I love this decorative Art Nouveau metal plaque of Neptune in a doorway of the Miller and Lang building on Darnley Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.
Throwback to 2020. I spent a lot of time chasing down the locations I felt showed iconic scenes and infrastructure in the area. Moving from a smaller city to this one nearly every building and bridge felt gargantuan and worthy of an image.
The remnants of Pollokshields-Glencairn Church on Shields Road. Designed by W.G. Rowan and built in 1891, it was destroyed by a fire in 1988. This fragment, with its impressively sculptured arch, was salvaged and re-built in a reduced form in the grounds of a modern housing development built in its place. Almost hidden by trees, few passing on Sheilds Road will notice it.
Three of Glasgow's most distinctive gushet buildings: The Glasgow Savings Bank building on New City Road (left), the Saint Andrew's Cross building at Eglinton Toll (middle) and Crossmyloof Mansions at Shawlands Cross (right).
Yesterday, we went on a day trip to #Oxford by #train. No other means of powered transport was used as we #cycled to and from our local #RailwayStation.
Here is the #countryside zooming past the train window.
1 Moray Place in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. Built in 1859, it was designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson as part of a terrace of Classical Townhouses. Thomson himself lived here with his family between 1861 and his death in 1875.
Unfortunately, it's also something which seems to have pretty much been abandoned in recent years, resulting in a negative impact on the city's streetscape in terms of aethetics and in terms of creating a unique local feel.