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Re: Stirling

Postby mrsam » Sat May 15, 2010 7:34 pm

He did more...

This one at the corner of potrstreet and dunbarton road

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and this one down port street

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and this detail in a nondescript building might be from him
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Re: Stirling

Postby Lucky Poet » Sun May 23, 2010 10:10 pm

Very nice, and unusual to see non-industrial brick faced buildings in Scotland around that time, I'd have thought?

And I love this:
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I don't get the first two letters, but changing the spelling around it seems to say, "[though?] thocht is free, haud weel yer tongue I advise thee." How odd :)
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Re: Stirling

Postby HollowHorn » Sun May 23, 2010 10:12 pm

I liked the spunking cock.
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Re: Stirling

Postby mrsam » Sun May 23, 2010 10:15 pm

Lucky Poet wrote:Very nice, and unusual to see non-industrial brick faced buildings in Scotland around that time, I'd have thought?

And I love this:
mrsam wrote:Image

I don't get the first two letters, but changing the spelling around it seems to say, "[though?] thocht is free, haud weel yer tongue I advise thee." How odd :)


Literal translation for those so minded:
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AX Thohtis Fre
Hud Veil Yer Tung
I Adviz The

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Re: Stirling

Postby mrsam » Sun May 23, 2010 10:15 pm

HollowHorn wrote:I liked the spunking cock.


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Re: Stirling

Postby HollowHorn » Sun May 23, 2010 10:17 pm

:D
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Re: Stirling

Postby Lucky Poet » Sun May 23, 2010 10:19 pm

::):
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Re: Stirling

Postby mrsam » Thu May 27, 2010 10:00 pm

Some stirling details

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Fountain by

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The court building

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Scrole over a doorway

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Door of the old postoffice

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the other door

Mosaic porch floor

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Re: Stirling

Postby mrsam » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:23 pm

By way of a bump some date stones and other details from Stirling Note: the top of the town was largly demolished in the 40's and 50's what remains today is a modern vision using a few old scottish housing styles to create a street scape of 'modern' housing. A few details werew reinstated

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Coat of arms
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Part of a John Allan building - one of the stirling crests-civic seal type thing?
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Rebuilt this building was- for get when tho :wink:
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Building inscription
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Erm sorry but No locations as I have forgotten (most of my Stirling pics are within a 10 - 15 min walk from the city centre so location not so important)
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Re: Stirling

Postby Lucky Poet » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:57 am

mrsam wrote:Image

Love that.
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Re: Stirling

Postby Josef » Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:10 pm

Interesting spelling of 'tailor'.
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Re: Stirling

Postby mrsam » Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:18 pm

Josef wrote:Interesting spelling of 'tailor'.


This house is founded for support of the 'pvir be'[sic] [pier(as in house of lords pier?)] Robert Spittal (a well known local name) tailor to king james the 4th in the year 1503 R S

I love the joined th's, james spelled with an I as in the latin Yacobus and the v's in place of u's

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Re: Stirling

Postby Josef » Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:28 pm

Me too.

'This hous is foundit for support of the puir be Robert Spitall taillyor to King Iames the 4 in anno 1530 RS'
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Re: Stirling

Postby Lucky Poet » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:36 am

I'm rather fond of 'foundit', bearing in mind 'ou'='oo' in old Scots orthography. Hous = hoose, in other words. 'Taillyour' is a cracker too. It rings a distant bell that the use of 4 for King Jamie's number marks the tail end of the use of Arabic numerals, later Monarchs (especially after 1603) having adopted the Latin after the Continental fashion. I may well be talking shite though.

(I've been dying to use 'orthography' for ages, and I leave satisfied.)
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Re: Stirling

Postby Josef » Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:11 am

Lucky Poet wrote:I'm rather fond of 'foundit', bearing in mind 'ou'='oo' in old Scots orthography. Hous = hoose, in other words. 'Taillyour' is a cracker too. It rings a distant bell that the use of 4 for King Jamie's number marks the tail end of the use of Arabic numerals, later Monarchs (especially after 1603) having adopted the Latin after the Continental fashion. I may well be talking shite though.

(I've been dying to use 'orthography' for ages, and I leave satisfied.)


It's the sixth use of the word on HG. The last one was by your good self, exactly fourteen months to the the day.

How time flies...

The ''ou'='oo' thing hadn't registered with me before. I'll watch out for it in future.
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