Denny's uk Glasgow, Braehead Shopping Centre, Experience and Review
Denny's uk Glasgow, Braehead Shopping Centre, Experience and Review
I went for breakfast at Denny's uk Glasgow. I had a grand slam which included sausages, hash browns,toast and some buttermilk pancakes with maple syrup and bottomless coffee. During this video I show and discuss my experience. She the menu and give my honest opinion.
I also visit Krispy kreme where I have an iced mocha and discuss what I think of it.
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Places to see in ( Renfrew - UK )
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Renfrew west of Glasgow, and the historical county town of Renfrewshire. Called the Cradle of the Royal Stewarts for its early link with Scotland's former royal house, Renfrew gained royal burgh status in 1397. As the county town, Renfrew once was a centre of local government for the surrounding area. Whilst the county remained known as Renfrewshire, the focus of local government gradually shifted from Renfrew to its larger neighbour Paisley. Following the reorganisation of 1996, Renfrewshire was divided for local government purposes into three modern council areas: Renfrewshire, with considerably smaller boundaries than the old county, including Renfrew and with its administrative centre at Paisley; Inverclyde with its centre at Greenock, covering the western part of the county; and East Renfrewshire, with its centre at Giffnock. The boundaries of the historic County of Renfrew remain for a number of ceremonial and administrative purposes.
The name Renfrew comes from the Old British rhyn frwd meaning point at the current; the River Cart enters the Clyde by the town. Renfrew's recorded history began with the granting of land in the area to Walter fitz Alan, the High Steward of Scotland by King David I in the 12th century. The strategic location of this castle was to prevent the eastern expansion of the lordship belonging to Somerled, the Lord of the Isles, and to protect western Scotland from Norse invaders. Eventually the hereditary title of High Steward came to form the surname Stewart.
Renfrew Castle was situated in what is now part of the well-known Braehead shopping complex. It was located on the King's inch or King's island. This location both added to the castle's defences but also added to its strategic positioning on the Clyde. Many street names close to this area demonstrate the survival of knowledge of this citadel. 'Orchard Street' is a reference to the royal orchards for example.
Later in the 12th century, King Malcolm IV, grandson of David, finally demanded Somerled's fealty. In 1164, Somerled sailed to Renfrew and attacked an assembling Scottish army in a conflict known as the Battle of Renfrew. The outcome was a defeat of the Lordship of the Isles and the death of Somerled. The Lords of the Isles were eventually stripped of their lands and titles in 1493, as a consequence of conspiring with an earlier King of England (Edward IV) to overthrow the Scottish monarchy. Since that time, Lord of the Isles - as with Baron of Renfrew - has been a courtesy title of the heir to the throne and both are currently held by The Prince Charles, heir to Queen Elizabeth II.
The role of the Stewarts continued to grow and in 1315 Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward married Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce. Their son succeeded to the throne as Robert II of Scotland. During the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll was injured and captured at Renfrew before being transported to Edinburgh and executed for his role in attempting to overthrow the Crown. The Argyle Stones in the town mark the site where his capture took place.
The M8 motorway intersects Renfrew and two junctions at Arkleston and Braehead provide access to the town, with the neighbouring town of Paisley largely lying on the opposite side. The former Renfrew Airport was located to the south of the town (only a couple of miles from the present Glasgow Airport). The site of the terminal building is now occupied by a Tesco supermarket.[9] The Renfrew Ferry connects to Yoker on the north bank of the Clyde, with the crossing taking a few minutes to make. Renfrew was also once served by a series of stations on a branch of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. However it was closed to passengers in 1967.
Renfrew is served by the McGills bus company which operates regular services to the Braehead Shopping Centre, and has various routes that pass through Renfrew connecting Erskine, Glasgow city centre, Paisley, and Govan. A service operated by First Glasgow buses also passes through part of the town on its way between Glasgow airport and the city.
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Colin Renfrew - Work with the Ancient Monuments Board for England (52/79)
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Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn is one of the most eminent archaeologists in the world today. His prolific work includes innovations in the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites. [Listener: Paul Bahn]
TRANSCRIPT: Before moving to Cambridge from Southampton, I'd got a little bit involved in the politics of archaeology as it were because I was made a member of the Ancient Monuments Board for England, which at that time advised the Ministry of Works - that was how it was organised in those days - and the Ministry of Works looked after the monuments in the care of the nation, like Stonehenge and Avebury and so on, the so-called guardianship monuments. Now, but it also advised on monuments that should not be destroyed but were not in care, the so-called scheduled monuments because they were on a schedule of the nation's important monuments and this was a time that rescue archaeology was getting underway. Peter Addyman and Martin Biddle and others had really made a great effort and it was recognised or became recognised largely through their efforts, that if motorways were going to be built and they were going to bulldoze through archaeological sites, there ought to be excavation in advance of that so that the information would be rescued. And that was developing but the Ministry of Works was rather slow to respond so it was an interesting experience to sit on the Ancient Monuments Board, which at that time was a very, very conventional body. It was chaired by a distinguished old gentleman, Sir Edward Muir, who had been the principal secretary or the chief civil servant in the Ministry of Works, and most of its consideration was whether we should schedule this monument or that monument and dusty files were produced and it was agreed probably we would schedule this one but the landowner wasn't too happy about that one and so on, and only very slowly did the realities of contemporary archaeology enter the Ancient Monuments Board. And I remember very clearly that probably in my first year on the Ancient Monuments Board, I think it was about 1974, we all solemnly went down to Stonehenge and we all agreed that it was a bad business that the road goes through Stonehenge, the A344, isn't it, the one that actually goes through the monument and how nice it would be if that could be closed and, and if a proper visitors' centre could be built because the existing one was getting rather tatty and the car park was too small and so on, and I remember the minister for culture, junior minister, Alma Birk, Lady Birk, this was a, the Labour government at the time, came down and we all met and we agreed that Stonehenge should be a first priority for national attention. And I mention that with emphasis because the story continues, and when the Conservative government had come in and Michael Heseltine was Secretary, Secretary of State for the Environment, and the Ancient Monuments Board met with him, he was much more dynamic and wanted to revise the system and it was no longer the Ministry of Works by then, it was part of the Department of the Environment, the archaeology section, and he agreed yes, Stonehenge should be a first priority for the nation and he was responsible for completely restructuring the way the heritage was dealt with in this country and passed the legislation setting up the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England and Lord Montagu, Edward Montagu, was made the first chairman of the commission and I became one of the commissioners, one of the foundation commissioners. And so we had a lot of time discussing what the new organisation should be, should be called and we had consultants who finally came up with the theory that it should be called English Heritage, which we agreed after some discussion. Not everybody was happy with the word Heritage and a logo was established and so on, and so Edward Montagu proclaimed that the flagship operation for English Heritage would be Stonehenge and we all went down and had meetings with the villagers to explain that the A344 should be closed even though they argued it would take a fire engine three minutes longer to reach the village in the case of emergency, should this happen and so on. And so my experience of the politics of archaeology, which has been a continuing one has in that sense been a frustrating one because after Edward Montagu, it was Sir Jocelyn Stevens who was the chairman of English Heritage and he reasserted that this was the flagship monument of the commission...
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Among the things I left out of this video were breaking and entering into a tube station, trekking around Glasgow in the wind and rain with a rolling duffle suitcase, and almost missing my flight to Scotland. BUT of the things I did include: funny faces in the hotel, chat about my plans for the weekend, and some pretty cool street performers. This experience was an incredible one. I'm so glad I had the chance to travel alone because it taught me a very important lesson about myself and gave me the time I needed to have deeper thoughts. Every now and again it is certain that a person needs a push to identify how they will respond to a pressing situation. Being alone for a weekend meant I had no one to turn to to ask for help. Whether it was navigating my way through the city or having to force my way into a small bathroom stall with all of my luggage in tow, I had to be self-sufficient and strategic. These were qualities I know I already had but definitely added to. Having a better understanding of what I'm capable of is a great feeling - even if it means I had to make a lot of mistakes along the way. I took the time to do something I love doing, seeing and assessing films. I was surrounded by people who loved doing the same thing and this made the experience even better. My weekend in Glasgow was great. Until I got back to London, took the wrong train, and had to take 3 buses and a taxi to get home (these are the mistakes I was talking about). But I was lovingly welcomed back home by my flatmate Emily and it was good to be back in London!
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7 reasons why I HATE the CINEMA
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The first Odeon cinema was opened by Oscar Deutsch in 1928, in Brierley, Staffordshire, although initially called Picture House. The first cinema to use the Odeon brand name was Deutsch's cinema at Perry Barr, Birmingham in 1930. Ten years later Odeon was part of the Rank Organisation who continued their ownership of the circuit for a further sixty years. Through a number of sales and acquisitions in the early 2000s the company was purchased by Terra Firma, which merged Odeon and UCI Cinemas to form Odeon UCI Cinemas Group. Most UCI cinemas then took the Odeon brand name in 2006. Terra Firma sold the company to AMC Theatres in November 2016.
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The Val D'Oro restaurant has been decorated over many years by the proprietor Luigi, with framed black and white photographs and ephemera documenting a history of Glasgow and the generations of the Corvi family who have run the chippy.
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Colin Renfrew - The interaction between modern art and archaeology (68/79)
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Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn is one of the most eminent archaeologists in the world today. His prolific work includes innovations in the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites. [Listener: Paul Bahn]
TRANSCRIPT: So then the way artists use artefacts. Tony Cragg makes strange creations of glass bottles or plastic containers and so on, and that leads to the focus of the, the use by artists of material culture and that very much ties in with Eduardo Paolozzi's work as a sculptor. He's always worked really in collage and put together objects and then often cast the end product and done a bronze out of that just as his graphic work is literally collage, cutting up bits of paper and so on. That was the way - he was one of the leading initial figures in, in pop art. So there really turned out to be a lot of ideas that I thought would make an interesting course of lectures, which I think were successful enough and then Thames & Hudson published those in a book, which I called Figuring it Out, and I found it really quite a liberating experience to be thinking in this way about how we interact with the material world, the material engagement process as I think of it, and the experience takes one a little bit outside the very linear thinking, the very logical thinking of what do we do next. And so on in a very logical way and allows one to interact emotionally if you like, certainly interact directly with the sculptures or with the material artefacts that you're finding and that started, for me opened up new avenues in thinking, which in some ways are not so remote from those of some of the interpretive archaeology school who also favour sort of non-linear and sometimes rather empathetic and reactive approaches. But in my case I was able to feel that I was looking on this as a source of ideas and inspirations to apply to the material record but not to construct some alternative logic. I still very much believe in the principles of processual archaeology and trying to develop a, a coherent theoretical framework into which we can integrate our understanding, our developing understanding or our construction of our view of the past, so I rather dislike the rejection of the interpretive archaeologists of the achievements of the processual archaeology. I rather disapprove of their rejection of the philosophy of science as a, the right way of thinking about how we go about constructing the past, so that element of their work, their rejection of processual archaeology has always rather disappointed me, and I've not been happy with it. On the other hand one has to say that some of the more original thinkers have moved in very interesting directions. Chris Tilley has written very well about how he responds to monuments and to, to the landscape, so-called phenomenological approach, and mainly working in the British Neolithic, people like Julian Thomas or John Barrett have I think developed very interesting ideas, as has a former student of mine, a Matthew Johnston talking about the medieval period and though all of those are definitely self-avowed post processual archaeologists, I think I can almost forgive them that they're post-processual and in that sense I would say anti-processual because I think they're contributing something new, but as I, as I see it, what needs contributing is adding to the possibilities of processual archaeology rather than seeking to replace it. Maybe it doesn't make so much difference after all in, in the end, but I found that really a, a very refreshing experience and writing about that, indeed the lecture I gave, which, which went down best, I think, in the Edinburgh Rhind lectures, was when I was talking a little about the actual experience of, of digging and the way when you're digging, you're interacting with the soil and you're scraping the surface and so on, your interaction with the material, which of course applies at different scales. You interact sometimes through the microscope or you interact through aerial photography and I had an interesting experience with Kate Whiteford who's a very interesting sculptor when I was visiting the British school at Rome when she was an artist in residence and she was at that time, getting very intrigued by aerial photographs and we did a little publication together, which I suggested we should call Remote Sensing where it had her, her photographs and her drawings inspired by aerial photographs, which was, which was fun to do and so that was a case where we interact at different scales...
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Colin Renfrew - The Theoretical Archaeology Group (46/79)
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Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn is one of the most eminent archaeologists in the world today. His prolific work includes innovations in the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites. [Listener: Paul Bahn]
TRANSCRIPT: It was while we were in Southampton that a colleague of mine from Sheffield days, Andrew Fleming, and I, founded the Theoretical Archaeology Group and that, I think, partly came about through the experience of the Society for American Archaeology, the SAA meetings, in the United States, which in the '70s and '80s always seemed to be really very lively, I think because in those days they were talking about theoretical issues a great deal and debating issues that arose from the new archaeology, how you could give a better basis for the statements, how could you apply statistical techniques in your sampling. There were some really very good ideas going on which is less so in the United States today when the SAA meetings devote themselves mainly to what they call salvage archaeology what we call rescue archaeology, rather more practical issues whereas in Britain at that time, the archaeological lectures always seemed terribly sedate. The Society of Antiquaries who got some description of some detailed finds, very interesting, and even at the Prehistoric Society which is where you ought to have very lively debates about how to interpret things, it always seemed to be very descriptive and with few exceptions not really very challenging intellectually and so we were impressed by the - also by the circumstance that in the Society for American Archaeology meetings, you had quite a lot of graduate students speaking not just very wise and old heads, so Andrew and I decided that we would get something going and we started off with a meeting in Southampton where we invited all the research students and the staff from Sheffield, not a huge number, four or five staff, and seven or eight research students at that time, down to Southampton, and they were found accommodation and people in Southampton provided the meals and we had a two day meeting when many of the research students of both departments would give some account of their work and of the problems they were addressing and so did the staff of the departments, with a lot of time allowed for discussion. And we thought that was really interesting. We got really pleased about that so the following year we did the same thing in Sheffield, they were the hosts, and again there was room for accommodation and meals to be provided and this time we made - we did something which changed the course of the situation, we decided to invite one of the interesting theorists from the Institute of Archaeology in London, Mike Rowlands, to take part and he did take part and but became rather angry that we were having these meetings behind closed doors, one in Southampton and then one in Sheffield, and this was outrageous and why were we such a closed shop and we should be ashamed of ourselves, and so as a result of that, the next year we had a - the first meeting, national meeting, of the Theoretical Archaeology group which we proclaimed ourselves to be, so we invited all and sundry to enrol and to come but we retained some of the things, most people stayed in university accommodation which they paid for but for impecunious research students, there was still accommodation on floors, bring a sleeping bag, sleep on somebody's floor, and we kept the subscription fee very low and it was possible to get food locally quite inexpensively, and we tried also to encourage graduate students to speak about their work and also to allow a lot of time for discussion and so I forget which year the first TAG was but it must have been in the late 1970s anyway, 1979-1980, something like that and it really took off and each year it goes to a different university department who are the hosts. We had one quite early on in Glasgow and later on one in Cambridge and then to quite smaller universities like Lampeter, it's been to Lampeter twice, and it's turned into something on the archaeological scene because it's a wonderful forum and one does deliberately hear quite extravagant ideas or interesting theoretical ideas. This was just the time that in England there was a reaction developing against the so-called new archaeology, against processual archaeology, which was felt to have too firm a basis in scientific approaches and too much fuss about ecology and subsistence, the food basis and so on, which, indeed, did characterise quite a lot of the new archaeology in the Americas at that time...
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