Lex Lamb

Designer and coder and all that, into places and spaces though mainly local, ancient or modernist. Currently writing a book on the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival.

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Major announcement: 'The 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival' - the first full account of the Glasgow Garden Festival - is now available to preview and pre-order. And a print of the Garden Festival sketch map is available right now! https://t.co/9TsNGzEJFk

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@hellothisisivan Very good, I thought, but be prepared for the fact that condensing something like ‘The Spy Who…’ into less than 2hrs means some pretty blatant chunks of straight-on exposition

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@GordonBarr Yeah, some bits of the high street. I reckon they were dug out to form backdrop - as far as I’m aware this now represents the last (probs 1990) recorded sighting of any part of that feature!

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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)...

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For example: one message next to the ever present pool of water at the nadir read ‘if you’ve made it this far you’ll be dead before you leave’ and the next read ‘a robin redbreast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage’.

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Before the revamp and gates the graffiti down there was interesting: a mix of the usual stuff and, oddly, a lot of William Blake quotes. I remember a scary passage when most of the lights had failed on a summer evening and reaching the end felt like some kind of slight rebirth.

[Neil Scott @MrNeilScott]

Clyde Foot Tunnel - one of the most dystopian places in Glasgow, where you have to contact the control centre to exit.

[James Mackenzie @mrjamesmack]

Years of absolute lack of care for Glasgow's built environment must come to an end one day. Edinburgh used to do just as badly but the vandalism has largely been ended here. Short thread on what you can do to help this specific building ⬇️

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@MrNeilScott @hueandcry @boardsofcanada Thought for a moment there that the Proclaimers had gone drill

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@is_glasgow Yeah, I got that email and I really hope someone competent and persistent will step up to make representation. (My one experience of sitting through such a hearing was an ordeal.)

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@urbanprehisto It’s a nice space under that concrete dome.

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@ScotRoadArchive Thanks!

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@urbanprehisto Thanks, Kenny. I’m still a long way from feeling relaxed about it all, mind you!

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

[JAMES MARTIN 🇦🇪 @JAMESMARTlN]

#GIRVAN 1970s

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@is_glasgow Lovely spot that. Big fan.

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This is pretty big news

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One of Glasgow's more confusing icons will soon disappear from Partick - the infamous Hot Doughnut sign.

For over a decade the slightly terrifying mascot has loomed over Dumbarton Road, proving a perennial trender online and starring in its own merchandise line.

But the grinning human-doughnut hybrid is being retired as the business' owner Sylwia Knaak moves into wholesale.

She's giving fans - who tell her the sign belongs in Kelvingrove Museum - the chance to get their photo taken with the eponymous Hot Doughnut when it comes down a week on Saturday.

Sylwia also gave us a sneak peek at one of the discarded designs... which may have proven even hotter.

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@hs_wilkins It’s a belter. As you may know, subject to much urban myth (or not myth; I dunno) regarding missile-proof design and hidden basements and the like.

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@bencooper @GlasgowCC Must have been a bit bumpy

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Kudos to @GlasgowCC for reopening the path in the Botanics s of the Kelvin - including the wee branch at the top that’s been closed since I can remember. Great to have this delightful bit of urban woodland, secluded from the traffic noise of GWR, available again.

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@bencooper @GlasgowCC My memories of this bit in particular being open are very hazy indeed. Must be decades.

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Just thinking @BGallagherColl will be pleased about the news (first time I enjoyed walking the path once more I found myself eye-to-eye with one of those herons for about ten minutes).