Robbie Morrison

🥳 🍻 It’ll be the galaxy’s greatest party! We're celebrating 50 years of 2000 AD with a special two-day immersive live extravaganza on 6-7 March in London! Check out the details here https://bit.ly/3VXsbW5

Stramash Hardback is now live on Kickstarter kck.st/3W1atAZ

The classic K6 red telephone kiosks, designed in 1935 by Giles Gilbert Scott, were primarily made by three foundries in central Scotland: MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry in Glasgow, the Lion Foundry in Kirkintilloch, and the Carron Ironworks near Falkirk. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #phonebox

1929 - Bessie Smith - St Louis Blues A standalone performance on set with a story and a cast built around the song, is this the first music video? Cant think of anything with a better claim to the title. Even if you don't think so, what a performance!

That’s me on Sam Slade Robo-Hunter with Garth Ennis, Brian Reber, and Rob Steen! Featuring the Return of Kidd!! Ennis in his geeky reverential mode!

Tomorrow, 2pm! Join me and the mighty @andydiggle.bsky.social at Forbidden Planet Manchester for @2000ad.bsky.social's DAY of DREDD. You have to be there. After all, he is the law!

You all so enjoyed last night's etching of Morrison's Court, here it is again, in 1948. The building facing Argyle Street, with the turnpike stair, was built around 1797, by John Morison, and was then on the extreme western edge of the city. Pic: Daily Record

Hard to believe that it's been eight years since we lost El Maestro – join us today in raising a glass to the memory of Carlos Ezquerra.

I'm joining writer extraordinaire @robbiemorrison.bsky.social for a DAY OF DREDD signing at FORBIDDEN PLANET MANCHESTER at 2pm this Saturday, 3rd October! There are many more Day of Dredd signings all over the UK, so click the link for details of events near you. Attendance is mandatory, citizen!

This week, Frank's taking us to the flicks - and no the 'fancy flicks'! We're off doon a single stair to the Eglinton Electreum. Fleapit or fire-trap? You decide... Pic/text: 'The City That Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981

There are some photos you can practically smell, this is one of them. Taken at the corner of Jamaica and Clyde St (then Great Clyde St), it was part of a series taken in 1914 to highlight traffic congestion, and to support a parliamentary bill for tramway extension 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

After the first one opened on London Road in 1876, public bath and wash houses rapidly became a key part of life in Glasgow, and by 1914, there were 26 of them spread right across the city. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #publicbathhouses #glasgowhistory

Today I'm reading extracts from the memoirs of Detective Archie Carmichael, who served in the City of Glasgow Police from 1859 to 1900. A skilled investigator, his fascinating casebook demonstrates the detective strategies of the time, as well as offering a glimpse of Victorian Glasgow.

Glaswegians didn't need to go to Grenada to visit the Alhambra, they just had to walk along Wellington Street. This week finds Frank bemoaning the sad loss of what was the city's most modern and sophisticated theatre.

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

As @2000ad.bsky.social gears up for its 50th Anniversary next year, I'll be taking part in the Day of Dredd on 3rd October, signing 2pm at Forbidden Planet International, Manchester, alongside @andydiggle.bsky.social. Be there or be square😉!

I love the way the chimney flues have been incorporated into the facade of this tenement on Whitehill Street in the Dennistoun area of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #dennistoun

Another one bites the dust! This week, Frank tells us about the final curtain call at the Grand Theatre in Cowcaddens - oh yes he does... Pic/text: 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981)

Cranes and Ships, Glasgow Docks, 1947, painting by L.S. Lowry, 1887-1976 (Glasgow Museums Resource Centre).

Some weekend listening for me...

Campbell, Reid and Wingate's Egyptian Revival warehouse, built 1914-21, is an imposing sight on Bell St. Difficult to appreciate fully at street level, you only get a sense of the building's scale from the air. #Glasgow #architecture #photography

I just finished reading Edge of the Grave by @robbiemorrison.bsky.social, it's an excellent crime thriller set in 1930s gangland Glasgow. Very highly recommended.

Original wooden panelling revealed during refurbishment work on the outside of Brechin's Bar on Govan Road in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #govan #architecture #architectirephotography #glasgowpubs

Projecting windows on a 1898 blonde sandstone Victorian tenement in the West End of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #tenement #architecturephotography #architecture #windows

On this day in 1897, the foundation stone of the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery was laid by the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Mary). #Glasgow #otd #history #westend #architecture #photography #aerialphotography #drone

End of Empire... This week, Frank's bringing the curtain down on the city's most famous - and feared! - variety theatre, the Glasgow Empire. Pic/text: 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981

Cathedral Court, No 25 Rotten Row, Glasgow, photographed by John Hume in 1970. The open galleries were designed to reduce the risk of transmitting infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis which was very prevalent at the time. #Glasgow

The QE2 prior to launch, John Browns Yard, Clydebank shipyard, Glasgow, 1967, by the great Oscar Marzaroli.

Glasgow's Grand Hotel of 1880 by James Thomson, pictured in 1968. It had 105 rooms, a grand ballroom, a cocktail bar, and nine function rooms, and embodied the opulence and glamour of the Victorian era. In its design, Thomson drew inspiration from the buildings of Paris. #Glasgow

The remains of the railway viaduct running parallel to Osborne Street in Glasgow. This once carried trains from Bellgrove in the east end to the grand St Enoch Station in the city centre. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #saltmarket #railways #oldrailway

The top end of Sauchiehall St, showing Albany Chambers 1896-99 by JJ Burnet on the right and the Grand Hotel in the distance which was demolished in 1969 to make way for the M8. The date of 1892 on the postcard is incorrect. It was manufactured by English firm Judges which didn't exist until 1902.

The former Kelvinhaugh Ferryport to the west of the Clydeside Distillery in Glasgow. From here, foot passengers could cross the Clyde to Highland Lane at the western end of the Govan Graving Docks of the other side. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #clydeferries #kelvinhaugh

Happy 90th birthdays to The Broons and Oor Wullie! 🔗 Click the link below to celebrate Scotland’s Happy Family and Favourite Son with us over on BfS! 🎉 #OorWullie #TheBroons #BooksfromScotland booksfromscotland.com/2026/08/the-...

This week finds Frank hitting the buffers over the loss of the magnificent Botanic Gardens Station. Repurposed in the late 1960s to house the Silver Slipper café, and Morton's plumber's shop on the ground floor, with Sgt. Pepper's nightclub in the roofspace.

The Kinning Park Pumping Station on Milnpark Street in Glasgow. Designed by D. and A. Horne, it was built in the early 1900s. I love the way the roof line mirrors the curves of the windows. #glasgow #kinningpark #industrialheritage #architecture #architecturephotography

Book all but done with a title change! Two 'special' internal pages to finish which I saved as a treat, and the cover is currently underway. It'll go to Kickstarter early Autumn, and I'll set up a pre-launch soon. This is one of the early pages - I will show more eventually - there's 120 of 'em!

For more watery #Glasgow heritage - and future - listen to BBC R4's The People's Pool on the history of Govanhill Baths, the campaign to save it, and the community's on-going care for a historic place of health & leisure. Just out on BBC Sounds! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #Swimmingbaths 2/2

Come on in, the water's lovely! Dip into the Clyde's rich history: ancient kingdoms; majestic liners; return of the salmon; Victorian swimmers (my bit!) & more! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digging-de... 31 Jul, 6pm, free! #Commonwealth #Watershed #rivers #Clyde #SportsHistory #swimming 1/

Pic/text: 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981)

The well-preserved, and still in use, Western Range of Charles Wilson's 1840s Royal Lunatic Asylum in Glasgow, which later became Gartnavel Royal Hospital. By contrast, the Eastern Range lies unused and decaying. #glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #gartnavelhospital #architecturephotography

The city's decline as a major port after WWII led to the home's closure, and it was demolished in 1971. Many early postcard views of the River Clyde were taken from the tower of the Sailor's Home.

More from Glasgow Green and the surrounding area in 1962. Featuring the winter gardens and People's Palace, the recently demolished East Boathouse, scenes of protest, and ladies hanging their washing out on the Green. #Glasgow #1960s #history

Looking along Elmbank St to the Art Deco/Streamline Moderne former Beresford Hotel on Sauchiehall St. Built for the 1938 Empire Exhibition, it featured rooftop kennels for guests travelling with canine companions. It was designed, owned, and operated by William Beresford Inglis.

Hold yer horses! Think week, Frank is feeling unstable at the loss of the Admiral Street Tram Depot. Pic/text: 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981)

The sports retailer Greaves, known to generations of Glaswegians, has been acquired my Mike Ashley's Fraser's Group. The business started life as the Clydesdale Rubber Company, when William Greaves decided to buy out the Birmingham & Leyland Rubber Company, where he had worked as a manager, in 1926

The absolutely 100% accurate & objective & definitive One Hundred Best Novels Ever list. (In no order of preference.) 37. “The Quiet Man”, by Graham Greenen.