This Is My GlasgowFor anyone interested in picking up a copy of my new book of walks around Glasgow locally, it's now available at Sunshine No 1 (1043 Cathcart Road in Mount Florida), Bigglestones Books (56 Glassford Street in the Merchant City) and Plantique (286 Dumbarton Road in Partick). Thanks to all of them for stocking it.
For those of you who were asking where they could buy my new book, Glasgow Uncovered, in the city, I'm happy to say I now have my first local supplier. It's the wonderful Sunshine No. 1, who are housed in this rather beautiful red sandstone tenement on Cathcart Road in Mount Florida.
The Foulis brothers not only ran one of Glasgow's first book shops (opened in 1741, some ten years before John Smith opened his), but also ran the much-respected Foulis Press and were printers for the University of Glasgow.
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Embedded in the pavement outside the Ramshorn Theatre on Ingram Street in Glasgow is this somewhat enigmatic flagstone. It's a reminder of a time when the neighbouring Ramshorn Cemetery was larger and marks the last resting place of Robert and Andrew Foulis, both of whom died in the 1770s.
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