Welcome to my wee photoblog on Glasgow, where we feature the joys and unjoys of walking and cycling through a fascinating, beautiful and often badly run city. For the blog's origin and an alphabetical list of posts see the 'Introduction' post -
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/introduction.html
It is 21 December and Tommy Sheridan is alone in the dock (Gail having been earlier acquitted of all charges) from where he has chosen to give his closing speech. The four earlier blogs on the Sheridan trial are
Swingergate Day 2: Tommy and Gail Sheridan on Trial
Swingergate Day 11: 'How's He No' Gettin' Drapped Aff?'
Swingergate Day 28: A Large Pinch of Salt
Swingergate Day 37: Andy Coulson Doesn't Slip Up
And I am typing this on 23 December, the day Tommy Sheridan is found guilty of perjury
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| Today, instead of ambling down Howard St and the Bridgegate, we are going to walk to the High Court by the Clyde |
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| Heading down Dixon St |
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| One day there will be flats or houses in this gap |
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| Looking back at St Enoch Square |
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| Looking off to the left down Fox St - that's the RC Cathedral down there |
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| Looking west along Clyde St to Glasgow Bridge (and Bridge St) on left. The Broomielaw is further down under the railway bridge |
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| The Clyde Walkway |
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| We are walking east, this way |
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| Looking back |
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| Large snowball down there |
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| Now at the Suspension Bridge |
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| St Enoch Centre up there |
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| The splendid RC Cathedral which we have only seen from the back in the Swingergate series |
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| Fire engine on emergency call |
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| Stockwell St on left;Bridgegate that road where the spire is; Victoria Bridge on our right |
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| We are still heading along Clyde St |
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| Wee dumpster or something heading this way beyond the railway bridge |
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| It's turning into Merchant Lane. The city fathers want you to think rather of that more marketable metaphysical construct Merchant City, and not notice Merchant Lane |
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| The delicate dome of Glasgow Central Mosque looks very pretty in the slanting winter light |
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| Merchant Lane belongs to a world of older and wiser streets |
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| Underneath the railway bridge is the enticingly entitled 'C'MON IN' |
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| For the lost world of Paddy's Market and what used to be across there, see http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/10/paddys-market-last-day.html |
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| Hardy joggers |
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| Shipbank lane |
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| Looking back |
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| Hope House: home of the Salvation Army |
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| Old High Court coming up |
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| Albert Bridge |
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| After merging the above two pics, the car on the left fades as it is about to hit the other |
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| Glasgow Green |
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| The statue honours Sir Wiliam Collins, founder of Collins Publishers, whose Glasgow office was in Cathedral St, just round the corner from our Collins St tenement (street named after Sir William). Somehow I became a senior editor at HarperCollins - Ave, Sir William |
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| A fine Victorian gentleman he was - one of the many Victorians who created our world |
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| A John Le Carre scene |
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| For pics of the Green in summer see |
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| Old High Court, Mortuary and the High Court: Death and Justice |
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| The High Court is quiet - inside Sherry is going through his five-hour defence speech (mercifully in two parts) |
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| Oh well; off we go |
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| A forgotten crime story |
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| Shipbank Lane again |
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| Off along the Bridgegate we go |
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| Inside the Bridgegate; this is the new Glasgow of style and the arts. . . |
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| . . .and here next door is the old Glasgow. McGhee's - as they say, 'Quality, man'. |
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| Back at St Enoch's |
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| In the background, a sign says 'Well-hung beef' |
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| Potato Soup, Roast Pork and German Goulash. And the best of a Veggie season to you also, mate. Two more posts to go in this series |
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