Dulnain Bridge Church Hall – a tin tabernacle in Speyside – has been put on the market by the Church…
Scotland’s UFO Trail
Dechmont Wood, in West Lothian, is home to the country’s only UFO trail, a route inspired by an alleged encounter…
The Faces Land, a Dundee Curiosity
Numbers 11-19 North Ellen Street, Dundee, are fairly unique in terms of tenement architecture in Scotland. For the sturdy sandstone…
The Howff – Convener’s Stone
Explorers of Dundee’s famous Howff will discover that not every stone within the cemetery marks a tomb. One, tucked away…
North Carr Lightship
Currently berthed in Dundee’s West Victoria Dock, the North Carr is Scotland’s last surviving lightship. However, her future was thrown…
Abandoned Govan dock to re-open
Plans to restore and re-open a long-abandoned maritime facility on the River Clyde in Glasgow have been given the go-ahead…
Dunoon’s Puffin Rock
A colourful painted rock on the shoreline at Dunoon has become a firm favourite with tourists, but many don’t know…
Abandoned Glasgow school demolished
One of Glasgow’s best known abandoned buildings, the former Sir John Stirling Maxwell School, in the southside of the city,…
Censoring Britain’s worst rail disaster
An ‘utter wastage of the stuff of heroism’ was how the Daily Record described Britain’s worst railway disaster. Hundreds of…
Tomatin tin tabernacle relocated
Back in 2016, when I was researching my book Tin Tabernacles and other Corrugated Iron Buildings in Scotland, I pulled…
