sentinel, 1858

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 3d

Classic - went looking for it the other day.

After Gary Larson published the cartoon, he and Goodall became good friends.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 3d

"I will cut adrift - I will sit on pavements and drink coffee - I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim - this fine October." Virginia Woolf

Paris, 2017

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 4d

Word!

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 4d

Nacht!

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Ike & Tina Turner: Finger Poppin'

YouTube video by rfrom59

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 4d

My walk home; a beautiful moon with scudding, gun-metal clouds.

I hope the young team I bumped into will now remember what haughmagandie/babbity bowster means.

Some of them went pale, then blushed.

I'm here all week, try the fish...

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 4d

#OTD in 1883, Sir William Alexander Smith founded the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, in the Free College Church mission building, in Woodlands.

Here's a previous generation of Brigaders, in Kelvingrove Park.

Pic: Newsquest

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 5d

Nacht...

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Sammy Davis Jr - Mr. Bojangles (Live in Germany 1985)

YouTube video by SammyDavisJrVEVO

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 5d

Aff to my scratcher; this bugger i 80!

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The 'In' Crowd

YouTube video by Bryan Ferry - Topic

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 5d

Nacht!

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Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love

YouTube video by The Cramps - Topic

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 5d

How can this be 40 yeas ago.

I was so much older then, I'm younger than that no

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 5d

#OTD in 1936.

A young Vidal Sassoon was on the front line, with sharpened steel combs, and we have to fight this again.

Then, as now, Nae pasaran!

My chief engineer granda was a Blockade Runner oot the Clyde..

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, Lorraine, for trying to condense our Mercurial mate.

How lucky we were...

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 5d

A beautiful obit for a beautiful pal and former colleague.

The laughs we had, and that laugh...

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/obituarie...

Friend's heartfelt tribute to former Dundee councillor Dr Shona Main

Journalist Lorraine Wilson, who acted as celebrant at Dr Main's funeral, remembers the "huge laugh" and "astonishing legacy" of her friend Shona, who has died aged 55.

www.thecourier.co.uk

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 5d

That'll be the old Double 6 (because of its address, at 66 Broomielaw), The Doune, Minstrels, Frank's Place and Leon's Waterfront, lying in the street.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...