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Thursday

Not updating you photos will catch up with you… Today I have mostly spent in front of the computer, I did however make it out to the National Portrait Gallery (still not made it to the Chapel of the Hammermen).

National Portrait Gallery, Queen Street. Been here before but not since they refurbished it. Good news is they’ve have not touched the good bits (the Great Hall) and improved the rest. The building itself is impressive before you even start to look at the collection.

A mural in the Great Hall showing Queen Margaret of Scotland landing at Queen's ferry.

I especially like the room dealing with the period of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms but also learnt lots about the Jacobites.

If you do visit make sure you visit Thomas Annan’s Glasgow, photographs of the closes and wynds of old Glasgow.