City of the living, city of the dead...
A bird's eye view of the city's Southern Necropolis, Caledonia Road, the old main road south, and down the length of Sandyfaulds Street, to the Paragon Cinema, in Cumberland Street in the Gorbals, taken from Dixon's Blazes Ironworks.
Pic: Hugh Jamieson
Well worth a visit, these 1968 shots that the late David did to get into film school are precious and beautiful. He had a great eye.
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In the town, is this weather!
'wandered down Renfield St. From a distance theres just a big gloomy dark space, but up close you can see the street light is still on above the Blue Lagoon & theres man doing an oil painting of it.'
Pic: GovanhillGo
My first job - straight out of college - was up on the top floor, helping old Neil Morris, of Morris Furniture, edit his memoir and history of the family firm, 'Shavings For Breakfast'.
Even the Irn-Bru clock is now long gone. It was replaced by an all-singing, all-dancing electronic billboard, which was also lost in Sunday's Union Street blaze.
Ba-Bru, modelled on Rudyard Kipling's Sabu the Elephant Boy, together with his Scots pal Sandy, advertised the fizzy drink from the 1930s, appearing in comic strips in the evening newspapers.
It's 1982 and Pearce Signs were removing the 1940s neon Ba-Bru sign from the gable end of Caledonian Chambers, designed by James Miller and built in 1901-3 to house offices for the Caledonian Railway and private tenants, to be replaced by the Irn-Bru clock.
Thank you - I thought it must be somewhere about there.
This week Mr Worsdall does the double; a vanished building in a vanished, or later renamed, street. Despite doing some digging, I can't find out what became of Terrace Street, although I suspect it vanished beneath the M8.
Pic/Text: The City That Disappeared by Frank Worsdall (1981)
Just call me Tron...
Well, I survived my first live telly in ages. And, yes, if I'd known I'd be sitting against a blue backdrop, I'd have worn a different shirt.
Last time were in the same frame was 2018 - the day after the second Art School fire - him covering for STV, me going live around the world on the BBC News channel. Gulp!
Think tonight marks John's final appearance on Scotland Tonight, before he retires on Friday.
Another call out of the blue, another TV appearance.
Going live in the studio, with John Mackay, on STV's Scotland Tonight, at 10.40pm.
A fabulously bustling postcard image of a busy Buchanan Street in the early 1900s - all carts, carriages, Hansom cabs (patented in 1834 by architect Joseph Hansom in Hinckley, England), and a lone cyclist.
The low building on the right is the original entrance to the Argyll Arcade.
All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up...
Speaking about the Union Street fire, and the threats to our built heritage, on the teatime news.
Night and day; what a grim reality for Glasgow to wake up to today...
Pic 1: Newsquest, 1960s
Pic 2: Network Rail
In Glasgow, we go to bed hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.
This is major!
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I had a big birthday yesterday.
Today is a big downer...
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This is heartbreaking.
Pic: Vyro Media
The Provisional wing of CSI Glasgow out in force tonight, complete with tinfoil hats, explaining how they would have extinguished Union Street fire, while brave men and women continue to try to contain said conflagration.
Wankers!
I wish - on a nice birthday Malbec, but there is some OVD in the kitchen...
I know, mate, but that's a discussion for a different day.
Not for us to guess, but 'Six crews and a specialist vehicle were sent to the scene on Union Street at about 15:45'
I was at both Art School fires - police have ruled me out as a suspect.
Good job it was pissing down at the second, I was greetingl, and nobody could tel.
The second blaze roared like a jet engine.
I wish there was a 'not like' button...
