Lex Lamb
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Designer and coder and all that, into places and spaces though mainly local, ancient or modernist. Currently writing a book on the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival.
It's well worth going to Achmelvich, north of Lochinver in Sutherland, for the magnificent setting and the beaches. Tracking down the eccentric and elusive Hermit's Castle on its rocky headland adds even further to the enjoyment. More pics and info: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/lochinver/herm…
I completely agree, and of course inside it has a single bed ‘space’ and a wee hearth! I just managed to squeeze in.
Stonehenge tunnel officially scrapped - after more than £179,000,000 spent on plan lbc.co.uk/article/stoneh…
In the 70s i was a architectural design phenom student who wanted to be a renderer … these are on my moms wall about 44years old. It ll be fun to see how A I can twist em in 2026
Great to meet with @PaulJSweeney today, following the launch of the @TheBDA Scotland manifesto earlier this week. It was good to discuss the importance of dental workforce planning, which is one of our key asks. You can’t have NHS dentistry without NHS dentists.
The Morning Robert Taylor Met the Unknown On the morning of 9 November 1979, in the woodland around Dechmont Law near Livingston, forestry worker Robert Taylor stepped into what would become one of Scotland’s most enduring mysteries. Taylor, who was working for the Livingston Development Corporation and walking with his red setter, later said he encountered a large metallic, dome-like object in a clearing, followed by two smaller spiked spheres that he claimed moved toward him before he lost consciousness. What happened next is the reason the case has never fully faded from public memory. According to the official account later circulated by West Lothian Council, Taylor returned home muddy, shaken and unable to explain his condition in ordinary terms. Police were called, along with a doctor, and officers who examined the site reported unusual markings in the ground, including two ladder-like indentations and dozens of smaller circular holes. Because Taylor appeared injured and his clothing was damaged, the matter was initially treated as a suspected assault, with his clothes sent for forensic examination. More than four decades on, the Dechmont Law incident remains suspended between folklore, criminal inquiry and unexplained testimony. Supporters have long pointed to Taylor’s standing in the community and his refusal to alter his account, while skeptics have argued that medical or environmental explanations cannot be ruled out. No definitive explanation has ever settled the matter, and that uncertainty is precisely what has kept the case alive in the public imagination. Its legacy is now built into the landscape itself. West Lothian Council maintains a Dechmont UFO Trail, and archive records note that press materials on the case were later joined by releases concerning the installation of a plaque at the site in the early 1990s. In other words, whatever happened to Robert Taylor that morning, Dechmont Law has moved beyond a local curiosity and into the strange, stubborn territory of modern Scottish legend. #ufox #ufotwitter
