Tag: Lanark Conservation Area
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1 – 43 West Port, Lanark
West Port, Lanark is the sixth drawing in my Lanark street series. Lanark had four town gates: West Port, East Port, Wellgate and Castlegate. The gate that once stood at West Port has long gone having been demolished in the late 1700s.
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Flowers by Lesley to Flowers of Scotland
There’s something uplifting to see flowers out on the high street, especially at this time of year. To continue where I left off on the last blog post, this is Flowers by Lesley Strachan, on Lanark High Street, always a welcome blaze of colour whatever the season. Established in 1853 Brooks is one of Scotland’s…
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Bloomgate to High Street, Lanark
Where Bloomgate meets Wide Close, the street narrows into a bottle neck where traffic slows to pass along this ancient route alongside St Nicholas Church. I have covered the rest of Bloomgate in earlier drawings and blog posts (here and here). The last few buildings on Bloomgate are home to Kass Hair & Beauty and…
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Bloomgate: St Nicholas to Greyfriars
We are in the week running up to Christmas 2019. It seems timely to begin this post with this drawing of St Nicholas’s Church Lanark. The links and legends associated with St Nicholas and Santa Claus are too many to touch on here but he’s not just associated with gifts at Christmas – St Nicholas…
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Drawing a Scottish Street: Bloomgate, Lanark
Scotland is an ongoing adventure but leaving Staffordshire was quite a tug. After living 24 years in the area you can imagine that the hardest part was saying goodbye to friends and all those people that make up the fabric of the day – the chap collecting the trolleys at Tesco, the kind Pharmacist at…
Drawing the Detail 