OssianLore
Not dead yet
- Mother Glasgow and Old Father Clyde Somerset House, London Who knows what Glasgow holds in her hands (Keystone image by Bob Speel)
- 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. 😒
- 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
- Now (partly) under the M8
- Reposted by OssianLoreTavistock: We are too poor to invest, say govt and County
- When was it ever not the case... anywhere in the UK
- I've heard from some senior hospitality figures in Glasgow who are alarmed at the condition of the city centre and the impact on tourism. The streets around Central station a particular concern. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
- Reposted by OssianLoreExhibition opens on Friday! Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives 6 - 15 Nov, 2025, 10:00 - 19:30 The ARC, University of Glasgow www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...
- 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 🧐
- Heritage gatekeepers forget their ane arses at times 😒
- Especially self-appointed gatekeepers
- Reposted by OssianLoreExcellent exhibition at the Dovecot Studios. Not to be missed!
- Reposted by OssianLoreYou need 5,000 words on the history of interwar concrete housing in Edinburgh? No problem, I'll have that with you this afternoon. Oh, you want a brief 200 word introductory bio about myself? Er, give me a few weeks.
- Reposted by OssianLoreFullarton's Temple was built by Colonel William Fullarton on the isthmus at Troon in the early 18thC. It had an inscription on it: Baccho laetitiae datori, amacis et otio sacrum, which translates as Erected to Bacchus, the giver of happiness, for friends and for leisure. Demolished for Troon harbour
- Reposted by OssianLore"It’s a shame what they have done to Sauchiehall Street,” proclaims the headline. “Shuttered shops. Flashy pubs. Concrete [...] Nasty open spaces gaping like rotten teeth where the familiar buildings once stood." This Sunday Post article was penned not in 2025, but 1975.
- Reposted by OssianLoreThis is grim AF Feels like a firesale of heritage assets Yes that is the medieval Tironensian Abbey right beside it www.churchofscotland.org.uk/about-us/dep...
- Reposted by OssianLoreCylinder glass, Edinburgh.
- Reposted by OssianLoreA 1911 advert for Macfarlane's Castings of Glasgow showing the design of fine railings and a gate the owners have recently scrapped from a villa in Whithorn. It was just outside the Conservation Area. Sad that some don’t know what they have got till its gone.
- Reposted by OssianLoreESPC carpet ethe day
- Reposted by OssianLoreDunlop Place and Burnside Row in Nitshill, photographed by a member the Sanitary Department staff c1920s. This would be in the vicinity of modern day Dove St. 📷 Glasgow Museums #Glasgow
- Reposted by OssianLoreLost murals in the interior of the galleries by Henry Hornel and Alexander Roche. No photographs of these survive(?) Roche went on to paint a mural "The Finding of Queen Languoreth's Ring" in Glasgow City Chambers the following year.
- Different feel to this, reminds me of starting work in the 90s but in offices from the 70s, got that clunky-buttoned mechanical tech feel to it, like it's supported by a whole building endlessly filling and processing paper. Can... can I smoke?
- Reposted by OssianLoreAscog Hall Fernery Garden on the Isle of Bute is a rare Victorian fernery which houses many fern species and a 1000 year old King Fern. Built by Alexander Bannatyne Stewart in 1870, the sunken garden is carved out of the solid rock and covered with an ornate iron-framed glazed roof.
- Glasgow Coat of Arms detail on James Sellars 1888 Exhibition temporary main hall that I don't think has been remarked upon since it the structure was taken down. Here's to James, delighting me all these years on, and to Glasgow on your 850th anniversary
- "Where's the waen? He's fine, he's just in the communal lavvy jawbox hingin oot the windae..." Frightening early 1900s scene shows a brick turnpike stair tower added to the rear of a pre-1860s tenement to accomodate communal toilets, each with externally mounted jawbox sink. Child for scale 🤪
- Reposted by OssianLoreThe National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social is 100 years old this year. It is, I think, the only library in the world that was funded through biscuits (founding grant from Alexander Grant, who invented the McVities digestive biscuit).
- Reposted by OssianLoreAlexander Grant of McVitie's donated £100,000 (c. £5M in 2023) towards establishing the NLS by handing over a blank cheque to the committee to be filled in as it saw fit. He told his banker it was to be paid without question. A further £100,000 followed to fund construction of the building 🍪🏗️📚
- Reposted by OssianLoreGirodet's "Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes" of 1802. Ossian, an epic Scottsian poem by James Macpherson (1736-1796), caused a sensation when published on the cusp of the era of revolutions. It had a massive cultural impact. @ossianlore.bsky.social
