Category: Architecture
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Glasgow’s Eighteenth Century Tobacco Merchant’s House
I found myself in Glasgow the other day with a few mins on my hands before my train….What do I do? Visit the Eighteenth century Tobacco Merchant’s House, of course. It’s just a minute walk from where Hollywood likes to film disaster scenes for blockbuster movies. Read on.
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Auchtermuchty in 1732 – The Greatest Century is Everywhere
I took a photo of my family recently, a quick snap on my mobile phone after lunch, and there in the background…YES! YOU GUESSED IT: The Eighteenth century, right there, waiting for someone to notice. We were in Auchtermuchty, we’d stuffed our faces at The Boar’s Head, and were saying…
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Italian Balloonist Visits Glasgow 240 Years Ago
We went for lunch in Glasgow recently and I made a secret plan (secret from my wife) to park up in the Merchant City and walk to the nearby St Andrew’s in the Square church. I knew it was from here that Italian Vincenzo Lunardi, one of the new breed…
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Show me a Sign: an Eighteenth Century Bridge
Day 6 (Monday 24 July) I’ve driven across this bridge a few times, and always remember the twin ‘needles’ at both ends. Then I noticed a sign on the south side of the bridge, reading: “Hyndford Bridge 1773”. (That year’s featured a lot in this blog lately…it being the year…
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Hamilton Old Parish Church. 18th Century
The Eighteenth century is all around us. All history is, of course, and usually the further back in time you go the harder you have to look for evidence of any particular period. So, what Eighteenth century things, books, people etc could I see over the course of a week’s…
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