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Mother Glasgow and Old Father Clyde
Somerset House, London

Who knows what Glasgow holds in her hands

(Keystone image by Bob Speel)

Respectful my arse.

I strongly suspect you aren't wrong either!

How dare HES not be 100% staffed by people who match everyone's criteria for being100% perfect, 100% of the time. How. Dare very they...

Glad we have such paragons of virtue in our media setting perfect examples to keep us all in check.

We are so shite, and lucky.

😒

Now (partly) under the M8

The impressive stepping basins of the Blackhill Locks on the Monkland Canal, Glasgow. The locks are picked put in light blue with the old Incline highlighted in dark blue. The thin blue line is the course of Molendinar Burn

But a problem particular to Glasgow? In my lived experience, not, it's a symptom of a flagging economy and, I dare say, an ailing state...

Tavistock to Plymouth rail link dream thrown into jeopardy £1.5 million is needed to prove feasibility

Tavistock: We are too poor to invest, say govt and County

When was it ever not the case... anywhere in the UK

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Exhibition opens on Friday!

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I took the liberty of commemorating the event by giving giving the unnamed lane on the old property line the name of 'Thorndyke Lane', in reference to the lands of Thorn and the demolished dyke.

Harvey be damned!

Harvey's Dyke?

Thought for a minute this door I spotted in Vienna was from Mackintosh's Willow Tea Rooms interior but it was just the champagne monocle playing tricks on me 🧐

Especially self-appointed gatekeepers

Heritage gatekeepers forget their ane arses at times 😒

access encouraging antisocial behaviour would seem to be the source of most of the consternation around this idea of an eastern access point. It's a very strange position for them to now take given that increased accessibility was one of the main aims of the Friends in securing a future for the site

Thanks for clarifying, confirms what I'd understood already, that the main objections are those being raised by the current FGN committee. FGN's apparent amnesia surrounding the background of this proposal (given it was amongst the original aspirations in 2005) and disingenuous arguments around...

Quick - get her everybody! 😂

Ach it's all just a matter of experiences on that point, and healthy disagreement can be very productive! So thanks again to you too :)

Yeah

I wouldn't dream of doubting your sincerity, we all want the best for our built and lived environment, even when it's a cemetery. But the Friends committee are dead wrong on this. I'd love to know for sure why the committee has changed their stance on this but they aren't for telling

I getcha, please dont think Im trying to shoot the messenger as it were, I appreciate your conversation:) I'm also stating information in the public domain, gut facts rather than conjecture and rhetoric being spread by the Friends committee. From experience I disagree with your last point though

The only concerns FGN and the CC seem to be citing are antisocial behaviour and some as yet unqualified existential threat. Its all hyperbole based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts, the processes and aim

It's a listed site, any changes need planning approval, there are no planning submissions, no planning application for a gate has been approved. You're conflating a funding award with planning approval, they're nothing to do with each other

All smacks of nimbyism and ego on behalf of the FGN committee tbh

No gate has been approved. A funding award is not a planning submission let alone approval, hence the consultation. There seems to be a lot of confusion being sewn by the position being taken by the Friends group but a new gate is not an existential threat to the Necropolis

But there was never a wall there in the original layout so I'm still not following the argument. The march wall is not significant, it's just a boundary to separate the cemetery from the now demolished tenement back courts on Firpark St

Going a bit round in circles here with the antisocial behaviour argument. I don't understand how the potential for increased footfall results in antisocial behaviour, as if that correlation were true the Necropolis should be worse now than 20 years ago, but the opposite is the case

Also also, I appreciate you explaining your thoughts here, many thanks :)

Also, 20 years in the making hardly qualifies as rushed...