'I'm gutted!'
03.03.2026 16:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0'I'm gutted!'
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Not been in yet, but have both those titles.
I'll pop in next time I'm at Street Level.
All change at Central...
It's 1902, we're looking east on the corner of Oswald, Argyle, and Hope Streets, and Glasgow Central Station is expanding.
Pic: Glasgow Libraries
Avoiding taxes...
02.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sculpted by my late mate, Tony Morrow - also the co-creator of the Lobbey Dosser statue.
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It could be you...
Just been through and scored all the nominations for the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award, at this month's Glasgow International Comedy Festival. The fourth year in a row that I've been privileged to join the judging panel.
Good luck to all the runners and riders.
First the CCA, now Trongate 103.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2589875...
Needless to say, come 5.30pm, the Boys in Blue turned up, took customers’ names and addresses, and removed six large sacks of what they deemed to be 'obscene' items, then charged the shop’s co-owners with selling obscene goods.
02.03.2026 11:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Glasgow shoppers seemed less concerned, with the opening day customers' main complaint being that the prices were too high!
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The outlet, at St George's Cross, called Ann(e) Boleyn, saw more than a few folk - mostly male from the looks of this picture - lose their heads, and get their knickers in a twist.
As usual, nothing unites the city's competing religions like a common enemy.
Looking more like a still from an episode of Father Ted rather than a real protest, this was the scene in Maitland Street, in 1971, when Mr Cameron and his business partner decided to open Glasgow's first sex shop.
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My mention of Cameron's Commandos the other day set me off down a rabbit hole - just what did John Cameron get up to after he'd helped rid the city of nesting starlings?
Here's your answer...
Pic: Buying daffodils from Malcolm Campbell's, at the corner of Renfield Street and St. Vincent Street, 1955, by Malcolm Dunbar.
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Daffadowndilly, by A A Milne
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown,
She turned to the south wind,
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead"
Nacht...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=49PK...
Something very comforting to hear, at 1.20am, my local, I think long-board, skateboarder neighbour cruise down my street.
One of the first harbingers of Spring!
With all that's going on in the world/our world...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv2G...
What a songwriter, one of the last of the Brill Building brilliance.
That's the UK's 10cc doing backing on this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2lp...
It's Saturday again, so we're back to those old Anderston postcards. This week, we're in the now vanished Stobcross Street; once a human hive, now obliterated by the city end of the Clydeside Expressway.
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A walk across the rooftops...
Had some legal stuff to do yesterday afternoon, and the lawyers' office offers great views over the city. Love the Turneresque sky in this.
March of the giants...
Pic: Gorbals Publican Kenneth MacLean keeps the lights on, and the beer flowing, in the face of overwhelming odds, 1968 (Oscar Marzaroli), Glasgow Caledonian University Archives.
My head beating like a song from The Clash, My brain writing cheques that my body couldn't cash...
Aged about 19, I'm in that, 'don't dance!' crowd.
A good night!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWP5...
Nacht II
open.spotify.com/track/1YEMMR...
Nacht...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzoY...
From this to this...
A depressing sight on Sauchiehall Street yesterday, with the CCA now boarded up.
Mr Cameron later went on to open the city's first sex shop. The outlet, at St George's Cross, was called Ann Boleyn, and a few folk lost the heid over it...
27.02.2026 11:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No, council paid up, and most of the starlings moved on to become Paisley's problem...
27.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Famous as the home of the Five Past Eight variety shows, the cost of the lavish summer spectaculars eventually proved too much. The theatre closed with a Cilla Black concert in 1969. Despite a massive campaign to save it, the building was demolished in 1971.
27.02.2026 10:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Alhambra, on the corner of Waterloo and Wellington Streets, was the last big traditional theatre built in Glasgow. It opened in 1910, was designed by architect JJ Burnet, and sat 2,750 people on 4 levels.
27.02.2026 10:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Spike, being Spike, was more than happy to goon about for the press photographers, hanging off the back of a Cameron's Commandos lorry (the men brought in to help clear the city's buildings of nesting starlings), and pressing up against the box office window with his co-star, Bill Kerr.
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