Posted on YouTube by andrewjohnmoore84 Here is a great video about Glasgow’s last music hall.  Its claim to fame is that it is where Stan Laurel made his stage debut and it is almost certain that Cary Grant performed here when he was just plain Archie Leech and part of an acrobat act. Read more
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The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall was built in 1857, designed by the architects Gildhard and McFarlane. It opened as the Britannia Hall but its name was changed many times. The building has been called Campbell’s Music Saloon, Hubner’s Animatogrraph, Panopticon, Britannia Theatre of Varieties, and the Tron Cinema. In 1927. It settled for a while
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Since I am reviewing a book about the Glasgow Necropolis, I’d like to share with you a couple of photographs I took on a recent visit to the Glasgow Necropolis, near Glasgow Cathedral. I came across this mausoleum. There were no inscriptions that I could see, and at that time, I knew nothing about this
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James Templeton appointed William Leiper as the architect to design the facade of the new carpet factory called the Albert Mills. Three designs were rejected by Glasgow Council because they believed they did not befit being so near the Glasgow Green, the public park facing the proposed new building. Templeton asked Leiper to design a
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On the 17 September 1862 in Glasgow, the trial began for the murder of Jess McPherson of 17 Sandyford Place Glasgow. The accused was Mrs Jessie McLachlan, age 28. She was a close friend of Jess McPherson and a former servant at 17 Sandyford Place. It took the jury only 15 minutes to find Jessie
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Glasgow Montage Glesca Pals www.glescapals.com/ Glesga is also known to locals as Glesca. Glasgow’s Whispering Walls is now incorporated into ScotchPotch. This is a fantastic site for Glasgow folk that live or have lived near Bridgeton. Even if you don’t come from the East End of Glasgow, there are many interesting articles about Glasgow’s past
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On the 30 June 1857 in the High Court Edinburgh, began one of the most infamous cases in Scottish legal history. The jury’s verdict 9 days later, has caused controversy ever since. In Scotland there are 3 possible outcomes of a trial; guilty, not guilty – and not proven. As in this case, if a jury returns a verdict of not proven, it suggests a strong possibility of guilt, but insufficient grounds to convict the accused. The young lady in question was given this verdict, and therefore was left with a stain on her character, which in turn brought shame upon her family.

On trial was Madeleine Hamilton Smith, an 22-year-old debutante of her day. Her father was the successful architect James Smith, who designed the McLellan Art Galleries in Sauchiehall Street Glasgow.

Behind those old walls are mysteries right enough. Here’s a quote from the Evening Times….. A workman has unearthed a vintage film reel of King Kong during the refurbishment of a West End cinema. Joiner Ross McMillan discovered the ancient movie hidden behind a partition wall in a projection room in the Grosvenor Cinema. The
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Are there ghosts within these old hospital buildings? Posted on YouTube bt TeEnZie Read about the history of Broomhill Hospital HERE

A very entertaining video about this medieval cathedral. Posted by Nigey on YouTube