This Is My GlasgowThe former Titwood Farmhouse on Shawmoss Road in Glasgow. One of around half a dozen former farm houses still standing in the city.
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Love this little mosaic logo at the entrance to a cafe at 14 Minard Road on the Southside of Glasgow. I've got no idea how long it's been there, but it's got a nice 1930s style feel to it. Anyone got any ideas what it relates to?
Queen Mary obviously didn't do as she was requested, and she went on to lose the battle and was forced to flee to England where she sought asylum from her cousin, Queen Elizabeth. This was an unfortunate choice which eventually led to her trial and then her execution on the 8th of February 1587.
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Loof or Luif is an old Scots word for palm, and the name is said to have originated with a local fortune-teller who offered to tell Mary Queen of Scots her fate at the upcoming Battle of Langside (on a site near this pub) in 1568, as long as she crossed her loof (or palm) with silver.
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A threshold mosaic at the entrance to the Corona Bar on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. The symbol in the middle is a play on the local place name Crossmyloof.
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Thomson was well known for the care he showed towards his workforce and as well as the bakery, he also encouraged them to open savings accounts and matched their contributions with his own money. He also commissioned Alexander 'Greek' Thomson to build houses for them (the last of which was demolished in the 1970s). This is quite a contrast to how we expect business owners to act today.
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What I presume is a surviving part of the old Crossmyloof Bakery behind the Camphill Gate tenements on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. This bakery was established in the 1840s by Neale Thomson to ensure his workers at the Adelphi Cotton Works in nearby Hutchesontown could purchase good quality bread at a price that was nuch cheaper than was available elsewhere.
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Loof or Luif is an old Scots word for palm, and the name is said to have originated with a local fortune-teller who offered to tell Mary Queen of Scots her fate at the upcoming Battle of Langside in 1568, as long as she crossed her loof (or palm) with silver. This story seems to have then inspired the architects Clarke and Bell to include the symbol of a palm with a cross on it (or in other words a crossed palm) on their design for the 1912 Corona Bar.
Decorative detail over an entrance to the Corona Bar on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. The symbol in the middle is a play on the local place name Crossmyloof.
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Loof or Luif is an old Scots word for palm, and the name is said to have originated with a local fortune-teller who offered to tell Mary Queen of Scots her fate as she headed for a showdown with the Earl of Moray at the Battle of Langside in 1568, as long as the Queen crossed her loof (i.e. crossed her palm) with silver. Hence, the use of a palm with a cross on it (or in other words a crossed palm) on Clarke and Bell's 1912 Corona Bar.