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Wait til they start deep frying the teacakes

Cool! But just moving images wouldn't do. I'd want sound and smell also. And the ability to interact with the image.

Very interesting Tim.

I wonder what happened to the boy.

Well, it wasn't part of Glasgow back then (I think) but close enough...I would go back to exactly 23rd September 1870 to 60 Merkland Street Partick and wait there all day and night until my great great grandfather and his bride showed up to get married. Then I would browbeat them both until they to...

Thanks for posting that link Onny. Very interesting.

Sad to say that I've met quite a few Jamaicans here in London, who have Scottish Surnames.

"Conservators at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum are working on an 18th Century portrait to uncover a black servant who was painted out." [ Full story ]. Tim I don't think I've ever heard anything about slaves in Glasgow though I don't doubt there were some around. Just shows how you c...

I was in a department store in Madrid a few years ago and they had Tunnocks Teacakes in the posh deli section (along with Heinz soup and HP sauce)

onyirtodd wrote:

JohnR wrote:

onyirtodd wrote:Didn't someone ask this before?

Yes - the same person ::):

What was the answer then?

Good question

You mean Hope St isn't named after Bob? Gutted!

I wonder if he has any idea that he is the subject of all this internet chit chat?

For as long as I can remember, the council and PTE have been coming up with wonderful ideas for getting people from A to B. But none of them ever make it off the drawing board. I'd love Glasgow to build a second Subway but I won't hold my breath waiting for it to happen. I use the train between the ...

Can you still buy bacon flavoured tattie scones? They were great

This thread is making me homesick

The closest thing to tattie scones here are potato cakes, which are pretty much the same but they're too fat and they go a bit soggy. I have been known to stash a few packets in my bag, coming back from a trip home.

's a bit like sawchyhall St

That's right. There was a lot of spare ground around the factory where people dumped their rubbish and kids would set it on fire. I vaguely remember a kid being burned to death in a skip fire down that way, a few years after I worked there. Now the whole area is spare ground. When I drove through Da...