Category: Churches
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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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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…