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November 29, 2022November 29, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about Leith’s disappeared Eagle Buildings; the company that supplied all the cement for the Forth and first Tay Bridges; and what has been watching you from up high on Rose Street

November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about Alexander Bain, and why his name should be every bit as well known as those of Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell and John Logie Baird

October 30, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Clyde Shipping Company, who plied the Irish Sea for 130 years, serving people and cattle alike

October 17, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Scottish industrialist, the sleepy Ayrshire village, the Spanish aristocrat and groundbreaking work on rotary-winged flight

October 11, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the word “Jakey”; how Prohibition-era American slang was imported into an interwar Glasgow suffering an epidemic of meths drinking

August 29, 2022September 17, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about Creamola Foam and the unpalatable historical skeleton in its family closet

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