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Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow

Dumbarton Rock

Dumbarton Castle Esplanade

Dumbarton Football Stadium 'Big Yellow Taxi' - Joni Mitchell on YouTube

Dumbarton

Dumbarton The adapter uses cylindrical lens elements to compress the horizontal field of view by a factor of 1.33x. These elements bend light differently than spherical lenses, especially when bright sources (like the sun or streetlights) hit the glass at an angle. This bending causes internal reflections along the horizontal axis—what we perceive as anamorphic flares.

River Clyde, Dumbarton

Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow The nickname “Clockwork Orange” for the Glasgow Underground comes from a blend of visual design and cultural reference: Origins of the Nickname In the late 1970s, during a major refurbishment of the Glasgow Subway, the new trains were painted in a bright orange livery—officially called *Strathclyde Red*. The system runs in a circular loop, with trains moving both clockwise and counter-clockwise, evoking a sense of mechanical precision—like clockwork. During a visit to the mock-up of the new trains, Sir Peter Parker, then Chair of British Rail, reportedly remarked: “So these are the original Clockwork Orange.” The phrase stuck, blending the orange colour with the idea of a clockwork system, and nodding to Anthony Burgess’s novel and Stanley Kubrick’s film, though the subway has no direct connection to either. Cultural Resonance The nickname adds a layer of quirky charm to one of the world’s oldest underground systems (third after London and Budapest). Despite its compact size and limited reach, the Glasgow Subway remains a symbolic loop through time, especially for locals and psycho-geographers.

Glasgow

Glasgow

Springfield Court, Glasgow