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Discovering Glasgow, it’s hidden Countryside, Southside, West End and beyond. Celebrating the City www.walktalktours.uk Insta: @walktalktours1 T/X @tours_talk

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Looking down the Clyde from the Riverside Museum at sunset this evening. #glasgow #sunset #glasgowtoday #riversidemuseum
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Beautiful picture!
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Now that’s a Beemer … from Χανιά/Chania August 2024
A small/bubble car red wings white body in a cobbled square - it’s a BMW Isetta of 1959
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/walk... a similar aspect from Prospecthill Road from back in July
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Canal Rocks, Yallingup, Western Australia, late September 2025
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looks like the old Brewdog pub In Hutcheson Street, Merchant City is being reborn as a new bar 99Hutcheson
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Glasgow West End Today @glasgowwestend.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scotland’s first museum dedicated to the art and history of stained glass is to open within the former Lansdowne Church, celebrating the pioneering work of artist Alf Webster. #Kelvinbridge #Glasgow www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/news/scotlan...
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Scotland’s first stained glass museum to open in West End
Former Lansdowne Church made accessible for close-up window tours
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tasty and scary - but like pufferfish sushi 😉
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Glasgow and 5km from City Centre … (pic 28/9/26)
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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
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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
Oktoberfest hits the Southside - It’s @clockworkglasgow time
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a small world … but you wouldn’t want to paint it 😉
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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 · 26/09/2026
That and the Brythonic/Brittonic language 😉 youtu.be/RmgiIBSrXUw?...
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Scottish place-names: Northern Brittonic
YouTube video by School of Humanities Glasgow University
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
22 July 2026 - Home of Team Wales during the Commonwealth Games
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And not AI !
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hope you don’t mind but I also reposted that in a reply on the T/X a few days ago …Harvie’s Dyke versus Allan’s Pen … there’s only one way to find out FIGHT (c) H Hill (Excellent article on AP - newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/all… )
newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com
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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 · 23/09/2026
Inspiration behind the naming of this book
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A valuable addition to the Glasgow’s mapping - thanks to Neil Scott neilscott.substack.com www.neil-scott.com/plaques/
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Plaques & Statues of Glasgow
A map of the plaques, statues and public art of Glasgow, drawn from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
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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 · 21/09/2026
Cheers
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just came across this interesting resource developed by UCL. Type your surname and find out where it occurs most often named.publicprofiler.org?utm_source=c...
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named - Map your surname across the UK
named - Map your surname across the UK. Find out where your surname is unusually popular, or where we think you might have met your partner.
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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 · 19/09/2026
Think you needed ‘a bigger boat’ 😉
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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
Interesting comparison with the finials on the bannisters in Holmwood House
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cute but practical!
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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
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This pilot fund, announced last month, may hopefully provide at least a partial solution www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new... - its similar to the Places of Worship Renewal Fund that Historic England operates
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Pilot fund launched to support Scotland's historic places of worship
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has announced a new pilot fund to help Scotland's listed places of worship carry out vital repairs and conservation work.
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was lucky in 2024. There is the illustrated talk this year - www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/glas...
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Doors Open Days | Mothballed Masterpiece
Mothballed Masterpiece: The Past and Future of St Vincent Street Church with Fiona Sinclair - Talks Programme
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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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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Closer view of the organ and the gallery looking south. Organ in yellow pine, designed by architects Watson & Salmond
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yup 👍
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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yup and still working 😊
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