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Heard, then saw, Great Spotted Woodpecker high up in tree in Kelvindale. Pity I only had the point and shoot, but I did capture it. (Scrabbles around looking for picture...)

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Scottish factory workers discover that their forgotten gesture of solidarity for Chile 40 years ago had incredible consequences.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/debasers/nae-pasaran-an-untold-story-of-chilean-solidarity

Bridie wrote:British Pathe
Billy Smart's Circus, Gorbals 1954

The circus comes to Thistle St for child with polio who couldn't go.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/round ... ry/Glasgow

The child with constipation who couldn't go would be better...

Bridie wrote:Thanks for that Paul.I recognise the Union St frontage although I was in the Cambridge St one mainly. I also recognise the girl in the video, think she was an actress in the day maybe even still.

Definitely Cambridge Street.

BY way of prompting Mr Dammit to visit and muse upon more cemeteries... Nice... http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq231/rabmania/rabmania050/DSC_0134_zps643ermxs.jpg http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq231/rabmania/rabmania050/DSC_0151_zpsdzt7zu7x.jpg http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq231/rabma...

moonbeam wrote:Our leader promises 1500 new jobs. But probably that number are going as shops close like Crockets. I gave up shopping in Glasgow years ago as the city leaders become more and more "anti" car.

Building yet another mall with a huge car park overlooking George Square= anti-car.

the first one looks most...real.

Footballer Grant Holt, wife and three wee girls in Carluccios, tonight.

Mind-reading eh? So what do I think about that?
Good luck with the fundraising though.

Fossil wrote:

rabmania wrote:The wee guy at Partick (where the fruit n veg shop was), next to the Hayburn, made me a jacket. Nice job.

Thanks Rab. Whats the prices like?

erm, it was a present...but the buyer is not known for being over-generous.

The wee guy at Partick (where the fruit n veg shop was), next to the Hayburn, made me a jacket. Nice job.

Me too Josef, on all counts. Having said that, Delmont's better here than that other place he doesn't post on anymore; it makes me cringe.

To be fair the op did have a full stop just the one though and then it all went tits up

As a temporary Scot 1952-3 (my father was in the RN and was standing by the Royal Yacht being build at John Brown's shipyard on the Clyde) I can remember seeing what I now know to be the remnants of the George Bennie Railplane near the (old) Bearsden Academy, which I attended. Does anyone else reme...

+1 Eddy, there's calmness and joy as well as good bread on offer.