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In Baltimore they fell oaks for a new AI Institute...in Ireland in 2020 they allowed a turbine funded by Amazon to offset their datacentres energy usage to be built on a bog (!) which then caused a massive landslide & environmental emergency in Donegal & adjacent NI counties bsky.app/profile/plan...

Absolutely gutted that the Muirhead Oaks, an avenue of Category A, ecologically and historically important veteran Oaks in Chapelhall, Lanarkshire have been felled to build an AI Data Centre.

It seems nature's green lungs, protected landscapes & biodiversity are mere detritus to the water & energy-hungry AI industry... mere trifles to be destroyed by big tech worldwide bsky.app/profile/balt...

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

Love a bit of local history. If you count Canada as local.

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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...

A detail of the side of a double decker tram which has orange paint below the lower windows and a band of green paint above. Immediately above the lower windows are narrow illuminated glass signs with red lettering reading, 'CORPORATION TRANSPORT'.

An oblique view of one end of the tram which is painted cream, green and orange. There are thre lights in the front and arrow-shaped indicators. On the front of the top deck are route and destination indicators reading, '15', 'COATBRIDGE' and 'FOOTBALL MATCH'.

Love to see the new illuminated 'Corporation Transport' lettering on 1930s Glasgow tramcar 1245 which is being restored by our amazing volunteers at Summerlee Museum

1245 was the last Glasgow tram to run before the power was turned off. See the Glasgow's Last Tram Group website glasgowslasttram.net

Bridge Street Underground, #Glasgow 1977. 🚇
(Chris Doak)

Explore the trees with the most interesting stories – Tree of the year The European Tree of the Year 🌳 is a popular competition that takes place every year in February and features the winners of the national rounds.

www.treeoftheyear.org

Champions League!

VOTE for the Argyle Street ash, and one other...

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Voting ends 22nd February.

Glazing detail- Scotland Street School. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1906.

Thanks for sharing Mark. I enjoyed being interviewed by Vincent Reed for this podcast. #dendrochronology #Scotland

A yellow and brown Hamilton-designed double-decker Leeds tram, preserved at Crich Tramway Village. Source: Jim Dignan/CTV

He later became general manager at Leeds tramways, where he remained for 23 years.

You can read his story here

bygone.bungoblog.com/wp/57marywood/

Portrait of JB Hamilton in later years, grey hair, neatly trimmed moustache, suit. He was general manager of Leeds trams for 23 years, until his death

John Baillie Hamilton was a Glasgow-trained veterinary surgeon who lived at 57 Marywood Square in Strathbungo.

He devised a novel way of reducing the suffering of horses.

He electrified the Glasgow Corporation Tramways.

Having bagged the UK Tree of the Year award, the elegant 170 year old Argyle St Ash is in the running for European Tree of the Year.

You know what to do:

www.treeoftheyear.org/vote

#Glasgow

57 Marywood Square, the former 26 Moray Place - Bygone Bungo The residents of 57 Marywood Square; the Caledonian Pottery, how a vet electrified the Glasgow trams, and selling Welsh slate to the Scots.

As Rutherglen begins its 900 year celebrations, I note 57 Marywood Square, Strathbungo, was home to William Murray, owner of the immense Caledonian Pottery, once Rutherglen's largest employer, but now buried under the M74.

A new house history on BygoneBungo.

#Rutherglen900 #Strathbungo #Pottery

Resting before a full weekend of working but have a slightly exciting meeting with someone visiting from Orkney on Tuesday... news of the outcome will emerge in the fullness of time #secretsquirrel . Condolences to the 🦀

car headlamp cover, blackout Black painted cylindrical cover for a car headlight, consisting of a metal tube, with one end turned over to the outside and attached to an O section rear plate by four bolts. Between the end of the t...

Great detail! The headlamp blackout cover looks similar to the one here, plus others I've found. Wonder if Glasgow / certain places got an exemption so you could just have the blackout shade on one side. It was only 1940 though, so they'd just been introduced. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Standard Ten - Wikipedia

Oh yes, it looks like the Standard 10 hp, second pic down here with 3 windows each side (produced 1934-36). Good point about the headlamp alteration. Also looks like at least one of the mirrors has been removed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standar...

Good call, thanks! If no joy over the weekend here will drop them a line.

Photo of a car parked on Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow in 1940, with shops with awnings behind it.

Paging all car fans & automobile aficionados ~ can you tell us the make & model of this motor..?

Parked on Pollokshaws Rd opposite Langside Hall, it's from a larger photo taken 1940. Car may not be new but 1930s we assume. Someone's gotta know😊

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Flyer with the text: 'Hewing a Legacy: the Story of Pollok, Gilmour & Co. From Glasgow to the forests of North America' and an old colour illustration of the massive Gilmour & Co lumber complex in Trenton, Ontario, Canada.

Hewing a Legacy: the Story of Pollok, Gilmour & Company ~ new blog👉 sghet.com/project/hewi...

Graeme Boyle traces the story of how 3 school friends from the Mearns Parish School (later Newton Mearns) founded a #Glasgow firm that became a transatlantic timber trade colossus... #industrialheritage

Flyer with a collage image showing photos from the 3 heritage walks we held in Tradeston, Strathbungo & Linn Park in Glasgow's Southside for Glasgow Door Open Days Festival in September 2025. The link in the post goes to our latest podcast where you can find out from the walk leaders how the walks came about and how they panned out.

🎧 Southside Chronicles podcast Ep 8 ~ Behind the scenes of our #GlasgowDoorsOpenDays heritage walks of Tradeston, Strathbungo & Linn Park...what was it like for our new tour leaders & how will these walks evolve..? @gbptrust.bsky.social #Glasgow850 #SGHETpodcast Tune in! 👉 glad.radio/sside-chron-...

Article desribing how an artist lost track of her Glasgow symbols sculpture only to be reunited with it 30 years later at the exhibition

Lovely bit of serendipity at our current #Glasgow CoA exhibition as reorted in yesterday's Sunday Post! 🐦🌳🔔🐟

The Plaza Ballroom, Eglinton Toll, #Glasgow, 1962. 🕺💃
(E. Times)

In 1808 she married John Thomson and lived with his family in Pollokshaws. She moved with him to Langside, before returning to live in Pollok St (now Greenview St), Pollokshaws.

Woodside Terrace, which stood at 1078 Pollokshaws Rd, Crossmyloof, exactly where the modern Co-op is. It was where Elizabeth Burns, the illegitimate daughter of Robert Burns and Anna Park, ended her days in 1873. She was buried in the Kirk Lane burial ground, Pollokshaws.

#glasgow

The Odeon Cinema next door to the Plaza, Eglinton Toll, #Glasgow. The movies say 1978. 📽️
(Doug McKerrell)

Cathcart Rd, #Glasgow 1933. (GCC)

The shop at the gushet end of Titwood Place, now the New Anand restaurant, with its iconic round turret

Salisbury Quadrant was built by Andrew McIntyre, the younger brother of Strathbungo builder John, to a design by Robert Turnbull. Andrew had previously worked with Turnbull on Titwood Place, Nithsdale Road (home of Gelatessa, Titwood Bar, Lunar), although the design may have been #alexanderthomson