Springburn Park Men’s Shed. Brilliant place. Up my old hunting ground. | Robert Florence

From ruin to renaissance: Glasgow's industrial cathedral rises again Kevin McKenna visits the old Caledonian Railway Company at its St Rollox depot in Springburn 👇 https://trib.al/EJnmNTZ | The Herald

More beautiful Saltire flags have appeared all the way down Springburn Road from the Bishopbriggs side down the duel carriageway towards the city centre. The display of Saltire flags now stretch for miles all over the north of Glasgow. Food poverty, fuel poverty, child poverty are soaring, soaring suicides, soaring drug related deaths, a soaring mental health crisis, soaring unreported crime, a homelessness crisis, a housing stock crisis, police stations closing, long NHS waiting lists costing l

Bert Jansch was born in the Springburn district of Glasgow, on 3 November 1943, the descendant of a family originally from Hamburg, Germany, who settled in Scotland during the Victorian era. Jansch’s most notable contribution was his highly innovative and aggressive fingerpicking style, which was a hallmark of the 1960s British folk revival. He is celebrated as one of the most influential acoustic guitarists of the 20th century, known for his technical skill and distinctive fingerstyle technique