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This Is My Glasgow' is a photographic project from Colin M. Drysdale, author of 'The Outbreak', a Glasgow-based zombie apocalypse novel. Unless otherwise stated, all photos are my own.

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thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Today started off rather overcast here in Glasgow, but by the end, it had developed into a rather wonderful day!

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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One of the best things about living in Glasgow is turning a corner and finding yourself looking up at a roof like this!

The former Ogg Brothers Department Store at Paisley Road Toll was designed by Bruce and Hay, and was built in the 1880s. It's topped by the Spirit of Commerce and Industry, who is perhaps better known as the Kinning Park Angel, the Angel of the South, or simply Mrs. Ogg.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Commemorative stone on Mavisbank Gardens in Glasgow marking the commissioning and construction of the Cessnock Dock, later renamed the Prince's Dock, on the south bank of the Clyde. With 35 acres of water, it was the largest dock on the upper Clyde and it cost almost £1,000,000 build and equip. It closed in the 1970s and in the 1980s, it was filled in. In 1988, it formed the site for the Glasgow Garden Festival.

#glasgow #glasgowhistory #princesdock #glasgowgardenfestival #kingston

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Santa seems to have pissed off someone in Tradeston in Glasgow!

#glasgow #glasgowhumour #tradeston #santa #santaclaus

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Yet another old Glasgow building which looks like it could soon be lost. On the corner of Wallace Street and Centre Street in Tradeston, it was damaged by fire earlier today. This isn't a listed building, and it's not of historic importance, but none-the-less it's part of the city's heritage and it was one I always admired whenever I passed it.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #fire #buildingphotography #glasgowhistory #glasgowheritage

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@GlasWolf Potentially. I know the owners were recently forced to make structural repairs to it by building control, and that does seem a litle too coincidental.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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James Sellars' 1888 Anderson College of Medicine om Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. Sellars is a highly underrated Glasgow architect, and if you're interested in learning more about his work, there'a a free talk on at thr Mitchell Library in Glasgow today (16 May 2024) at 6pm. More info can be found at:

https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-life-and-work-of-james-sellars.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowarchitecture #jamessellars

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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It's great to see Clarke and Bell's Art Nouveau style saloon bar on Dumbarton Road in Partick finally getting a decent make-over. Built for Philip MacSorley (who also owned MacSorley's on Jamaica Street) in 1900 on the site of an older pub called the Clan Vaults, it's previously been known as The Roost, Wall Street, The Exchequer, The Fitter and Firkin, The Clinic and Boho.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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How can you fail to love a city which has decorations like this not on a castle, or a grand mansion or its town hall, but on a tenement building? This is part of W.M. Whyte's 1905 Scots Baronial tenement on Broomhill Drive in Glasgow.

#glasgow #broomhill #glasgowtenement #tenement #architecture #glasgowbuilding #scotsbaronial #architecturephotography #windows

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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I love these bronze portraits you get on Victorian gravestones as they provide a great snapshot of the fashions of the past, especially of male facial hair. This is the Reverend John Stark, minister in Duntocher, who died in the 1880s and is buried in the Old Kilpatrick Church Yard.

#glasgow #history #oldkilpatrick #victoriangravestone #gravestone #cemetery

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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James Salmon Junior's rather beautiful 1900 Glasgow Style British Linen Bank building, one of the very few traditional red sandstone tenements left standing in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Sometimes it seems the past is a luxury only the rich get to keep.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #thegorbals #glasgowstyle

thisismyglasgow, (edited ) to glasgow
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I love these metal relief sculptures of fish on the fence of a modern tenement-style building on Cumberland Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. They feature a trout or salmon (top left), a stickleback (top right), a grayling (bottom left) and a pike (bottom right).

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Saint Paul's Church on Dumbarton Road in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow. Designed in a Basilican-type style by Reginald Fairlie and Partners, it was built in the late 1950s and features stained glass by Gabriel Loire of Chartres.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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An old Fire Point (FP) style fire hydrant cover on Old Rutherglen Road in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. It seems that this cover has somehow survived the wholesale destruction of the Gorbals in the 1960s, and the more recent round of redevelopments from the 1990s onwards.

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Once a common sight on British streets, in some places such FP covers were used as the basis for a kid's game where if you noticed someone was standing on one, you got to give them a Free Punch (FP). When these covers were replaced with modern ones embossed with FH, for Fire Hydrant, the game was quickly changed to Free Hit! I've no idea if this game was ever played in Glasgow.

thisismyglasgow,
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@lighthouseahoy I love that idea! I'd have used it with my kids when they were younger. 👍🙂

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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The former Hutchesontown District Library on the southside of Glasgow. It was designed by J.R. Rhind in a French Renaissance style and was built in 1904. It's topped with a winged figure by William Kellock Brown.

#glasgow #architecture #library #glasgowbuildings

thisismyglasgow, (edited ) to glasgow
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Kilmardinny House in Bearsden on the outskirts of Glasgow. Dating from the late 1700s, this Georgian mansion has been owned by a variety of Glasgow merchants, including William Brown of Kilmardinny, the Dean of Guild for the city. Brown purchased the house in the 1830s using compensation he received as a slave-owner following the abolition of slavery in the British colonies in 1838.

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Browm sold in Kilmardinny in 1844, and shortly after lost much of his wealth when the railway bubble of the 1840s, in which he'd heavily invested, finally burst in the 1850s.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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The coat of arms of the Merchants' House of Glasgow on the gates at the main entrance to the Necropolis. Below this is the name William Brown, a Scottish merchant and philanthropist who was the Dean of Guild at the time the gates were created. Designed by David and James Hamilton, the gates date from 1838 and were originally set at the western end of the Bridge of Sighs leading over the Molendinar Ravine which separates the Catherdral and the Necropolis.

#glasgow #necropolis #ironwork

thisismyglasgow, (edited ) to glasgow
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The City of Glasgow coat of arms on a branch of the Savings Bank of Glasgow on Clarkston Road in Cathcart. Designed in a Renaissance style by Paterson and Stoddart, the bank was built in the 1920s.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #cathcart

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Early 1900s Free Style tenement on Great Western Road in the Anniesland area of Glasgow. Designed in a similar style to Anniesland Mansions which stand opposite and were probably designed by H. Campbell.

#glasgow #architecture #tenement #glasgowtenement #glasgowbuildings #anniesland

thisismyglasgow, (edited ) to glasgow
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Six of the most decorative Tontine Heads. Dating from the 19th Century, these heads originally adorned keystones of arches in the Tontine Hotel at Glasgow Cross. They're now housed in the Provand's Lordship, Glasgow's oldest house, on Castle Street.

#glasgow #sculpture #tontineheads #provandslordship

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Jordanvale House on Dumbarton Road in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow. One of the oldest buildings in the local area, it dates back to at least the 1830s. It's now used as the presbytery of the neighbouring Saint Paul's Church. The only other surviving building of a similar age in Whiteinch is the nearby Inchbank House.

#glasgow #whiteinch #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowhistory

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@Stormwitch That's the one. Here's a photo of it. 👍🙂

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