This Is My Glasgow<p>Invented in the 1810s, the heavy coffin-shaped mortsafe was placed over the wooden coffin after interment and left there until the body had decomposed enough to no longer be suitable for dissection. The watchhouse would be occupied for the same period of time. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cadder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowchurches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowchurches</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/mortsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mortsafe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bodysnatchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bodysnatchers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowhistory</span></a> </p>
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This Is My Glasgow<p>A cast iron mortsafe and stone watchhouse in the Cadder Parish Churchyard on the outskirts of Glasgow. These features were designed to thwart the body-snatchers of the early 1800s who would steal the recently buried to sell to local medical schools. </p><p>Cont./</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cadder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowchurches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowchurches</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/mortsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mortsafe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bodysnatchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bodysnatchers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowhistory</span></a> </p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>The memorial to the Cadder Pit Disaster at Lambhill Stables in the north of Glasgow. On the 3rd of August 1913, a fire broke out at Cadder No. 15 Pit, killing 22 of the 26 men who were underground at the time.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/lambhill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lambhill</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cadder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memorial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/lambhillstables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lambhillstables</span></a></p>
LordWoolamaloo<p>Out for stroll with dad at Cadder (once a Roman fort on the Antoine Wall), by the Forth & Clyde Canal. </p><p>Sadly the earlier sunlight had faded, but I was still graced by the lovely calls of birdsong among the trees </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ecosse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/birdsong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birdsong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/arbres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arbres</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cadder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/oiseaux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oiseaux</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>Invented in the 1810s, the extremely heavy coffin-shaped mortsafe was placed over the wooden coffin after interment and left there until the body had decomposed enough to no longer be suitable for dissection. The watchhouse, built in 1828, would be occupied for the same period of time.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cadder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/graveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bodysnatchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bodysnatchers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/mortsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mortsafe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/watchhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>watchhouse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bishopbriggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bishopbriggs</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>A cast iron mortsafe and stone watchhouse in the Cadder Parish Churchyard on the outskirts of Glasgow. These features were designed to thwart the body-snatchers of the early 1800s who would steal the recently buried to sell to local medical schools. </p><p>Cont./</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cadder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/graveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bodysnatchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bodysnatchers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/mortsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mortsafe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/watchhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>watchhouse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bishopbriggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bishopbriggs</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>Cadder Parish Church on the outskirts of Glasgows. The current church was designed by David Hamilton in an Early English style and was built in the 1820s. However, the surrounding churchyard contains a number of older gravestones, indicating that there was a church on this site long before the current one was built.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cadder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bishopbriggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bishopbriggs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/scottishchurches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scottishchurches</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/graveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graveyard</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cemetery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cemetery</span></a></p>
Scottishrebel1903<p>Misty morning in Glasgow. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cemetery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cemetery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cadder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cadder</span></a></p>
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