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Shop display - dummies dressed up and sitting at table for dinner

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).

September 24, 2018 in History, Scotland, Travel, Uncategorized.
Old black and white photo of people boarding a tram in Glasgow

Nightwalking, Junkfood Junction and the future King of Scotland

Nightwalking’s early subversive reputation, a night stroll down Junkfood Junction and meeting the future King of Scotland.  

January 3, 2018 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Crewwe station at night with empty platforms

A lost world at Crewe Station

Late Sunday night and Crewe Station is empty and deserted. But there is a lost world here, filled with the ghosts from a bygone era of variety theatre.

January 30, 2017 in History, Travel, Uncategorized.

Exploring Glasgow’s tunnels and abandoned ghost stations

The defunct Glasgow Central Railway line left behind a trail of stations, tunnels, shafts, cuttings and bridges throughout west Glasgow: a playground for children and gallery for graffiti artists.

April 20, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Hidden Fife: the abandoned railway buildings

The line of abandoned buildings lay on the other side of a field of stubble. Access to the buildings was an easy matter of wading through nettles, brambles and overgrowth and hopping through an open window.

October 21, 2013 in Scotland.
View from a train: Early morning over Firth of Forth

The drama of the Forth Railway Bridge

Fife is rife with ruins, green fields and contradiction. Its dramatic entrance hall, the Forth Bridge, somehow encapsulates much of its inner nature, except perhaps for the matter of golf.

October 3, 2013 in History, Scotland, Travel.

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