Collection of National Significance.
Great to read this morning that the University of St Andrews Photography Collection, which in 2021 acquired the complete archive of my photographic career, has been formally recognised as being a Collection of National Significance by Museums and Galleries Scotland.
Paddy’s Market
“The type of place you go to buy one shoe lace”, was how Paddy’s Market was once described to me. But your opportunity to buy that shoe lace, or the second of the pair, is now gone, the famous and historic Paddy’s Market was finally closed down on this day in May 2009 by Glasgow City Council.
Trainspotting - 30 years on.
“I thought Trainspotting would be a cult book, but not generation-defining’, said Scottish author Irvine Welsh about his generation-defining novel of thirty-three years ago. I wonder then how he’d feel knowing the movie (of the book), released thirty years ago today, is still discussed, still highly regarded as a cultural touchstone of that period…