Just got on the Subway at Govan with the new passenger screen doors - UTO next (unstaffed train operation)

Rushing through Glasgow’s Central Station it is easy to overlook some of its details. Standing, facing the Gordon Street entrance, towards Rowand Anderson’s Central Hotel, you may notice a set of 8 emblems/coats of arms in the pediments above the top floor windows. 1/3

Masts coming down in Sailing Ship Glenlee at the Transport Museum Glasgow (taken 15/1/26). Being refurbished as part of a planned maintenance project.

Temperature inversion yesterday from Campsie Fells towards Milngavie/Bearsden. Seen from Berryknowes Road, Cardonald looking North with the Broomhill Flats to the right. Taken 13/1/26. f

Glasgow’s Toolbooth Steeple once the rain had stopped and the sun was setting. 400 years young this year.

Happy St Kentigern’s Day to all - here are a couple of sculptures from the City of Glasgow College campus (taken March 2024)

Timeless message from @ncdominie.bsky.social on this day, the Feast of St Kentigern, Glasgow's own: "Have a blessed St Kentigern's Day, and try not to decapitate any sheep." 🙏😬🐦🌳🔔🐟

@uofglasgow.bsky.social Coat of Arms on the Imaging Centre of Excellence at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Linthouse, Glasgow - 575 years of innovation !

Tower Blocks 305 and 341 Caledonia Road from Southern Necropolis (14/10/24). Demolished 29th June 2025.

John Foxx and West Drumoyne

Glasgow’s Southside to a ‘T’ …

Buchanan Street, Glasgow 30/12/25

As we near the end of Glasgow's 850 celebratory year it is time to say adieu to the logo and to welcome the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen's 900th year in 2026!

A great wee book …

A 6 piece Christmas Jigsaw & quiz. Name the building, its date of construction, its parish location and its internationally famous teacher. A well-done emoji is up for grabs. More on the site and quiz answer in ALT.

Plaque to Alexander Smith, the Glasgow Poet, on wall of pend to South Exchange Court, Glasgow (18/12/25). Portrait of Smith circa 1856 and cover of the Poetry Anthology named in his honour published by the 3rd Eye Centre in 1983. More on Smith in ALT.

On and off Argyle Street, Glasgow 1545 and 1555 hrs 10th December 2025

A pavement repair, The New ‘Vicky’, Glasgow

金継ぎ Kuntsugi, Mount Florida, Glasgow style

Ring-necked Parakeets in Clarkston/Busby. Southside additions to Glasgow’s Victoria and Dawsholm Park colonies.

Fire 🔥 in one of the new blocks at the Sanctuary Development on site of the former Victoria Infirmary - at least 5 appliances in attendance 1510 hrs 1/12/25

The doo has flu the coup !

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

James Tassie Pub, Kilmarnock Rd, Glasgow. Tassie was born 1735 in Pollokshaws & trained as portrait medallionist at the Foulis Academy. An artistic & commercial success a 1791 list of his work ran to 15800 items. This 1787 cameo of Adam Smith is believed to be the only authentic portrait of Smith

Larkin meets Thomson at the Caledonia Road Church, Glasgow, 20th October 2025. #alexandergreekthomson #agt #glasgow #churches (@calligraphyoutside.bsky.social) more on ALT

🌼🐝 Bees are tiny heroes! They pollinate a third of the food we eat, support wild plants & keep ecosystems healthy. Protecting bees means protecting our future. Plant flowers & spread the buzz! Our interactive Royal Bee Trail launches in 2026. Stay tuned for more details🐝

Christmas is not far away and Glasgow’s Christmas Tree has been relocated to Cathedral Square this year.

'Monumentum Tempestatis' - a double fleur de lis plaque affixed to the remains of an Oak Tree on Glasgow Green, close to the Clyde Tidal Weir. It commemorates its felling during Storm Éowyn back in January (2025).

Korean War memorial near Bridge of Sighs entrance to Necropolis - my Dad was sent there for his national service in 1951 in the Royal Corp of Signals & seconded to US Army/UN. He got a UN medal & wrote everything in upper case from then onwards !

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Good news at last www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/1420...

Just after an echelon of Greylag Geese fly overhead, I turn off Spean Street in Cathcart Glasgow to be greeted by this handsome fella on the banks of the White Cart

The beauty of Beaux Arts and Art Nouveau - the Grand Palais in Paris. Built for the 1900 Universal Exposition it became a hospital during WW1 and used by the Parisian resistance as an HQ during the Liberation of Paris in 1944/5

Tuileries Gardens, Paris at sunset on the eve of All Saints Day 2025.

Upper Upper Clyde Shipyard, former Seath's, Rutherglen. Yard famous for Cluthas, small iron hulled boats. Its closed in 1902 when the weir at Albert Bridge Glasgow stopped sea access. Continued until 1923 as Govan based Chalmers & McKivett - who the name Broomloan to the yard.

The tower of Rutherglen Old Church. Medieval in origin new spire was added in 1710. Originally dedicated to St Conval, a disciple of Kentigern & founded 6th C. Believed that Wallace concluded the peace between England & Scotland here on 8th Feb 1297 #Rutherglen #Ruglen #899

Choices. Graffiti at the Dalmarnock waste treatment plant in Glasgow 22/10/22.

Amazing sky over Glasgow 1635 hrs October 23 2025

Spoutmouth, Glasgow, October 15th 2025 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oatlands, Glasgow, post Pakora shortages, October 2025

Cathkin Park, Glasgow, October 2025

Surry Hills, Sydney 2200 hrs

Clyde Built (again) this time outside Hobart Town Hall, Tasmania - taken on a fine early spring day - more on Laidlaw & Sons www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1888_Book/La...

Lantern on the gates to James Dempster's Old Cathcart Parish Church looking sadly awry. Managed to locate the original design in the wonderful HES reproduction of Walter MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry catalogue. #old #cathcart #parish #saracen #foundry

Truth will always out … ah for the days (and waist size) of Flip 😉

Clyde Built

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The secular amongst the sacred … Irn Bru formulation the stained glass art in Glasgow Cathedral (by Talia Blatt and the Glasgow Glass Studio)

Arachnophobia alert! Araneus diadematus - European Garden Spider. This beauty is about 4cm long and hanging on its web between the ivy and our bbq.

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