Abandoned railways, restored heritage
Exploring abandoned and restored industrial railway heritage in south Scotland and Yorkshire. Advertisements
Lord of the Seas: Pablo Neruda and a Scottish naval hero
How a friendship inspired the great Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, to write a poem about a Scottish naval hero.
Is this the quirkiest town in Britain?
This town has an abandoned harbour, lost-in-time cafes, a train junkyard, old-world cinema and an astonishing annual fair. You’ve probably never heard of it (unless you live in central Scotland).
Abandoned in Bedlam
Bedlam is at the end of the road, but that’s the least of it.
Planting trees, freezing nights and talking deer
An amateur dabbler goes tree-planting on Knoydart, mending Scotland’s ecological damage one sapling at a time. Souls were nearly bartered for dry socks.
Why football IS coming home…to Glasgow
Celebrating new English football, drunken tales of the Tartan Army and looking forward to a football homecoming to Glasgow in 2020.
A republican son, a royalist mother and a royal wedding
A republican watches the royal wedding with the ultimate royal watcher, fact checker, sharp-tongued etiquette stickler. It’s all washed down with booze.
Grangemouth: the beauty in industry
It’s outdated, sprawling, industrial and CO2 spewing. Yet there’s also a strange beauty to be found walking by the Grangemouth Refinery.
