The Hippodrome Picture Palace Bo’ness was the very first purpose-built picture house in Scotland and An example of pre-art deco cinema architecture, it was designed by the local architect Matthew Steele and is an A-listed building. Click on an image to enlarge….. Photographs by F J Harrigan Fact File: The Hippodrome Picture Palace was opened
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This is an excellent website from Education Scotland that showcases Scotland’s rich musical heritage. You will find audio recordings, lyrics and notation along with the fascinating history of the origins of many of these songs. Families and friends, heroes and villains, games and laughter, school and work, love and freedom – it’s all here in
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This is a new category and each month there will be a new story. This month, let me introduce you to – Fearless Francis! Fearless Francis is a little boy living in Glasgow in the late 1950s. He lives in a fantasy world, playing in the tenement streets and backcourts, having all sorts of imaginary
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BBC Radio Scotland is a well-respected radio station, but the original Radio Scotland was a pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship called The Comet (a Clyde-built ship launched in 1904) in the North Sea near Dunbar from 1965 until the Labour government banned pirate radio stations in 1967. Station 242 (Radio Scotland) proved very
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In 1974, In an effort to discredit the Scottish National Party, the Conservative Government commissioned Professor Gavin McCrone (a government economist) to look into the viability of an independent Scotland. What the dossier revealed forced the incoming Labour Government to classify the dossier as top secret for fear it could strengthen the SNP’s case for
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This Victorian Scottish soldier had the rare distinction of rising through the ranks from a private age 17, to become Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, Commanderin-Chief of the British Forces in Ceylon. A remarkable achievement for the crofter’s son from Dingwall who left school when he was 15. Some fact about Sir Hector Archibald
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Bill Honeywell posted this message on SPM’s messageboard on th 10th of February 2012: CancerBikeMan: Hi – I cycle to raise money for Cancer Research – see my blog at billhoneywell.blogspot.com. I’m planning a tour of 39 Western Isles in April May and wonder if anyone in Rothesay can provide two beds for the night
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I’ve been working on different forum types during last month to check out which one will work best with SPM. I’ve finally decided on the Mingle Forum plugin. The previous eBook forum was not successful, because although it was getting hits, no one was posting and the name clashed with another eBook site. Besides which,
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