Designer and coder and all that into places and spaces mainly local, ancient or modernist. Author of the definitive account of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival.
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The first full account of the event which changed how Glasgow is seen by the world, and how it sees itself: a lavishly-illustrated 200-page hardback, available here.
‘Superb… a proper landmark Glasgow publication’ (Rory Olcayto)
gardenfestivalbook.com/
Really exciting stuff from Kenny here. (I'm now rather chuffed to have held this object when it was fairly fresh out of the ground.) And like the man says, I expect more fascinating revelations are yet to emerge from this excavation...
A new #UrbanPrehistory blog post on #Glasgow deep time - the discovery of a probable fragment of Neolithic polished stone axe at the Camphill excavations this summer was a rare & significant discovery in a city of few axes...@EddieCStewart @ArchScot
theurbanprehistorian.wordpre…
Rather nice Garden Festival postcard handed to me after a talk last weekend: Central Regional Council promoting their 'Heart of Scotland' station exhibit. The station building itself is now in its third location as @Mus_Scot_Rways at Bo'ness' Birkhill Station.
Suffolk's Haward Horological also helped with the Garden Festival's McVitie's Clock. (Good to see Charles A's involvement with the Pollok clock acknowledged here, too.)
Finally made it to Beamish - and gosh, I love this utterly confected landscape just as much as I expected.
Lex Lamb retweeted
Great to see copies of @LambLex’s 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival book out in the wild aka the Kelvingrove Museum shop.
Also some GGF artefacts on display in the Glasgow gallery. @AtGF1988
ALT Lex Lamb’s Glasgow Garden Festival book
ALT Glasgow Garden Festival uniform and book on display in the Kelvingrove Museum shop
Really enjoyed this. Thanks again to @AThomsonSociety
Morning!
At 1pm today, and at the Mitchell Library, you’d be very welcome to hear me speak on ‘Why the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival matters, and how I came to write a book about it’ for @AThomsonSociety. There are a few tickets left, I am told.
alexanderthomsonsociety.org.…
Got tickets for Blue Oyster Cult at the Concert Hall. (Last time I saw them was at the Renfrew Ferry, which seemed a really odd venue for a stereotypically 70s stadium American rock behemoth.)
Morning!
At 1pm today, and at the Mitchell Library, you’d be very welcome to hear me speak on ‘Why the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival matters, and how I came to write a book about it’ for @AThomsonSociety. There are a few tickets left, I am told.
alexanderthomsonsociety.org.…
The story of Edward Hornel and the old bloke's cup and ring mark/rock art hallucinations is new to me. There's a few possible sites near the Kirkcudbrightshire hamlet in question on rockart.scot, too. From Hartrick's 'A Painter's Pilgrimage Through Fifty Years'...
Welll, this was a film that really turned out to be radically different from what one would expect. Really very odd, and I rather liked it. Not many laughs, but. youtube.com/watch?v=4uZWlKGR…
Was once in a pet shop in Whiteinch. Asked what those small creatures in the vivarium were and was told ‘they’re jist wee Anoles’. Of course, I kept asking ‘yes, but what kind of animals?’ and it all became very frustrating for both parties (not the Anoles, who were fine).
Seen them three times. I wish I’d seen them then, though age has mellowed their approach beautifully.
Dear Glasgow gardening/building preservation Twitter: Wall Lettuce (Mycelis muralis) - I'm finding it everywhere these days, growing out of walls etc., yet I cannot remember it being a thing here until a few years ago. Is it new to us? It's a right pest.
