Robbie Morrison
@robbiemorrison.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Edge of the Grave (Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel 2021); Cast a Cold Eye (Shortlisted for McIllvanney Prize 2023). Comics: Nikolai Dante, Doctor Who, Judge Dredd, Drowntown, Heretic, etc.
1929 - Bessie Smith - St Louis Blues A standalone performance on set with a story and a cast built around the song, is this the first music video? Cant think of anything with a better claim to the title. Even if you don't think so, what a performance!
That’s me on Sam Slade Robo-Hunter with Garth Ennis, Brian Reber, and Rob Steen! Featuring the Return of Kidd!! Ennis in his geeky reverential mode!
2000 AD Comics@2000ad.bsky.social · 2w agoThe 2000 AD Annual 2027 hits shelves on the 25th November - featuring ROBO-HUNTER: YA GOTTA BE KIDDING ME, by: 📝 Script: Garth Ennis ✏️ Art: @theburnham.bsky.social 🎨 Colours: @rebervision.bsky.social 💬 Letters: @robsteen.bsky.social Pre-Order Today! https://bit.ly/4xka0rk
Tomorrow, 2pm! Join me and the mighty @andydiggle.bsky.social at Forbidden Planet Manchester for @2000ad.bsky.social's DAY of DREDD. You have to be there. After all, he is the law!
You all so enjoyed last night's etching of Morrison's Court, here it is again, in 1948. The building facing Argyle Street, with the turnpike stair, was built around 1797, by John Morison, and was then on the extreme western edge of the city. Pic: Daily Record
Hard to believe that it's been eight years since we lost El Maestro – join us today in raising a glass to the memory of Carlos Ezquerra.
I'm joining writer extraordinaire @robbiemorrison.bsky.social for a DAY OF DREDD signing at FORBIDDEN PLANET MANCHESTER at 2pm this Saturday, 3rd October! There are many more Day of Dredd signings all over the UK, so click the link for details of events near you. Attendance is mandatory, citizen!
2000 AD Comics@2000ad.bsky.social · last mo.The Day of Dredd Arrives on 3rd October 2026! Today we're announcing the creators and locations who'll be taking part in The Day of Dredd, an international celebration of the ultimate lawman of the future, next month! Full Details: https://bit.ly/4gTHRAt
This week, Frank's taking us to the flicks - and no the 'fancy flicks'! We're off doon a single stair to the Eglinton Electreum. Fleapit or fire-trap? You decide... Pic/text: 'The City That Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981
There are some photos you can practically smell, this is one of them. Taken at the corner of Jamaica and Clyde St (then Great Clyde St), it was part of a series taken in 1914 to highlight traffic congestion, and to support a parliamentary bill for tramway extension 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow
After the first one opened on London Road in 1876, public bath and wash houses rapidly became a key part of life in Glasgow, and by 1914, there were 26 of them spread right across the city. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #publicbathhouses #glasgowhistory
Today I'm reading extracts from the memoirs of Detective Archie Carmichael, who served in the City of Glasgow Police from 1859 to 1900. A skilled investigator, his fascinating casebook demonstrates the detective strategies of the time, as well as offering a glimpse of Victorian Glasgow.
Glaswegians didn't need to go to Grenada to visit the Alhambra, they just had to walk along Wellington Street. This week finds Frank bemoaning the sad loss of what was the city's most modern and sophisticated theatre.
Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth
As @2000ad.bsky.social gears up for its 50th Anniversary next year, I'll be taking part in the Day of Dredd on 3rd October, signing 2pm at Forbidden Planet International, Manchester, alongside @andydiggle.bsky.social. Be there or be square😉!
2000 AD Comics@2000ad.bsky.social · last mo.The Day of Dredd Arrives on 3rd October 2026! Today we're announcing the creators and locations who'll be taking part in The Day of Dredd, an international celebration of the ultimate lawman of the future, next month! Full Details: https://bit.ly/4gTHRAt
I love the way the chimney flues have been incorporated into the facade of this tenement on Whitehill Street in the Dennistoun area of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #dennistoun
Another one bites the dust! This week, Frank tells us about the final curtain call at the Grand Theatre in Cowcaddens - oh yes he does... Pic/text: 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981)
Cranes and Ships, Glasgow Docks, 1947, painting by L.S. Lowry, 1887-1976 (Glasgow Museums Resource Centre).
Campbell, Reid and Wingate's Egyptian Revival warehouse, built 1914-21, is an imposing sight on Bell St. Difficult to appreciate fully at street level, you only get a sense of the building's scale from the air. #Glasgow #architecture #photography
I just finished reading Edge of the Grave by @robbiemorrison.bsky.social, it's an excellent crime thriller set in 1930s gangland Glasgow. Very highly recommended.
Original wooden panelling revealed during refurbishment work on the outside of Brechin's Bar on Govan Road in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #govan #architecture #architectirephotography #glasgowpubs
Projecting windows on a 1898 blonde sandstone Victorian tenement in the West End of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #tenement #architecturephotography #architecture #windows
On this day in 1897, the foundation stone of the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery was laid by the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Mary). #Glasgow #otd #history #westend #architecture #photography #aerialphotography #drone
End of Empire... This week, Frank's bringing the curtain down on the city's most famous - and feared! - variety theatre, the Glasgow Empire. Pic/text: 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' by Frank Worsdall (1981
Cathedral Court, No 25 Rotten Row, Glasgow, photographed by John Hume in 1970. The open galleries were designed to reduce the risk of transmitting infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis which was very prevalent at the time. #Glasgow
The QE2 prior to launch, John Browns Yard, Clydebank shipyard, Glasgow, 1967, by the great Oscar Marzaroli.
Glasgow's Grand Hotel of 1880 by James Thomson, pictured in 1968. It had 105 rooms, a grand ballroom, a cocktail bar, and nine function rooms, and embodied the opulence and glamour of the Victorian era. In its design, Thomson drew inspiration from the buildings of Paris. #Glasgow
The remains of the railway viaduct running parallel to Osborne Street in Glasgow. This once carried trains from Bellgrove in the east end to the grand St Enoch Station in the city centre. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #saltmarket #railways #oldrailway
