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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 6h

Just back in from a buckshee dinner at Sloan's in the Argyll Arcade/Morrison's Court, which has launched a new upstairs fine dining room, called 'The Merchants'; food/service/staff/ambience all en-point. Etching: Morrison's Court, early 1900s, by Glasgow-born artist Thomas Bonar Lyon (1873-1955)

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 15h

A knock at the door, and my poor trauchled postie hands over my latest heavyweight purchase, featuring works by 48 Glasgow Art Club members. Selected highlights to follow, once I've emerged from 1881.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 18h

This week, Frank's taking us to the flicks - and no the 'fancy flicks'! We're off doon a single stair to the Eglinton Electreum. Fleapit or fire-trap? You decide... Pic/text: 'The City That Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nice, today, to bump into my late art teacher mum's old friend, David Ross Warrillow. David paints remarkably detailed still-lifes, but for a few years, in the 1980s, he did a brilliant series of tenement paintings. Pic: Corner of Henderson St and Mount St, Maryhill (The Fleming Collection).

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Venturing out to view these today ahead of auction; bound copies of William Heath's The Glasgow Looking-Glass; or, Mirror of Mirth. A caricature magazine satirising the social and political life of 1820s Scotland, it is popularly remembered as the "world first comic". I may even put a bid in...

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Playing out with this; had to blow the dust off it! Slow pace but magic Northern Soul. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Sj...

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Ray Pollard - The Drifter . ( Northern Soul )

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some weekends, you give thanks for yer mates, yer life choices, good and bad, and all the food. Some very good roast potatoes today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1yr...

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Psychic TV - Godstar

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Opened #OTD in 1831, Scotland's first passenger railway, the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway. The line was originally run as a goods service, funded by Charles Tennant & Co manufacturers, with horse-drawn coal trucks operating on the 4ft 6in wide Scotch Gauge line. Pic: David Octavius Hill

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ain't no shame in askin' for mercy. Recorded the month and year I was born; the Cannonball! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mY...

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Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Live)

YouTube video by Cannonball Adderley - Topic

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Let us haste to Kelvingrove... 'The building, of pinkish stone, is a large and elaborate specimen of the Wedding-Cake style of architecture.' - William Power 'The Face of Glasgow' (1938). Pic: Robert Eadie

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

By the time I met this cool Fifer I knew him. He knew me. We went to lunch - him off the bottle, me hittin it; a good pal. I take good folk to good lunches - you pass the love and the stories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_p...

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Rab Noakes - Mississippi (Bob Dylan cover) - Glasgow, Celtic Connections 2012

YouTube video by MissOhio1000

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tonight's delicious walk-home companion - mon amis, la lune... Add music, and retire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsvX...

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh dear, I appear to have hit the 'buy' button once again...

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A very quiet day on Byres Road, with the architects Campbell Douglas & Stevenson's 1862 Kelvinside Free Church - today's Oran Mor - standing sentinel like, with Buckingham Terrace keeking over its shoulder. My thanks to muso mate, and Prince o' Partick, Allan Tall, for sharing this wonderful image.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A beautiful splash of colour for the first day of autumn - the back page of The Glasgow Herald guide to the attractions on offer at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park. I love how the artist has made all the visitors - men and women - look like Hollywood movie stars.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stand up to pull the curtains and there's an almost full moon shining back at me, with my neighbours' windows glowing like a giant advent calendar. Happy autumn equinox.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Glaswegians didn't need to go to Grenada to visit the Alhambra, they just had to walk along Wellington Street. This week finds Frank bemoaning the sad loss of what was the city's most modern and sophisticated theatre.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A gig, acoustic, on a Monday night; must I? Aye, I bloody must - old Dundee mates, and the merch stall turned into the old Westport Bar's 'Murder patter corner.' Good to see old cronies, open.spotify.com/artist/0VJsB...

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The Swiss Family Orbison

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nice to see actor/musician David McCallum get a blue plaque on his childhood home, but Kersland Street is in the heart of Hillhead, not Partick. Pic: John Doe

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another nice speaking invite, to interview muso mate Joe Whyte at the launch of his memoir, Chaos From Cash. Fun kicks off at 1pm, at McChuills, on Saturday October 3. Come for blethers, beats, bonhomie and beers - go home with a book... louderthanwar.com/chaos-from-c...

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Chaos From Cash: by Joe Whyte

Joe Whyte tells his tales from the barstool of being a teenage punk in Airdrie to playing in a great Johnny Cash tribute band for 20 years

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A nice addition outside Glasgow Uni's Advanced Research Centre, a clock honouring the International Workers of the World - the Wobblies. The hands are clogs because the French for clogs is 'sabots' - the root of 'sabotage'. Throw one of them into the works, and the machine grinds to a halt.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Home, feet up, Doors Open Days duties done for another year. The sun even came out to play today; a nice change from yesterday's intermittent monsoons. www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk

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Explore 150+ free buildings, tours, talks and performances across Glasgow, 17-20 Sept 2026. Discover what's behind the city's most fascinating doors.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A rare Saturday night in for me, as I'll need all my wits tomorrow as I try to keep up with my 98-year-old artist pal, Tommy McGoran. www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/events/lost-...

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Lost Glasgow In Conversation With Artist Thomas McGoran Talk + Book Signing

Please note this is not a free event - tickets are £11.70 each.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Many thanks to all who braved the blustery showers to come and hear me blether last night at Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival. I'm back on duty tomorrow, having a natter with my 98-year-old artist pal, Tommy McGoran. www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/events/lost-...

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Lost Glasgow In Conversation With Artist Thomas McGoran Talk + Book Signing

Please note this is not a free event - tickets are £11.70 each.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Holy moly - home to Sky Arts - the free one - to Portishead, in NY, with a 30-piece orchestra. Wow! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJyF...

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Humming - Portishead Roseland NYC (proper audio)

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't usually go near AI but, tonight, I saw it in action. As I approached the corner, I heard the tall one say: 'Wheesht! Somebody's coming...' and something terrifying about deleted search histories! Of course, as soon as I turned the corner - not a word...

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tonight, I'll be taking the audience out dancing, looking back at the venues where we waltzed, foxtrotted, and twisted the nights away. And, here's where the city's dancing days started,Burrell's Lane, where dancemaster Daniel Burrell set up Glasgow's first dance academy and ballroom.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Girding my loins, and other essential organs, ahead of giving this evening's sold-out opening talk of the Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival - the 11th year I've had the privilege of doing so. Here's me, bricking it, ahead of my baptism of fire back in 2015.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wings of Desire... It's July 1948, and 20-year-old civil engineer Douglas Graham is casting an eye across Glasgow from the roof of the City Chambers, while taking a self-photo - pinging the shutter with his left hand..

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tomorrow's teatime fun*. Think it's 11 or 12 years I've been doing this nonsense, and still so many stories to tell. *Note to self: eat early, before you go out... tinyurl.com/yfcxtykh

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'Ye dancin'? Talk with Lost Glasgow (Sold Out)

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another one bites the dust! This week, Frank tells us about the final curtain call at the Grand Theatre in Cowcaddens - oh yes he does... Pic/text: 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981)

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