Mark Rustbucket

Over the Kiel canal, Rendsberg with a spiral ramp to carry trains at the top level after Prussia seized Shleswi-Holstein. The gondola underneath had a collision with a ship but was recently reistated. And little 80-m Osten www.puentestransbordadores.com/en/osten-hem...

Next stop, Puente Bizkaia, then Rochefort, then two in Germany, then Buenos Aires, Duluth, and you have the world set.

The top of a pilaster, in a design similar to those by the Scottish architect Alexander ’Greek’ Thompson.

The top of a pilaster with peeling paint

The base of a pilaster showing rust

View of the facade at street level

If you want your building details to look crisp and clean, even after 150 years of neglect, consider cast iron.

Iconic bridge on National Register of Historic Places faces DEMOLITION Idaho's iconic Rainbow Bridge is facing demolition after 92 years.

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The central suspended span being lifted by cranes into place at Kylesku Bridge in Sutherland Scotland on 8 August 1984. It is a reinforced concrete cantilever bridge built on a curve, and on 45 degree angled supports

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.

Happy Yorkshire day to those that celebrate 🥳 here’s a bit of brutalist Barnsley 🏡 #yorkshireday

Edinburgh chimneys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Under the Forth Bridge, North Queensferry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Photograph dated "June 1898", looking across a shipyard basin containing five partly fitted-out ships.

It's been ages since I did a Glasgow photo thread.

It's June 1898 and we're sitting on a roof looking across the Fairfield fitting-out basin, in this photo from an anonymous album held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Let's see what we can see.

The #WorldHeritage Committee is in session, recognising sites of Outstanding Universal Value and global significance!

Discover the new sites inscribed on the UNESCO List: unes.co/47whc #UNESCO #47WHC

A scutch mill? Is it in Strathclyde Country Park? Do you know what you expect to find?

Wouldn't be surprised by a fall of snow sometime between now and Sunday.

Are you looking for the forge? I had the impression it reused stone from the communal building put up by Owenites in 1825-7, commemorated by the street "Community Place". I hope the horseshoe weir survives.

Congratulations also to Diyarbakir, Ephesus, Susa, Palermo, Burgundy, Champagne, Fray Bentos, Riujkan, Padre Trembleque Aqueduct, the Alamo, Blue Mountain in Jamaica, and sites of the Meiji industrial revolution in Japan

Newspaper account of the opening of the western part of Rosefield Mills, Dumfries, in 1889.

Rosefield Mill phase 2.

Emma Sandys is in my garden, looking at the flowers Not literally, unfortunately.

1. 🖼️ Emma Sandys is overlooked but her work is fascinating; I love her attention to detail and symbolism in her paintings of historical, literary and mythological women. Elaine is a great example; there were two Elaines in Arthurian myth, I think this is Elaine of Corbenic.

Things which are or have been ‘threats to democracy’ (apparently):

Mummy thinks this is a swindle.

Olivetti Building (former), Harrison Road, Dundee, off the Kingsway. From Google Streetview. Built 1972. Triangular prows project the building forward over supporting pillars (piloti). Roof now grey instead of original golden yellow.

Similar building in Dundee, one of the Olivetti quartet. canmore.org.uk/site/333496/...

And right now our blacksmith Stacey gilds a weather vane for Glasgow Cathedral and Historic Environment Scotland. #BBC1Scotland

Is Diane Morgan the only person to have been on both Who Do You Think You Are? *and* Who Are You, Do You Think?

📷 Gaza, Paİestine, 1898

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Too many books? I think what you mean is not enough bookshelves.

Just back from Harris, so here’s three bits of wriggly tin and a bus shelter for you. You’re welcome.

And me. La Gare du Nord- its columns were made in Glasgow.

The 1970s pyramid was known as "Hyde's Folly" after its creator Eammon Hyde, planner at Lothian Regional Council, so Colin McLean told me (both being successive Directors at Scottish Mining Museum). Yet it has proved its worth as a viewpoint.

The initial 3 engines in service are imported from England however: La Flèche, Le Stephenson and l'Elephant. The first domestic loco, Le Belge, leaves the Cockerill works at Seraing in December 1835. Despite the speed, "one experiences no difficulty in breathing," the French visitor reports.

Clive and Carsten have scraped the bottom of the barrel, or are there some gems to discover?