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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My records say built 1859, then rebuilt 1864 when it burned down. Built partly for Inglis & Wakefield, Calico Printers at Busby. Alexander Miller Jnr of said firm was a Thomson fan. Thomson had remodelled Busby House for his father, and Alex Jnr moved next door to Thomson at 2 Moray Place!

Busby House, demolished 1969. Manager's house at Busby printworks. Image: Gerald Blaikie

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Was up there at #CamphillDig26 for the open day today, though they welcome visitors during the week too. Great stuff!

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Went to lend a hand at #CamphillDig26 today. While the team have yet to determine if the site's residents were Iron Age, Roman or Mediaeval, we now at least know that they were regular users of Glasgow's tram network. Congrats to fellow #SGHET volunteer Dougie for finding it in our pit.

Red, possibly Bakelite, token with Glasgow Coat of Arms, and "Glasgow Corporation Tramways"

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Exciting times in Queens Park. They have an open day on Saturday if you're interested to see progress.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Shame, my favourite ferry in Scotland.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

An even rarer 19th century feature would be Chappui's light reflectors. They reflected sunlight through windows into dark offices, before electric light became the norm. #glasgow #streetfurniture #strathbungo #astonvilla

A London back alley with Chappui’s reflector installed. Mounted at 45 degrees in the outside of the window. Source: ianvisits.co.uk

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you thought the new website for the British Newspaper Archive was crap, wait till you try taking a train in Scotland this morning. Name the last time a new app/website was better than the old one.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I got a job in a radiology department, but they could see right through me.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My granddad was in the Royal Marines Light Infantry in WW1, I think in Scapa Flow, & possibly manning a shore battery. #ScapaFlow #Strathbungo

Man on bleak (Orkney?) beach in Souwester, with dog.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Snap, Morrisons in Crossmyloof Glasgow. I think it's installed back to front or up side down, and too close to the wall, but to be honest I have no idea how it is supposed to be used.

Weird bike rack, with bikes locked either side, bike rack itself is unusable.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Didn't realise until recently that famed 602 (City of Glasgow) AuxAF Squadron had its HQ in Coplaw Street, next to the old Third Lanark Drill Hall. Here's a potted history of 602 and the building, now sadly lost.

Two-storey rendered building with pitched roof and ventilator on top. Two-storey stone portico with RAF badge over door, and another wrapped around the corner of the building.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Another #Strathbungo #househistory. This time we're at the former 25 Princes Square, better known now as 55 Marywood Square. The first resident was Robert Murdoch, a mason who built Cragie St police & fire station, and the next Robert More, a maker & retailer of fine silk gowns on Buchanan Street.

Blond sandstone end terrace house with bay windows, and a wonky Victorian era lamp post outside, cobbled lane entrance to the side

Purple silk velvet Simspon, Hunter & Young dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves, from the Glasgow Museums Collection. Robert More was a partner in the firm.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Had fun on the Historic Strathbungo walk yesterday, until the downpour at the very end. Thanks to Cameron Winton and SHGET.com for supporting the event. Got a full turnout too. Next one will probably be Doors Open Day in September; follow "South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust" on Eventbrite.

Me spouting nonsense in my classy BungoBungoBungo T-shirt

Me spouting more nonsense outside 1 Moray Place, home of Alexander Greek Thomson, and wondering who nicked the entrance gate (The council, 1894, apparently).

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As a former radiologist, I am well aware that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in November 1895, and by March 1896, the Glasgow Royal Infirmary had already opened the world's first X-ray department. X-rays caught on really fast. What I didn't know was that by January 1897, you could also...

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just discovered that Moray Place used to be gated; there was a gate outside Alexander Greek Thomson's house at 1 Moray Place on two maps of 1893. So that adds to the previous discovery that Regent Park Square was gated too. #strathbungo #glasgowhistory #alexandergreekthomson #morayplace

Entrance to Moray Place, with gate marked. Drinking fountain included just to wind up regulars. OS Town Plan 1893 (NLS Maps)

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Argh! The myth that will never die! Not sure where this one originated, but there's so many of these on Facebook, etc, spouting the same nonsense. This house was built in 1874 and that's the chimney flue! There's a chimney above it, bit of a clue.

Image from social media with myth about window tax. Sandstone house with symetrical window openings either side of the porch. Ones on the left are infilled in sandstone, not to avoid window tax as stated, but to hide the chimney flue.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Came here to mention this upcoming walk, but it's sold out already!. Ah well, you just need to follow SGHET for the next one, at Doors Open Day in September. SGHET has other events too, including a running history tour of Pollokshields.

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

📣 Magnificent 11 Heritage & Environment Walk 🌿🏦 📆 Sat 6th June 10am-2.30pm ~ free but booking required 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magnificen... 💚 Explore the Southside's manicured & wilder fringes on a half-day walk... history, heritage & nature galore with panoramic views of #Glasgow en route 🌳🪿🌺⛅ 👣

Flyer for the walk with a photo of the historic Ha'penny Bridge spanning the White Cart river in Linn Park. Built circa 1811-1820, it is the oldest known complete iron bridge in greater Glasgow. The distinctive decorative pierced iron work, painted entirely white, give the structure a light and elegant appearance, accentuated by its pierced saltire lattice-work, Greek motifs, gothic spandrels and distinctive 'ha'penny' roundels.

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Superb news the site of First Hampden - the world's 1st pitch built w/ the intention to host international matches & where the modern game of passing football was pioneered - has gained listed status✨🎉 blog.historicenvironment.scot/2026/05/firs... Our blog on its history 👉 sghet.com/project/firs...

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First Hampden - SGHET

In Use 1873-1884 10 Kingsley Ave, Crosshill Hampden Bowling Club sits on the 1st Hampden Park. This fact was lost for over 113 years. Yes – Scotland didn’t know where its true home of Scottish Footb...

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I tend to ignore the theories as to the origin of the moniker Strathbungo, as none are convincing. It turns out one of the most prevalent, that Bungo is a sort of corruption of St Mungo, was made up by some shit-stirrer from Govanhill. This from the Southern Press 1895:

A Govanhill man claims to be author of the “Strath-Mungo” explanation of the word “Strathbungo,” and feels somewhat proud that his creation is now more popular than any of the other explanations. His self-satisfaction is justifiable when one considers the long start given to the others — both the corruption of the milkman’s angry exclamation “tak’ the straw oot the bung-hole” and a suggestion that an old burn in the district was known as the “Bungo.”

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A house history for 21 Marywood Square, formerly known as 42 Princes Square. Built by James Robertson in 1884, though he then went bust. First occupant John Andersons was from a family of printers, although his uncle had jacked it in to go to sea, and became Captain of Brunel's SS Great Eastern.

The Bailie caricature of Robert Anderson, letterpress printer; John's father. Source: TheGlasgowStory

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Curiously I was reading (and writing) about the Swedenborgians only recently. In the report of one of their meetings they implied they didn't have any proper churches before the 1880s, though I found one in Paisley (opened 1860, closed 2019), and the Edinburgh is older still.

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Norwich Cycling Campaign @norwichcycling.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Why don't cyclists use the cycle paths? PS, don't forget to vote on Thusday.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Built by Andrew McIntyre, who bought the land in 1880, but it wasn't ready until 1886. McIntyre was previously a gold digger present at the "birth of Australian democracy", when his jailing for rioting led to an armed insurrection known as the Eureka Stockade.

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Andrew McIntyre, builder - and father of Australian democracy? - Bygone Bungo

How Strathbungo builder, Andrew McIntyre, got mixed up in riot, insurrection and the fight for democracy in Australia.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Thursday week at The Deep End if you're interested. Book through Eventbrite as per below.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The story of 12 Marywood Square, Strathbungo, featuring a vanishing jeweller, anti-German riots in Cincinnati, the Swedenborgian Church, the grease that launched the Queen Mary, ironmongery & Aston Villa, and tea shops to rival Miss Cranston. #Strathbungo #househistory #glasgow

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12 Marywood Square - Bygone Bungo

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A new house history – 6 Queen Square, Strathbungo. Home to two Reverends, a doctor, a manufacturer of dog-eared spikes (they sound a bit crap, but essential for railways apparently), then for 60 years a lawyer’s family. #househistory #glasgow #strathbungo

Georgian-style blond sandstone 3-storey end of terrace houses, 4 & 6 Queen Square

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The perils of AI slop in a thread. Couldn't agree more.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

These are the deeds for a house in Queen Square, #Strathbungo, a particularly complete set, including wills and financial records. While not always easy to decipher, they provide a unique insight into the history of a house, and a neighbourhood. #deeds #househistory #glasgow #history #architecture

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Just saw my first Strathbungo hedgehog 🦔. So Glaswegian, it was drinking a can of Magners Cider.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is hilarious. Everyone to Kenmure Street has a lot to answer for 😂

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just discovered this delightful view of Queens Park from c 1913, with the flagpole in the centre background. Noise is shown coming from the bandstand to the right. The Victoria infirmary is visible to the left. The large house in the centre... #Glasgow #Langside #History #VictoriaInfirmary

"Langside" drawn by TCF Brotchie for his "The Battlefields of Scotland". Fileds in foreground, recreation ground with footballers in mid ground, Camphill and flagpole in distance. Victoria Infirmary just visible to left, large house in centre. Music illustrated blaring from the bandstand, as rays projecting into the sky.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tell shitty City Property to sling their hook. Viva Trongate103! www.change.org/p/save-trong...

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Mrs McIntyre was Janet Auld (1852-1916), the wife of Archibald McIntyre. Her father-in-law was Andrew McIntyre, who built the terrace. In 1851 Andrew took his new wife and infant son Archibald half way round the world to join the Aussie Gold Rush, and live in a tent. #Strathbungo

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My research might have been a bit quicker had I noticed it says underneath "Successor to WJ Moffat" 🤦😁

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A new ghost sign revealed in Strathbungo yesterday, as the old Marchtown shop front at 741 Pollokshaws Road is replaced. It is for K Scatchard, Chemists & Opticians. #strathbungo #glasgow #ghostsign #glasgowghostsigns #glasgowhistory

Partly dismantled shopfront reveals faded sign reading Chemist, K Scatchard, Opticians

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The annual unsystematic selection of pics from Strathbungo Window Wanderland. 🧵

Window display: birbs above and cats below.

Window display: possibly the Great and Mighty Oz?

Window display: someone climbing down a ladder.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Just started reading Cory Doctorow's book. How topical. #enshittification

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is outrageous. Council took public arts money to set this up, encouraged organisations in at affordable rents, then pulled the rug from under them.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

John Baillie Hamilton was a Glasgow-trained veterinary surgeon who lived at 57 Marywood Square in Strathbungo. He devised a novel way of reducing the suffering of horses. He electrified the Glasgow Corporation Tramways.

Portrait of JB Hamilton in later years, grey hair, neatly trimmed moustache, suit. He was general manager of Leeds trams for 23 years, until his death

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

As Rutherglen begins its 900 year celebrations, I note 57 Marywood Square, Strathbungo, was home to William Murray, owner of the immense Caledonian Pottery, once Rutherglen's largest employer, but now buried under the M74. A new house history on BygoneBungo. #Rutherglen900 #Strathbungo #Pottery

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57 Marywood Square, the former 26 Moray Place - Bygone Bungo

The residents of 57 Marywood Square; the Caledonian Pottery, how a vet electrified the Glasgow trams, and selling Welsh slate to the Scots.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Love a bit of local history. If you count Canada as local.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Why do we even have these in Strathbungo's streets?

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My final #AustraliaDay tale is a brand-new discovery; how a Strathbungo builder, Andrew McIntyre, became a key figure in a riot, insurrection and the birth of democracy in Australia.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Matilda Terrace and Titwood Place are two tenements that face each other across Nithsdale Road, #Strathbungo. Both have strong connections to #Australia. Matilda Terrace, as it was originally, houses watering holes Tabacs (ex The Bungo) and Bossa (ex Sammy Dows). #Australiaday #Glasgow #Sydney

Matilda Terrace, Nithsdale Road. A stern long blond sandstone terrace with a pub at this end, formerly Sammy Dows, here as Zinfandel (2022), but now Bossa.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Today is #AustraliaDay, (or Invasion Day if you prefer) so coming up, three #Strathbungo links to #Australia. The third is entirely new. Firstly, at 24 Moray Place were RA Robertson, sugar refining manufacturer & builder of Britain’s first diesel engine, and his Australian wife, Elizabeth Ritter.

Man admiring Britain's first, and the world's third, operating diesel engine. Now in the Anson Engine Museum, Poynton.

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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I spotted an old advert on the excellent Scottish Brick History website that prompted me to dig into the origins of Nithsdale Drive and the ring of tenements that includes Salisbury Quadrant and March Street Police Station. Building started in 1880. #Strathbungo #McIntyre #glasgow #architecture

Single-deck trolleybus passes in front of the curved tenement Salisbury Quadrant. With permission of Charles Bilette

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