I hope they get a drone up there & scan the façade before demolition starts
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I hope they get a drone up there & scan the façade before demolition starts
A man talking animatedly in front of a screen with his name, Edgar Wright, in large white letters.
The corner of Union & Gordon Streets in Glasgow with a burnt out & partially collapsed four storey Victorian sandstone building.
Took a detour to see the devastation on Union/Gordon St on the way to a Q&A with Edgar Wright at the GFT. He talked about Glasgow’s strength as a film location being its diversity of architecture. Let’s not lose that
Excellent stuff from The Bell. Glad to have curious and invested journalists working hard in and for the city - a rarity these days, and worth treasuring.
There should be asbestos awareness training in schools, that stuff is everywhere
At the risk of stating the obvious, folk need to keep away from the fumes
I’m assuming we don’t yet know if there’s asbestos or other nasties in that building
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An exciting, unique and smelly project coming to industrial museums near you!
More to come, but so delighted to be working with Will, our Sniffer in Residence extraordinaire!
On #WorldBookDay you can find out more about #Scotland's #printers on our website
First the CCA, now Trongate 103.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2589875...
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Still time to register via link in bio ...
Interesting piece, published by @glasgowbell.bsky.social, on "Glasgow's Secret Geometry" and Harry Bell's leyline theory. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-sacr...
100% Contrast the People’s Palace with another leaky Glasgow museum, the Burrell Collection
Probably compounded by Glasgow Museums’ campaign for direct govt funding along the lines of National Museums Liverpool
Printed copy of "The Ancient Town of Leith", "A New Poem by Sir William Topaz McDonagall, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah. No 21 Lothian Street, Edinburgh. VR. Copyright. All Rights Reserved. Composed May 1899". It is an original on yellowed paper, signed in pen by the author.
Look I know there's a lot of *waves hand* going on right now, but it's come to my attention that William "Worst Poet Ever" McGonagall composed in 1899 an elegy to "The Ancient Town of Leith" in his own, inimitable style. So if you care to gather round, I shall now retell it for the whole class 🧵🗣️🪑
A large crowd of people standing on a frozen curling pond watching players in action. In the foreground a picnic is laid out and a dog has to be restrained from chasing a curling stone.
We are enjoying the #WinterOlympics #curling but can't help feeling the players could work on their attire after seeing this painting by John Levack
It shows a curling match near #Airdrie in 1857. Spot the coal mines that partly funded the players' wealth www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
Photo of a boarded up old whitewashed, two storey building seen through a locked gate.
Here’s a photo I took of it in the late ‘80s
A sepia tinted pictorialist photo of an ironworks with tall blast furnaces and even taller industrial chimneys under a dramatic sky with the sun behind a dark cloud.
I love this picture postcard view of the works www.instagram.com/p/CQBIBHcDEW...
This image shows the Hunslet Steel Works in Leeds, England, which operated between 1889 and 1935. Located between Balm Road and Pepper Road, the works covered 25 acres and was a major industrial centre. At its peak, the foundry employed 1,400 to 1,500 people and was a significant manufacturer of steel tram tracks. The area was characterised by extreme industrial pollution, with estimated soot fall-out of 45 tons per square mile annually in the early 20th century. The site was serviced by the Midland Railway, allowing for the transport of raw materials and the export of finished products worldwide.
A photograph courtesy of of Leeds Museums and Galleries of the city's Steel Works in the Hunslet area dating to March 1921 when a strike was taking place. The site opened in 1889 and was at one time Britain's largest producer of steel tram tracks. 1/3
Explore the career of 19th-century engineer George Harrap with @scientistsoph.bsky.social. Learn how to reconstruct a Victorian engineer’s life using professional registers, patents & industrial records.
📅 12 Feb 2026 | 13:30–14:30 | Online via Zoom
Book your place: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
North Lanarkshire Council Museums are looking for a full-time Site Supervisor
The post is based at Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge, closing date is 17 February
Wow, what a great photo!
A photograph of a training exercise in a mock-up mine at Coatbridge Mines Rescue. 5 men in miner's gear with helmets and breathing apparatus tend to an unconscious man on the ground.
New on our museum collections website is a 1st hand account of the operation to rescue 135 miners trapped underground following the 1950 Knockshinnoch Colliery Disaster
It was written by James Lillie of the Coatbridge Mines Rescue Brigade www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/rescue...
4 weeks today we will be celebrating #InternationalWomen’sDay with our 2026 online Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March.
Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free.
womenofphoto.com
Part of an iron mortsafe, with the cast letters "W Fulton & Sons" visible.
A few days ago in the Ramshorn Kirkyard, the sun was picking out an unexpected piece of Glasgow industrial history at the base of a mortsafe.
We are recruiting for a Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums. Closing date: 17 February 2026
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/nor...
If you like old trams and trains - and seriously, who doesn’t - then you need to have a wander through Summerlee.
#museums #museumfromhome #Scotland
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Still time to register for our next online talk ...
'Exchanging Stereoscopic Views' on Tuesday 10th February 2026 (1900 GMT) with Rebecca Sharpe (Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy) and Julie Gibb (National Museums of Scotland).
Register via the link ...
events.rps.org/en/historica...
Some good heritage news - the restoration of Maritime Hull's Scotch Derrick crane. There are many things to go and see in Hull - a rather underrated city well worth a visit. @c20society.bsky.social @simonhickman.bsky.social
youtu.be/qQbm7qLyRKY?...
Exciting job opening @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Library and Archives Manager. Details here careers.nms.ac.uk/job/827960 #museumjobs #libraryjobs 📜
Thanks, I hadn’t even considered Montagu House