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This Is My Glasgow

The Linthouse Building at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine. Designed by James Spencer, it was originally constructed in 1872 at the Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyard in the Linthouse area of Glasgow. The yard closed in 1982, and rather than simply being demolished, the building saved and moved to its current location in 1990.

A red brick Victorian shipyard building.
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This Is My Glasgow

I came across this faded mural of Robert Burns on a sea wall on the Ardeer Peninsula in Ayrshire while searching a former explosives factory for one of the few surviving buildings from Glasgow's 1938 Empire Exhibition. Painted in 1996 by the local artist Gavin McInnes, the mural's based on an 1787 composition by Alexander Nasmyth, which is one of the few comtemporary portraits of Scotland's national poet.

A large mural of Robert Burns painted on a sea wall in Ayrshire.
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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 16 February 1925:
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The death is announced of Captain Arthur #Irvine at Timaru on Saturday. Born at Larwick, Shetland Islands, in 1835, the late Captain Irvine was a well-known figure in the New Zealand coastal trade some years back. He went to sea at an early age, and arrived in Australia in 1856, and in. New Zealand four years later. For nine years Captain Irvine was with the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company, Wellington, and during that period rose to the position of chief mate. In 1872 he took charge of the Wanganui-built vessel Tongariro, and later was in the Egmont. He was appointed pilot at #Wanganui in 1878, and shortly afterwards became harbour-master and pilot there, a position which he held for a number of years.
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Black-and-white portrait photo: Harbour-master for 32 years. 1911. Description: Portrait of Captain Irvine, who has resigned from the position of Wanganui harbour-master. He wears a suit with a narrow bow tie and has short hair with a full beard. Citation: The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal, 8 February 1911, p. 26. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections NZG-19110208-0026-01. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/149650
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180 years since the publication of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who attended school for a time in #Irvine #Ayrshire

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MastodonProject Gutenberg (@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!" #OTD in 1845. Edgar Allan Poe first publishes the narrative poem "The Raven", under his own name in The Evening Mirror of New York, of which he is a staff critic until February. It is rapidly reprinted across the United States and appears in book form by the end of the year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven The Raven at PG: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082 https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192 #books #literature #poetry
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