Glasgow city at night by Tony

1 bedroom flat for sale on Gray Street, Glasgow

Asking price: £149,000

Sold price: £205,500

Under The Shell by The Urban Hermit Via Flickr: A first step back in to film photography after nearly 20 years. Camera - Olympus Mju Zoom Film - Long expired Kodak Ultra 400 Processing & scanning - Gulabi Photo Lab Post Processing - Photoscape X

After years of walking through this overpass, still captivated by it 📸 #glasgow #discoverglasgow #tunnel #overpass #finnieston #morningcommute (at Glasgow, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnjOLKnK9_M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

My diet for the last three weeks has resembled that of Buddy the Elf and what better way to finish it off with Nutella laden french toast with banana, strawberries and blueberries at Number 1082 Coffeehouse. First time i’ve been here and the food was excellent, big menu with lots of choice and the service was great. Perfect brunch spot in Finnieston. #glasgowfoodblog #glasgowfoodreview #westendglasgow #glasgowfoodies #glasgowfoodreview #finnieston #nutella #brunchglasgow #brunchspot #scottishfoodie #scottishfoodbible (at Number 1082) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnK2HQDDUZf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#dukesbar #finnieston #glasgow (at Glasgow, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiS3L1tjgGj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

joker 2019 is written by someone who's never seen joker in any media ever and paul dano riddler is literally just some guy from 4chan

On December 30th 1899 the Albion Motor Company was established.

When we think of car manufacturers nowadays, even going back to the likes of Linwood and the Hillman Imp in the 60's was made and designed by Rootes, an English company, Albion was all Scottish, from the people who formed the company, to the workers on the floor and those that bought the products

The Albion Motor Company was founded, initially with seven employees, at Finnieston Street in Glasgow, the firm was started by Thomas Blackwood Murray and Norman Osbourne Fulton and initially produced both cars and commercial vehicles, switching to the production of military vehicles during World War One.

The firm was originally named the Albion Motor Car Company and re-named Albion Motors in 1930. In the 50's, the firm amalgamated with Leyland Motors.

The firm's first car, built in 1900, was a cart powered by an eight horse-power engine, with solid tyres. By 1915, the company had five different models in production. The motor trade must have ran in the blood of Fulton's family, his cousin, George Johnston is credited with building Scotland's first car in 1895, called the "mo-car" It was also the first to be built in the United Kingdom.

Albion Motors switched to mainly commercial vehicles production in the years before World War I, producing trucks and buses, including bus models Valiant, Victor and Viking.

In 1957, Lancashire-based Leyland Motors acquired Albion Motors as the first step in an expansionist policy, which saw famous names like Scammell, A.E.C. and Guy succumb. Albion Motor’s name was changed, rather ignominiously, to Leyland (Glasgow) and later, in 1987, to Leyland-DAF.

1993 saw a management buy-out that brought Albion Automotive, as it then became known, back into Scottish ownership. Since 1998, Albion Automotive has been a subsidiary of American Axle & Manufacturing, and manufactures axles, driveline systems, chassis systems, crankshafts and chassis components out of its premises on South Street, which it took over from the neighbouring Coventry Ordnance Works in 1969.

Today, you can visit the Biggar, & Upper Clydesdale Museum and see the biggest collection of Albions in the world, also check the website here https://www.biggarmuseumtrust.co.uk/albion-car-comes.../....

Storia Di Musica #291 - Deacon Blue, Raintown, 1987

Lo spunto per le storie settembrine me lo ha dato un aneddoto simpatico sugli Steely Dan, protagonisti dell'ultima storia di Agosto. Una delle loro canzoni più famose, Deacon Blues, da Aja (il loro capolavoro del 1977) fece un viaggio emozionale fino in Scozia, dove un giovane ragazzo si appassionava alla musica, soprattutto a quel pop così sofisticato, pieno di stratificazioni sonore, piccoli gioielli musicali incastonati nelle melodie, e immensa classe esecutiva. Ricky Ross si chiama quel giovane ragazzo, che dopo che a Dundee viene licenziato da professore precario delle scuole secondarie, si trasferisce a Glasgow, dove decidere di mettere su un gruppo. Prima trova il batterista, Dougie Vipond, poi un bravissimo pianista, James Prime, un chitarrista, Graeme Kelling, e una corista, Carol Moore. Le prime esibizioni sono incoraggianti, ma la Moore decide di mettersi da parte. Ross si ricorda che aveva sentito ad un provino, improvvisato in Bath Street, una ragazza che lascia il suo indirizzo, ma non il suo numero di telefono. E la storia vuole che fu lo stesso Ross ad arrivare sulla Great Western Road di Glasgow per chiedere a Lorraine McIntosh di unirsi al gruppo. E c'è la ciliegina sulla torna: durante uno delle prime serata acclamati dal pubblico, Dougie Vipond leggermente brillo incontrò Ewen Vernal, bassista, nel bagno di un locale e gli chiese di unirsi al gruppo. Il nome per la band è quello che Ross ha in testa da anni: Deacon Blue, e siamo nel 1985. Glasgow in quegli anni è una città in piena trasformazione sociale, anche con profonde fratture socio economiche (per farsi un'idea, suggerisco i romanzi di Douglas Stuart) ma dal punto di vista musicale sarà la capitale scozzese della musica. Tanto che un giornalista del Glasgow Herald, John Williamson, decise di produrre una cassetta in allegato alle pagine culturali del giornale con tutte le promesse della musica cittadina di quel periodo: ci sono futuri gruppi e artisti molto famosi come i Wet Wet Wet, Kevin McDermott, Hue and Cry e i Deacon Blue, che contribuiscono con Take The Saints Away.

Dopo questa esperienza, sono pronti ad andare in studio, insieme a Jon Kelly, capo ingegnere del suono agli Air Studios di Londra. Ross ha in mente una sorta di concept album su Glasgow, che ne racconti le sfumature più varie. Raintown, pubblicato nel 1987, si presenta con una meravigliosa foto in bianco e nero di Oscar Marziaroli, italo scozzese futuro acclamato fotografo, che ferma una città avvolta nella perenne pioggerellina con sullo sfondo uno dei simboli della città, la Finnieston Crane, una gigantesca gru portuale, ormai non operativa, simbolo dell'industriosità degli abitanti, proprio all'imbocco del porto cittadino. Dal punto di vista musicale, seppur si parte dall'idea di pop sofisticato del mitico duo da cui prendono il nome, i Deacon Blue mischiano il lirismo vocale e le atmosfere uniche di Van Morrison, un canto-racconto degno del primo Springsteen e un'eleganza che ha una sua totale particolarità. Il disco ha un andamento ondeggiante tra brani calmi e riflessivi e quelli più incalzanti: l'inizio è davvero suggestivo, con Born In The Storm che come una nebbia si dirada e sfuma in Raintown, canzone che è profondamente legata all'esperienza di Ross, con versi che dicono "Waiting for the phone to ring to make me all I am.\You're in the suburbs waiting for somewhere to go\I'm down here working on some dumb show\In a raintown" che raccontano l'inizio di tutta la storia. Ross scrive del rapporto con il business musicale nella bella Ragman e nell'altrettanto suggestiva Loaded, scritta di getto come un flusso di coscienza su una base improvvisata dagli altri componenti della band su una cassetta super 8, ed è capace di dipingere affreschi musicali persino drammatici in abiti delicati e affascinanti. He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now è ispirata ad un pensiero, a che vita avesse fatto l'uomo che sganciò la bomba atomica su Hiroshima: tra incontri particolari ("he may have been with Oppenheimer, shaken Einstein's hand\Did we have to drop the bomb? You bet, to save this land\He was only taking pictures around the critical mass\While the troops on Tinian island sang 'Follow the bouncing ball') e cosa potrebbe essere oggi (He may have been a nationalist, a physicist or a pacifist (...) Well, I have seen that movie of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde\And I know he looks like Spencer Tracy Now). When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring) ha ai cori il famoso gruppo R&B londinese dei Londonbeat. Alto livello è anche Chocolate Girl, che racconta di un tipo anaffettivo, un certo Alan, ricco e spendaccione, "He calls her the chocolate girl\Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her\She knows she's the chocolate girl\Cause she's broken up and swallowed\And wrapped in bits of silver". Ma il capoavoro è Dignity: ritratto di quello spirito scozzese della dignità del lavoro, racconta la storia di un impiegato comunale, probabilmente uno che lavora sulle strade, e che non perde il sorriso nemmeno quando è preso in giro dal ragazzini e che ha un sogno, comprare un gommone, un dinghy, che vuole chiamare Dignity, con cui "I'll sail her up the west coast\Through villages and towns\I'll be on my holidays\They'll be doing their rounds\They'll ask me how I got her I'll say, "I saved my money"\They'll say, "Isn't she pretty? That ship called Dignity". In Love's Great Fears, liricissima e tutta giocata sul duetto Ross - McIntosh, che diventeranno marito e moglie poco tempo dopo, c'è Chris Rea alla chitarra.

Il disco, per le qualità musicali, per la scelta azzeccata dei singoli e per la sua atmosfera sofisticata, che quasi inventerà un genere, ha un successo clamoroso: arriva fino al numero 14 nella classifica dei dischi più venduti, rimane in classifica un anno e mezzo e vende oltre un milione di copie. La band continuerà a scrivere belle cose, e il successivo When The World Knows Your Name del 1989 arriva persino al numero 1 in UK e contiene la loro canzone più famosa, Real Gone Kid, facendo divenire sogno il successo che un ragazzo scozzese aveva immaginato sentendo una canzone, Deacon Blues, che parla di nerds and losers, secondo le famose parole di commento di Donald Fagen. Dedicherò il mese di settembre a gruppi scozzese degli anni '80, che è un periodo storico e una zona geografica che ha regalato cosine niente affatto male alla storia della musica.

3 bedroom terraced house for sale on Fitzroy Lane, Finnieston, Glasgow

Asking price: £259,000

Sold price: £355,000

i had a dream i worked as a software developer for the laundrette in finnieston and @girlbloke came in to wash her clothes and i saw her leaving but if i said hello the boss woman would shout at me

ah thank you sweet @comicsbi-thebook and congrats on your marriage omg!! ;-; 💚

Alias/Name: finnie!!

Birthday: september 3rd baby

Zodiac: i know virgo. i don't know the rest...

Height: 5ft 8" (i think anyway, maybe 7"...)

Hobbies: writing and gaming and rotting in my bed and doodling

Favourite colour: baby pink, chartreuse/lime green, mustard, teal

Favourite book: oh oof hm i think... the girl who loved tom gordon, fantastic mr fox, method and madness of monsters THERE'S TOO MANY these are ones i have reread and or have gotten a deep reaction out of me or taught me things i remembered

Last Song: the last song i listened to was nancy boy by placebo

Last Movie/Show: the last thing i paid attention to was bob's burgers. but my husband was watching the gbbo final in the background while i played coral island...

Recent Read: god i haven't picked up a book in forever, and that includes comics. i think the last one was probably part of the knight terrors series, which i still need to finish!

Inspiration: the beautiful echo chamber of fandom

Story behind URL: there's this one bit in limmy's show where his character dee dee has a dream where he's been up the finnieston crane (a big crane in glasgow) and i just love when he's like "were we up that finnieston crane last night?" so when i picked my url over a decade ago for archive of our own, i chose that. and then when i came back to tumblr wanting to start fresh, it just made sense lol

Fun Fact: i can make a really neat noise like a pigeon with my tongue...

(i'm just tagging everyone!! pls tag me in it if you do it because i like learning fun facts u-u)

Early birthday brunch yesterday at @derbylane.finnieston . The full menu was so delicious I almost couldn’t choose but went for Eggs Alba which was french toast brioche, haggis, black pudding, potato scone, poached eggs and hollandaise. The french toast brioche base took it to a new level. The staff were lovely and I really liked the décor. I’ve also turned into that person who had eggs and Prosecco, but when it’s your birthday there’s no rules right? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Would thoroughly recommend this place. ⏭ for the menu #glasgowfoodie #glasgowrestaurants #glasgowbrunch #glasgowfood #glasgowfoodscene #foodblogger #foodblogfeed #finnieston #glasgowwestend (at Derby Lane Finnieston) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfecCc9DU2T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#chauffeur #finnieston #mercedesbenz #glasgow (at Radisson RED Glasgow) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChwkoQqr1JP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I read an ungodly amount of Batman fanfic. Here are my favorite fics completed in January-March 2023 from A to Z!

burn it to ashes by distortopia

An absolutely scorching batjokes fic based on the Deadly Duo comic that uses the (canonical!) gimp mask for all it's worth =))

Grudge Match by frickityfrac

You'll ever be able to think of Dick Grayson and the Joker the same way again--a pairing that seems like it shouldn't work but becomes both plausible and hilarious in this masterpiece

i violated professional boundaries (and all i got was this stupid tee shirt) by paprikaflakes

An ~immensely~ fun Scriddler fic in which every line is better than the last

Let It Slide by finnieston-crane

Incredibly true-to-characrer Batman Unburied Riddler/reader smut oneshot

the quiet noise by littlearrows

Batman's in surgery and Jim Gordon and Superman sit with a distraught but stoic Robin in the hospital waiting room. Really lovely outside pov on baby Dick Grayson