Gordon Barr

Buildings/heritage/tech fan, ex-scientist. 50% of @ScottishCinemas Works @archhfundscot 33% of @AtGF1988 & Married @calluna_ Also at @gordonbarr.scot on BlueSky

[Lex Lamb @LambLex]

Just at the point where I'm poised to approve final artwork for the Garden Festival book I am pleasantly sidetracked by an intriguing academic query about discarded GGF items appearing in 'Taggart' (and not the Garden Festival episode everyone knows about)...

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

@LambLex Interesting!

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Aberdeen’s C-listed @BelmontCinema first showed films in 1898. It is now being revived as city’s only community-led independent cinema, education centre & café bar.
The AHF has helped with an #HESsupported grant in 2024 to help develop sustainable plans for its future.

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Visiting Aberdeen’s Cat B-listed Wallace Tower today. Built c.1600 in city centre, moved to Seaton Park in 1960s, & now restored after nearly 30 years of dereliction by Tillydrone Community Development Trust. The AHF supported project with @WmGrantFound grants in 2023 & 2025.

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Visiting Aberdeen’s Cat B-listed Wallace Tower today. Built c.1600 in city centre, moved to Seaton Park in 1960s, & now restored after nearly 30 years of dereliction by Tillydrone Community Development Trust. The AHF supported project with @WmGrantFound grants in 2023 & 2025.

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Splashing news! Tarlair Lido among this year’s RIAS award winners!
AHF supported Friends of Tarlair with #HESsupported grant for plans to regenerate this remarkable Cat A-listed complex. No swimming yet but café’s scones and sea views well worth the trip!
https://t.co/XjfgRcw7rF

[Lex Lamb @LambLex]

Big (and nerve-wracking and exciting) day today, as the book artwork goes to the printers. Pre-orders are still open - see my bio.

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Yesterday’s bank holiday was a great day for a sunny work trip downriver to visit some Inverclyde-based projects AHF has been supporting. Three projects of very different scales and at different points, but all extremely inspiring!

[Laid by Monty: Buildings with Stories @LaidByMonty]

⚡Our 'famous' Deco Burtons database just got FASTER!⚡No more waiting for slow tables to appear. Location data appears on page load, in a clean new format that also looks beautiful on mobile.📱👌Choose a location and take a look! https://t.co/5LAp72BVgW

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

In Gourock, CR are up and running in the B-listed Old Library Annex, now a welcoming space offering a range of STEAM activities for young people & adults. AHF helped with #HESsupported PVG to get specialist conservation advice on repairs for the very weathered sandstone facade!

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Yesterday’s bank holiday was a great day for a sunny work trip downriver to visit some Inverclyde-based projects AHF has been supporting. Three projects of very different scales and at different points, but all extremely inspiring!

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

In Greenock, @Creativeregen have just taken ownership of the former Glebe building, a B-listed former sugar warehouse, with plans to regenerate it as community learning space and creative hub. AHF have helped with an #HESsupported viability & dev grants towards design team costs.

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

@K_Shankland Following Betteridge’s Law of Headlines:
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[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Lovely wander along Bo’ness foreshore yesterday - some excellent interesting bricks spotted.
Could this partial circular brick structure perhaps be a surviving part of base of chimney from Carriden Colliery visible on old OS maps & in Trove pic? location roughly fits at least!

[Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan]

Today a 🧵 about lost treasure in #Edinburgh, & how a friend of mine found it. The treasures in question are the swanky goods that go with the office of Usher of the White Rod, a hereditary office at the Scottish Parliament, established in the 14th century... Are you in? /1

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

@is_glasgow Also if you look over the railings at the bit where the fence suddenly dog-legs in a bit you can see the extant cobbles where the road was wider until the council dealt with the subsidence into the river by just moving the fence further away from it…!

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Glasgow folks!
Come see me giving a brand new (*) heritage lecture on Glasgow’s Cinema Experiment at 7pm on 24th June @ Kelvin Hall - absolutely free and unticketed as part of WestFest 2026.
(*) Contains approx 7% new material compared to previous talks.
https://t.co/t4TBAgTRPA

[Gordon Barr @GordonBarr]

Glasgow folks!
Come see me giving a brand new (*) heritage lecture on Glasgow’s Cinema Experiment at 7pm on 24th June @ Kelvin Hall - absolutely free and unticketed as part of WestFest 2026.
(*) Contains approx 7% new material compared to previous talks.
https://t.co/t4TBAgTRPA

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow.

#glasgow #ironwork #dragon #architecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields