tamthebam Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: There's a building on Perth Road in Dundee that has a creepy wee goblin-type thing looking out a window, and some sort of otter or meerkat on its roof (Streetview) I had wondered where Alan Moore was these days 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint dave Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) At the crossroads between Maxwellton St and George St in Paisley is a horseshoe and memorial to where some local women were burned as witches. The local legend was that if the horseshoe was taken away the town would suffer bad luck until returned. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/paisley-witches-memorial Edited October 11, 2020 by saint dave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 3 minutes ago, saint dave said: At the crossroads between Maxwellton St and George St in Paisley is a horseshoe and memorial to where some local women were burned as witches. The local legend was that if the horseshoe was taken away the town would suffer bad luck until returned. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/paisley-witches-memorial That could be the new Hearts badge... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 28 minutes ago, saint dave said: At the crossroads between Maxwellton St and George St in Paisley is a horseshoe and memorial to where some local women were burned as witches. The local legend was that if the horseshoe was taken away the town would suffer bad luck until returned. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/paisley-witches-memorial Based on what I know of Paisley, I can only assume that isn't the original horseshoe 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 The witches were actually hanged and the cadavers were burned. It was the last mass execution of witches in Europe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Arch Stanton said: The witches were actually hanged and the cadavers were burned. It was the last mass execution of witches in Europe. I remember that, just before the 1982 WC? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 The white cross marks the spot where the horseshoe is located, the white area marks the remains of Gallows Green where the women were executed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 4 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: The white cross marks the spot where the horseshoe is located, the white area marks the remains of Gallows Green where the women were executed. It was handy there was a Funeral Director nearby. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 3 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: It was handy there was a Funeral Director nearby. Goudie's has been there for decades. Keegan's is fairly recent, it used to be a pub (Maxwellton Arms then The Mill House). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Goudie's has been there for decades. Keegan's is fairly recent, it used to be a pub (Maxwellton Arms then The Mill House). I wish I'd known about this years ago when I was in Buddies. Edited October 11, 2020 by Sergeant Wilson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 15 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: I remember that, just before the 1982 WC? Helen Duncan, a medium and originally of Craigmillar, was found guilty of witchcraft at the Old Bailey and jailed. This happened in1944.... A strange story to do with wartime paranoia as Duncan had revealed a couple of ships had been sunk by the Germans and the news had been kept from the public for morale purposes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 There's two wrecked RN midget submarines in Aberlady Bay 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 X craft, used to disable the Tirpitz. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 On 10/10/2020 at 00:10, Enigma said: He’s got a bench in Princes Street Gardens too. John Lennon had relatives in Edinburgh and spent a fair amount of time there as a kid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afca32 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 8 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: Aberdeen’s got an example of this too where there was a grand country mansion house that has since found itself slap bang in the middle of a relatively tinky estate. Where is this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 16 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said: John Lennon had relatives in Edinburgh and spent a fair amount of time there as a kid. He stayed in the Murrayfield area (relatives must have been posh) and went to the cinema in Gorgie. I wonder if he ever got dragged along to Tynecastle; the original title of "8 days a week" being "8 games to go"... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Sculpture at the bottom of Loudoun Hill which is actually much bigger than it looks in the picture... ...and the stone at the top of Loudoun Hill which is actually much smaller than it looks in the picture: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaa Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Liberator Bomber crash site at The Fairy Lochs near Gairloch 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Part of a wing from a WW2 aircraft close to Meikle Bin on the Campsies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 And this.. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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