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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 1h

Thought I’d reshare this video given the posts about The Waverley’s Oak Anniversary ….🎂🥳 bsky.app/profile/walk...

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 2h

Moon emerging from low cloud 0936 hrs October 2nd 2026 - Glasgow, view looking West

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A wee bit of ghost signage, original woodwork and nice bit of carving on close lintel at 3 Carmunnock Road, Mount Florida, Glasgow

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

3 reminders of John MacLean (1879-1923) (1) plaque City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow (2) his gravestone in Eastwood New Cemetery (3) his memorial near MacArthur Street, Pollokshaws.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new addition to the Glasgow murals on the outside rear wall of The Lab pub in Springfield Court, Glasgow.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Posted this a couple of months ago - but things are looking worse ☹️ Looks as though attempts are still be made to remove Shona Kinloch’s ‘Proud As’ sculpture in Springfield Court, Glasgow. ! #PrincesSquare #Glasgow

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Harvest Moon in the west over Glasgow, 0725 hrs 28/9/26

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who are you lookin’ at !!!… Heilan’ Coo in Pollok Park, Glasgow, 21/9/26.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Opening ceremony for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, now in what was Old Cathcart Parish Church, Glasgow.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Echelon of Greylag Geese in a migratory skein flying over Mount Florida heading West 26/9/26

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Air Canada Airbus 330 London Heathrow to Calgary (AC851) flying over Glasgow on a beautiful autumn morning 26/9/26

Aircraft with twin contrails heading north over Glasgow in a clear blue sky

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Africa meets Australasia (25/9/26)

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

David Hamilton’s Hutchesons’ Hospital in Ingram Street, Glasgow, stands out against the blue of an early autumn sky (23/9/26)

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dawn breaking looking East along West George Street with the steels in place in the Queen Street renovation. 0711 hrs 26th February 2019.

From left to right - Queen St Railway Station with Structural Steel work in front. Then 2 workers in orange Network Rail hi-viz. Sun is rising over channel that is George St. Dome on north of City Chambers is in silhouette. Then the Merchants House.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Further to my earlier repost here is Glasgow’s Callanish ‘Stones’ - inspired by the stones and entitled ‘Steel Henge’ by Gerald Laing 1971 and installed in the University of Strathclyde Campus

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poem by American Writer and Poet Lydia H. Sigourney 1791–1865 on the Pearce St. side of the Pearce Institute in Govan. She visited Glasgow in 1840 meeting Dr Thomas Chalmers and David Stow and wrote about it in her 1842 book ‘Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands’

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just spotted in Glasgow Central Station - Wallace the Fire Dog he was adopted as a mascot for Glasgow Fire Brigade at the Central Fire Station and became a full time courageous working dog from 1894-1902. Wallace led fire engines to fires and guarded the tethered horses.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Found this photograph (c) (GCC, L,I&L) on theglasgowstory.com - showing a 25-ton coaling hoist loading into a ship's hold at South Quay, Prince's Dock, 1914. It's the amazing Thomson & Sandilands Govan Town Hall in the background that really caught my attention ! more see ALT

Black & White photograph of a coal hoist with rail coal wagons in front of it - with text UNITED on sides.

(1) Govan Town Hall - Govan became a Police Burgh in 1864. Its first municipal buildings were erected in Orkney Street in 1867, but by the end of the nineteenth century these had become inadequate for the expanding burgh. A much grander town hall was therefore commissioned. Designed by the Glasgow architectural practice Thomson & Sandilands, the building was constructed between 1897 and 1901 in an elaborate Beaux-Arts/Renaissance style, using red sandstone. The foundation stone was laid in September 1898, and the building was formally opened in October 1901 by Provost James Kirkwood. The cost was approximately £60,000.

(2) Hoist - was built by Sir W G Armstrong & Co and was the first of its kind in Glasgow when it was introduced in 1903. Each fully-laden coal wagon was attached in turn to the hoist at quay level, and raised to a height of 50 feet.

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Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

From "How to Be a Poet" by Wendell Berry, who died last week at 92. On Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow, in front of billboard screens and McDonalds that I don't think he would've approved of, but in front of Scottish Ballet, Tramway arts centre, and Secret Garden which hopefully he would.

Lines from from "How to Be a Poet" by Wendell Berry, written in foundational script calligraphy, by a pavement barrier at night, with advertising lights behind.

The poem in the foreground but zoomed out and unreadable, a car in the street at night behind

A view down the street at night with arts centre on the left and church

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In 1876 Glasgow physicist Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, patented this ingenious instrument for marine navigation: the azimuth mirror. I was lucky enough to win this in a recent auction. 1/4 @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social #kelvin #innovation #glasgow

Mahogany box with scientific instrument placed on top and an insert on usage instructions

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

May be droochit’ today but sometimes there’s a rainbow at the end! View North from St Andrew’s Suspension Bridge towards Glasgow Green taken 2 years ago.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎶Hot dog, jumping frog, at the Whitelee 🎶 … nearly trod on this wee chap near the Dunwan Burn in the Whitelee Wind Farm

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

‘Chicken of the Woods’ fungus on decaying tree in Linn Park, Glasgow. The mushroom is said to be edible (I would not try it!) and (surprise, surprise!) tastes like chicken. It is believed to be a source powerful inhibitors of staph bacteria.

Showing a layered fungus growing out of a decaying tree trunk with fern in foreground and trees behind

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Emily Dickinson’s ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ on a fence near Mill #19 on White Cart Water Walkway thanks 🙏 to @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Summer may have gone but the Peacock Butterflies 🦋 are still with us - just spotted this beauty in our garden

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Après le déluge 🤔 … (pic 5/9/25)

Photograph showing a rainbow 🌈 over the abandoned Mount Florida Bowling Green- below a sign for Noah property development

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lucky find in Bookshop in St Andrew's yesterday - a copy of Charles Oakley's 'Last Tram'. Written for Glasgow Corp. Transport Dept. on the closing of the Tramways 4/9/1962. Inside were an invite to the procession to the Rev. Dr. W J Baxter, dinner menu & clippings. 64 years ago today!

Pink leather bound book with gold embossed 'The Last Tram'. Author Charles A Oakley 1962. Published by the Corporation of the City of Glasgow (Transport Department).

Front cover of the invitation to the Last Tram Procession showing a black and white drawing of the Corporation Transport Department HQ on Bath St with 2 buses and a car outside.

Invite to Rev Dr W J Baxter - Rev. Dr William James Baxter (1884–1972), was a prominent Presbyterian minister associated with Dowanhill Church in Glasgow. He had retired at this time. He preached at the Scots Church in Melbourne 1932-33.

A schedule for the event starting at 6.00 pm at 0630 pm Trams leave Dalmarnock arriving at Albert Drive at 7.15 pm and reception at City Chambers 7.45 pm and Dinner 8.15pm

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

‘Two Birds.’ #Drawing by Maurits Cornelis Escher (1938) #art

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fans queuing outside the Albion Building, Ingram Street, Glasgow (31/8/26) #monday #punday

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A room with a view - Springfield Court, Glasgow

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ghost Signs - Argyle Street, Finnieston, Glasgow, 23/8/26. Not sure about the meaning of the right-hand panel 🤔 !

Closed shop front graffiti on lower level - two panels above - left J Murray Newsagent, Tobaconist, Confectioner and right all in upper case private, service, room

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The White Cart from the MacQuisten Bridge, Shawlands, Glasgow (21/8/26). Built in 1832 and remodelled in 1907 the bridge is named after engineer Peter MacQuisten who also designed the Dalmarnock & Rutherglen Bridges.

View (West) through two pink granite balustrades of river with trees and housing/flats in background

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just look what the postie delivered 👍👌

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Great to see the scaffolding removed from another Glasgow building - Honeyman & Keppie’s (with a little help from CR Macintosh!) 1890’s Glasgow Herald building aka The Lighthouse and soon to be a Net Zero Innovation hub with work scheduled to start in October 2026.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Welcome to the Gotham Brauhuas/Bank 🦇 🧍‍♂️

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

'The Folly' in Rouken Glen Park, East Renfrewshire. Often mistaken for the remains of the Rookend Mill it was constructed in 19 C to hide a pump supplying water to Thornliebank House from the Auldhouse Burn.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Giant anthemion finials are such a distinctive feature of Campbell Reid and Wingate's warehouse on Bell Street, Glasgow. Built 1914-21. They are a poignant reminder of the Great War as Wingate died on the Western Front on 13/10/1915 - this would have been his last work.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Steeplejacks working on Campbell Douglas & Sellars 1872/3 Crosshill Queen’s Park Church (14/8/26)

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Plaque commemorating the site of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s 4th and final church design - the Queen’s Park United Presbyterian Church, Langside Road, Govanhill. Built in 1869 it was eventually renamed Queen’s Park St George’s in 1929. It was destroyed by a German incendiary bomb in 1943.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nature’s roadside bounty - cobnuts and brambles on the pavement at the Patterton Roundabout, East Renfrewshire

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Langside, Glasgow 1850 hrs 12/8/26

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For sale, used once only, can be adapted for TIG welding, guaranteed till 2090 😉

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Managed to wee-ist of looks through the Glasgow clouds at the eclipse (time about 1845 hrs - location Mount Florida) … ! better to have fought and lost and not have fought at all ! (c Flashing Blade 😉)

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