Someone has quite a few Christmas lights

More frustration in Baillieston, as the condensation haze continues to cause problems.

It’s just so slow to clear if it does make an appearance, and this was after more than an hour, on what I would have said was not a bad day, just hovering on being really damp around the dew point.

I can apply some corrections, but it’s impossible to raise any shadow details as the result is just to return any of the haze I’ve just cut down by processing the image.

Oh well.

It’s becoming a real pain.

I have accessories, and methods to combat this – but they all need to be invoked hours before venturing out to be effective.

Unfortunately, heading to the shops and grabbing a camera doesn’t allow for that

😩

Baillieston Christmas Tree – or is that ‘trees’?

First ‘community’ Christmas tree of 2025 is from Baillieston, and I may not collect many this year as it looks as if my travel is restricted.

It was lucky I grabbed a camera as I headed to the shops, and spotted the top of the tree with its light on as I looked along the road.

Interesting to see they’ve shelved their coloured LEDs of recent years, and have now gone with all white.

Thank goodness they’ve gone with draping the lights around the tree.

I was beginning to think everyone was stuck with the straight lines of lights running from the top of the tree to the bottom.

I made a point of including ‘trees’ in the title because the ‘Christmas tree’ I recently spotted planted in the grassy area is still there, but is NOT the tree with the lights. The council is still bringing one in for that job.

This pic shows both trees, with the lit one on the left, and the ‘natural’ on the right.

Maybe they’re waiting for it to grow up into a big strong tree, that can hold up those heavy lights all on its own 🎄

Sorry

I left the main image too big, and it ended up noisy after it was compressed to reduce its file size ☹

Easy trap to fall into when the original comes out fairly well, and you forget what can STILL go wrong afterwards.

Frank Hamilton, Baillieston optician, closed

I’ve been trying to collect these pics for weeks, but somehow never ended up in Baillieston with a camera.

That said, I did catch the place in some night shots, but if you find them, you’ll find they were pretty poor, being mostly test shots for camera evaluation.

Finally, I’ve got the pics I wanted, including the letter and sticker in the window.

As will be seen from the latter, this business has been a near permanent fixture in Baillieston’s Main Street, and if you check Google’s Street View, you’ll find it attached to a house, on its left.

I had always assumed the two were connected, and how handy it was to have your work connected to your home – no travelling time – but found this assumption (as it seems most are) to be wrong some years ago (when I became acquainted with the owner, and found out he lived elsewhere). In fact, he was neighbour to someone I knew in Baillieston, and lived just a few streets away, but NOT in the attached house.

Facade detail.

The same letter was placed in each window, explaining the closure, and other details.

The other item in the window was a college crest.

What happened to 77 South Scott Street?

Being curious, I looked for 77 South Scott Street, to see where things began.

Initially, I couldn’t find it!

The number appeared to lie between two semi-detached houses, which can be seen in aerial views, and appeared to jump from 73 and 75 to 79 and 81.

However, this was an anomaly cause by the first semi being not two houses built together, but FOUR!

Two face into South Scott Street and have conventional entrances, numbers 73 and 75, while two others are built to either side, into the gable ends of the building with their entrances on the sides, being numbers 71 and 77.

I almost missed this, as I was initially just looking from the road – it was only after I glanced at the gable ends of the building, and noticed the entrance doors! Later, I spotted the small hose numbers, on the corners/edges, facing into the street

Although I’d managed to dig up the 1967 OS map of the area, which is out of copyright, it only showed the houses that had been added since 1945, but not the numbers, Final confirmation came when I zoomed into a modern line drawing of the street, and it resolved into the four street numbers of that particular building.