markrustbucket.bsky.social
My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC
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And me. La Gare du Nord- its columns were made in Glasgow.
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The 1970s pyramid was known as "Hyde's Folly" after its creator Eammon Hyde, planner at Lothian Regional Council, so Colin McLean told me (both being successive Directors at Scottish Mining Museum). Yet it has proved its worth as a viewpoint.
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The initial 3 engines in service are imported from England however: La Flèche, Le Stephenson and l'Elephant. The first domestic loco, Le Belge, leaves the Cockerill works at Seraing in December 1835. Despite the speed, "one experiences no difficulty in breathing," the French visitor reports.
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Clive and Carsten have scraped the bottom of the barrel, or are there some gems to discover?
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Betty Willsher books.google.co.uk/books/about/...
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Currently 60 comments on the planning portal - 38 in support and 22 objections.
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I would call in from time to time and soak in the atmosphere of the place. Andy and then Robin would tolerate me. There were schemes approved for the 2 tall mill buildings that are in separate ownership, not yet delivered. The big weaving shed to the south was split into business units by SBC.
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Yes, I heard that from Robin Elliot. A very atmospheric place producing lovely cloth.
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Forest Mill: handloom shop on the right, spinning mill on the left, 1838, waterwheel house further left- hopefully Andy Elliot is still weaving in there, as in these photos. Yes indeed.
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First up the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum... I actually yelped when I walked into the cloister 😍 100 percent worth queueing 45 mins in the 🌧️
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Remember: that is where the Nazi regime ended—it is absolutely not where it began. It began with the undermining of the rule of law; with authoritarianism; with Gleichschaltung; with attacks on universities and knowledge; with smaller-scale persecution of vulnerable minorities etc.
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My Romanian friend says: "Nicușor Dan is great - it's a big thing he got to be in the second place ... he is the real needed change. He started his political career fighting for heritage" and against the corruption which resulted in that particular tower. I think the demolition is only AI.
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Its an art work where the #Coalie is getting a make-over. Morton's first patent slip hauled ships from the water here. See @threadinburgh.scot thread. On the south bank is the footing for a crane that brought locomotives as kits from Newcastle into Hawthorn's engineering shops.
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Eh thocht it wis Hillhouse!
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The battery on my lap top died just as you got started so please will you send me your ppt? It sounded good once I came back in on the 'phone. Thanks!
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or some cherubs from Shanghai www.cdtwn.com/index.php?m=...
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You can also read more about the proposed listing of the Fairfield Technical Office Annexe in the @glasgowtimes.bsky.social 👇🏻
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2505933...
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Sue Mowat openlibrary.org/books/OL8304...
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EdinPhoto is a good web site by Peter Stubbs. But I think the stone building there might be in Quality St/ Maritime Lane. Bonnington Bond is mainly brick, with one stone building. Associated distilleries were also brick in Queensferry, stone at the NB. scotchwhisky.com/whiskypedia/...
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The site started as a sugar refinery built in 1865, a floor maltings (for McEwans beer) to the south and then both became a whisky bond with a big new warehouse added to the north. I did the listing, negotiated the consents for change and am chuffed with the result. Glad you like it!
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And those apartments seen from the north, west and the Water of Leith. The whisky warehouse was built with a steel frame, part retained, in 1908.
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Here they are being created in the 1990s inside a VAT69 whisky bond.