Rascal Multitude

Cosmic anarchist, daft makar. Marxist-Calvinist. Grumpy Bartender. Language, literature, local history. Edinburgh & Lothians.

[PictureThis Scotland @74frankfurt]

The first electric train from Glasgow to London, May 1974.

[Tony McK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ||*|| @oakroyd]

South #Glasgow horizon looking across approach to St. Enoch Railway Station, 1964.
(Transport Museum)

[Summerlee Museum @SummerleeMuseum]

This weekend at Summerlee Museum...

Head over to Summerlee this weekend to see a remarkable showcase of local and national model trains, tracks and detailed railway scenes.

🚂Model Railway Weekend
📅Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 May

#SummerleeMuseum #ModelTrains

[Soviet Navy @sovetsky_flot]

This was the Ronettes at their peak.

[rabies🇵🇸 @SaddamTransfem]

Amazing how they managed to get 6/6 wrong on the predictions

[Tony McK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ||*|| @oakroyd]

Under the bridges of #Glasgow, early 1930s. Pic by Margaret Watkins.

[Lost Houses of the Clyde Valley @CamnethanPriory]

Sketches from the start of the journey following the Clyde from its source by Donald Maxwell from "The Book of the Clyde" published in 1927

[Sujit Das @sujitdasesq]

download here, pass along and read freely
https://t.co/ja9PGsodPe

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 21 May 1913 a bomb exploded at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, set by suffragettes. It caused no casualties but caused some damage. A note was left reading: “How beggarly appears argument before defiant deed. Votes for women.”' https://t.co/UKptbqf334

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

Population Density Map Of Scotland

credit: @researchremora

See 100+ more: https://t.co/9GqvKsZV60

[Hughes-on-the-Wold @NotThatHughes]

'lower-value human capital'

[elizabeth tutty @tutty352]

The abandoned village of Glendrian, inside the rim of the Ardnamurchan volcano. A favourite place. Very windy!

[North Ages @NorthAges]

Robert Dickson of the Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division visited Clatchard Craig, Fife, #OTD in 1970, where he noted ‘The fort has been completely destroyed by quarrying.’ Limited rescue excavations at the Pictish site had taken place in the ’50s and ’60s. 📸Peter Dennis

[North Ages @NorthAges]

The Pictish army of Bridei son of Beli, king of Fortriu, defeated that of Ecgfrith son of Oswiu, king of the Northumbrians, #OTD in 685. https://t.co/VXGOTrRRt8

[SCAA @ScotAirAmb]

Do you know which part of Scotland this is? #ViewFromTheCrew

#Scotland #AirAmbulance #Helicopter #Photography

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

The remains of the former Victoria Park Station in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow. Part of the Lanarkshire and Dumbarton Railway, it opened in 1896. name was changed first to Scotstoun in 1900 and then Scotstoun East in 1952, before it closed in 1964.

Cont./

#glasgow

[Undiscovered Scotland @UndisScot]

The Union Canal at Linlithgow. After four years' construction it opened in 1822 and its 31½ lock-free miles follow the 240ft contour from Edinburgh to Falkirk, giving it the name it was known by at the time, the "mathematical river". More pics and info: https://t.co/mAXPBKeRBd

[Rascal Multitude @RascalMultitude]

What kindae motor is this?

[Tony McK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ||*|| @oakroyd]

Breid van pic of the day.

[PictureThis Scotland @74frankfurt]

Pubs of Scotland: Demolition of the Radical Road, Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh in 2018.

Previously known as The Right Wing, owned by former Hibs player Gordon Smith.

[PictureThis Scotland @74frankfurt]

Doune railway station in 1967, 18 months after its closure. Pic: Norman Turnbull