Gateside bricks in the Western Necropolis in the Lambhill area of Glasgow. These were made in the
Gateside Brickworks in Cambuslang, which opened in 1899. In 1963, there were six brickworks in this area (Barbauchlaw, Blantyreferme, Newton, Northfield and Gateside) producing 54.5 million bricks per year.

#glasgow #brick #cambuslang #bricks #brickworks

My childhood passes on a bicycle
Down West Coats Road, beneath our sycamore
That filters July sunlight through the slow
Sidereal quiet of the suburb…

—Robert Crawford, “Cambuslang”
published in SELECTED POEMS, (Jonathan Cape, 2011)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/362438/selected-poems-by-robert-crawford/9781446484227

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Cambuslang #Glasgow

Calling all #Cambuslang, #Motherwell, #Linlithgow, #Eaglesham, #Barrhead folk.
There's consultations going on for proposed battery storage facilities in your area. Looks like it might be green field sites. SO you might be interested in having input about it.

https://aahplanningconsultations.co.uk/events

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/30/margaret-ferrier-should-be-suspended-from-commons-for-30-days-for-covid-breach-says-committee

Hope there is a by-election, and I voted for the SNP ie Margaret Ferrier.
Ferrier doesn’t deserve any position of power after such shockingly bad conduct.

#scottishpolitics #rutherglen #cambuslang