Mark Rustbucket
@markrustbucket.bsky.social
My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC
Next stop, Puente Bizkaia, then Rochefort, then two in Germany, then Buenos Aires, Duluth, and you have the world set.
August 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Next stop, Puente Bizkaia, then Rochefort, then two in Germany, then Buenos Aires, Duluth, and you have the world set.
Kylesku bridge was connected on this day in 1984. Still beautiful, but the midges are fiercesome there. By Ove Arup, I think. Photo from scottish roads archive:
August 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Kylesku bridge was connected on this day in 1984. Still beautiful, but the midges are fiercesome there. By Ove Arup, I think. Photo from scottish roads archive:
Happy #YorkshireDay from Whitby. Organs tuned, houses valued and no arguments brooked.
August 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Happy #YorkshireDay from Whitby. Organs tuned, houses valued and no arguments brooked.
Rosefield Mill phase 2.
July 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Rosefield Mill phase 2.
Similar building in Dundee, one of the Olivetti quartet. canmore.org.uk/site/333496/...
June 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Similar building in Dundee, one of the Olivetti quartet. canmore.org.uk/site/333496/...
Forest Mill: handloom shop on the right, spinning mill on the left, 1838, waterwheel house further left- hopefully Andy Elliot is still weaving in there, as in these photos. Yes indeed.
May 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Forest Mill: handloom shop on the right, spinning mill on the left, 1838, waterwheel house further left- hopefully Andy Elliot is still weaving in there, as in these photos. Yes indeed.
or some cherubs from Shanghai www.cdtwn.com/index.php?m=...
April 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
or some cherubs from Shanghai www.cdtwn.com/index.php?m=...
The site started as a sugar refinery built in 1865, a floor maltings (for McEwans beer) to the south and then both became a whisky bond with a big new warehouse added to the north. I did the listing, negotiated the consents for change and am chuffed with the result. Glad you like it!
April 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The site started as a sugar refinery built in 1865, a floor maltings (for McEwans beer) to the south and then both became a whisky bond with a big new warehouse added to the north. I did the listing, negotiated the consents for change and am chuffed with the result. Glad you like it!
And those apartments seen from the north, west and the Water of Leith. The whisky warehouse was built with a steel frame, part retained, in 1908.
April 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
And those apartments seen from the north, west and the Water of Leith. The whisky warehouse was built with a steel frame, part retained, in 1908.
Here they are being created in the 1990s inside a VAT69 whisky bond.
April 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here they are being created in the 1990s inside a VAT69 whisky bond.
No but Paisley Abbey has a gargoyle that fell to earth with Ripley from Alien. www.stirlingcityheritagetrust.org/blog/story-b...
March 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
No but Paisley Abbey has a gargoyle that fell to earth with Ripley from Alien. www.stirlingcityheritagetrust.org/blog/story-b...
And it's a conservation area! A parting gift by Neil Grieve as he moved from Dundee Council Conservation Officer to teaching Euopean Urban Conservation. I thought that more LA would follow suit.
March 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
And it's a conservation area! A parting gift by Neil Grieve as he moved from Dundee Council Conservation Officer to teaching Euopean Urban Conservation. I thought that more LA would follow suit.
That's well remembered! McManus gallery has a wooden model of the original Royal Arch, which helped to jog my memory when I saw the Hill and Adamson photo. #Dundee
March 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
That's well remembered! McManus gallery has a wooden model of the original Royal Arch, which helped to jog my memory when I saw the Hill and Adamson photo. #Dundee
Timber sluice gate and 1790s arched culvert over tail race from Trottick Mill where music while you work was pioneered by the fiddle-playing uncle of James Brown, grandfather of flax spinning. River Dighty near Dundee.
February 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Timber sluice gate and 1790s arched culvert over tail race from Trottick Mill where music while you work was pioneered by the fiddle-playing uncle of James Brown, grandfather of flax spinning. River Dighty near Dundee.
Preview in 2023
February 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Preview in 2023
Vitrolite has ribbed reverse sides for fixing agents, shown at the exposed corner. Dickson & Co, florists and fruiterers were here from at least 1934 to 1970. Similar panels stacked in basements in Eglinton St, Glasgow, were uncovered by the M74 dig. #vitrolite @historicshopfronts.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Vitrolite has ribbed reverse sides for fixing agents, shown at the exposed corner. Dickson & Co, florists and fruiterers were here from at least 1934 to 1970. Similar panels stacked in basements in Eglinton St, Glasgow, were uncovered by the M74 dig. #vitrolite @historicshopfronts.bsky.social
In Clerk St, Edinburgh, a smashing time was had as panels of #Vitrolite were ripped by winds from Alexander's vintage clothing shop by Storm Éowyn. Emerald green opaque toughened glass, its smooth sides covered by red plywood, the chrome, black and green Art Deco shopfront shines through #StormÉowyn
January 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
In Clerk St, Edinburgh, a smashing time was had as panels of #Vitrolite were ripped by winds from Alexander's vintage clothing shop by Storm Éowyn. Emerald green opaque toughened glass, its smooth sides covered by red plywood, the chrome, black and green Art Deco shopfront shines through #StormÉowyn
there she goes -not my photo, but I saw it and it made an impression when I was in Portland.
January 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
there she goes -not my photo, but I saw it and it made an impression when I was in Portland.
Another street in Rosewell, this time with solar panels. I don't find them very objectionable.
January 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Another street in Rosewell, this time with solar panels. I don't find them very objectionable.
Lothian Coal Co also developed the mining village of Rosewell, but it is not a conservation area so you can compare and contrast with First to Fourth Streets, the south part of Newtongrange, which is.
January 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Lothian Coal Co also developed the mining village of Rosewell, but it is not a conservation area so you can compare and contrast with First to Fourth Streets, the south part of Newtongrange, which is.
Passed to Midlothian Council from BRB (Residiary) Ltd through the good offices of the Scotiish Viaducts Committee, which has since been wound up - remaining #HRE infrastructure still with #HighwaysAgency. It's high up in a gorge- those trees are tall.
January 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Passed to Midlothian Council from BRB (Residiary) Ltd through the good offices of the Scotiish Viaducts Committee, which has since been wound up - remaining #HRE infrastructure still with #HighwaysAgency. It's high up in a gorge- those trees are tall.
From East to West : Edinburgh, Albert, Imperial, Victoria, Old East and West Docks (infilled car parking etc for Victoria quay). Then the basin with the entrance dock and two graving (dry) docks.
December 26, 2024 at 3:44 PM
From East to West : Edinburgh, Albert, Imperial, Victoria, Old East and West Docks (infilled car parking etc for Victoria quay). Then the basin with the entrance dock and two graving (dry) docks.
That might represent mining headgear at Loos-en-Goelle, a mining village, bing and coal mine at top right, now a World Heritage Site, Bassin Miniere. Soldiers had no better headgear in 1915.
December 16, 2024 at 8:54 PM
That might represent mining headgear at Loos-en-Goelle, a mining village, bing and coal mine at top right, now a World Heritage Site, Bassin Miniere. Soldiers had no better headgear in 1915.
Due to scuffs on the glass? It was floodlit at one time. Yours truly before the flair went over the waterwheel.
December 8, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Due to scuffs on the glass? It was floodlit at one time. Yours truly before the flair went over the waterwheel.