JoBaird @oldfangledjo

loves old stuff and shiny stuff, art, architecture, chairs, cycling and cheese. Grumpy before coffee. Views expressed are mine alone. Edinburgh Joined February 2009

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Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa

a year ago

🚨 Breaking: Student housing, offices or a “boutique hotel” are being touted as potential development options for Summerhall as the Edinburgh arts village is put up for sale on the open market by its owners.🚨 scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-… @Summerhallery @TheScotsman @scotsman_arts

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The Landmark Trust @LandmarkTrust

a year ago

📢 #MavisbankHouse to be saved! Thanks to a major grant of £5.3m from the #NationalHeritageMemorialFund and following 10 years of effort by Landmark, we are overjoyed to announce that we can now rescue one of Britain's most important buildings at risk: bit.ly/4ahKqqy

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BBC Radio 6 Music @BBC6Music

2 years ago

This will be a treat of a listen 📷 @tomwaits is going to co-host an Iggy Confidential episode with @IggyPop! Echoing their famous joint appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’, the two-hour programme will see the pair pump the Confidential Jukebox full of nickels…

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Cockburn Association (The Edinburgh Civic Trust) @thecockburn

2 years ago

Proposed Hotel 104 - 106, 107 & 108 Princes Street We find nothing in the current banal and mundane proposals which we can support. If consented this scheme will lead to the further erosion of what was once one of the finest streets in the world. cockburnassociation.org.uk/unique-city/co…

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Scotdrone @scotdrone

2 years ago

What an unforgettable morning today seeing this #whale in the basin of #Falkirk Wheel. Great effort from #Scottish Canals team who managed to coax it out through the lower lock to Forth & Clyde canal and assisted it on it's journey to the Firth of Forth. #visitfalkirk

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Katie Marshall @KatieMarshall__

2 years ago

Eternal Source of Light Divine - Handel Singing a cappella in the Cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral.

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Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg

3 years ago

4 Fettes Row—built in 1821 as a family house of five floors, with thirteen rooms, “commanding a fine view of the Ochils, Fife &c”. From 1944, it was gradually transformed into flats—three reached by a common stair and one in the basement. Former residents include:

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Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg

3 years ago

10 Hill Place—one of a row of Georgian tenements that have, in recent years, been knocked through and extensively remodelled to create a hotel. The door to what was number 10 has been turned into a window, but its front steps and railings remain. Former residents include:

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#WOMENSART @womensart1

3 years ago

Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch, Flowers in a Glass Vase with a Tulip, 1716 #WomensArt

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Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg

3 years ago

13 East Preston Street – a mid-19th century tenement, entirely residential: six flats in the stair, above two main-door flats on the ground level. Notable residents include:

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Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt

3 years ago

Grab the spotlight as you cycle like a queen in this #frockingfabulous cycling suit of the 1890's. Via FIDM. #fashionhistory

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Stray Cat Rescue Team West Midlands @StrayCatsWM

3 years ago

Literally begging you, please VOTE for us… It’s free and takes one minute ✔️ Thank you so so much 🙌💖 ⬇️ mygivingcircle.org/vote PS YOU CAN VOTE ONCE A WEEK!!!!

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Trevor Beattie @trevorbmbagency

3 years ago

This is the closest I have ever come to time-travelling. Utterly extraordinary.

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Edward Foley @EdwardFoley

3 years ago

Pls RT thanks. 👇🏼

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History Defined @historydefined

3 years ago

Paris, 1920s in Color

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Artists of Colour @artistsofcolour

3 years ago

DRINKING TEA, Lei Xue, 2010

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety

3 years ago

19th century Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin liked mice and liked painting them. Here’s just one

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dave stewart @diggums

3 years ago

Brocken spectre on Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, waiting for the haar to clear. I'll admit I ran up to this spot when I realised it was briefly guaranteed. #brockenspectre #haar #edinburgh

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Historygirl @janeyellene

3 years ago

Take a trip on a cable car in San Francisco 1906, You are travelling down Market Street, four days before the earthquake and fire that destroyed most of the city. Taken from the front of a cable car. (Part 1) Credit Nass (youtube)