A decorative caryatid on a spandrel between the doors of William Whyte's French 1885 Renaissance style tenement on Queen's Drive in Glasgow. This is one of a number of similar sculptures on the building which are grouped into differet themes, including the arts.
Hampden Bowling Club on the Southside of Glasgow, which, between 1873 and 1884 was home to the Hampden Football Stadium This was the world's first modern international football stadium, and the one on which all others have since been modelled. Its name comes from the nearby Hampden Terrace, which, rather ironically for the home of Scottish football, was named after the English Civil War solider John Hampden who fought for the Roundheads.
The former Camphill United Presbyterian Chuch (now the Queen's Park Baptist Church) in Glasgow. Designed by William Leiper in the 1870s and completed in 1883, it also features sculptures by one of the Mossmans.
Another rather unique Glasgow tenement, this time on the corner of Langside Road and Queen's Drive on the city's Southside. Designed by W.M Whyte in a French Renaissance style, but with a statue of Liberty on the top, it was built in 1885.
You'll often hear it said there are five statues of Liberty in Glasgow. However, in reality, this is the only one as all the others are different allegorical female figures.
Camphill House in Queen's Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed in a Classical style, possibly by David Hamilton, it was built around 1798 for the cotton manufacturer Robert Thomson. Thomson owned the Adelphi Cotton Works in Hutchesontown which is thought to have been the first factory in Glasgow to manufacture cotton goods. Originally built as a country house, it has now been engulfed by the expanding city.
Queen's Park Railings on the Southside of Glasgow. I'm not too sure why one is so obviously different from the others, but I suspect it may be due to the need to make a repair to a listed structure clearly discernable from the original parts.
Does anyone know the story behind these tiles about Alice? I run into different ones from time to time on walls around the Southside of Glasgow, mostly in the vicinity of Queen's Park.
They're the work of an artist called Oktavia Schreiner, and aim to blend stories of a fictional character (Alice) with real locations. There are at least two more tiles I haven't found yet.
Cleaned and uncleaned tenements on Albert Avenue in the Queen's Park area of Glasgow. Until a cleaning programme was initiated in the 1970s, most of Glasgow's traditional sandstone buildings were black from many decades of accumulated soot and grime. These tenements show what buildings looked like before and after they were cleaned.
@thisismyglasgow@brie probably worth mentioning that cleaning operations ceased when it was realised that it was very difficult to clean the stone without damaging it.
@thisismyglasgow The stone cleaning and renovation of the ‘70s started from the late Angela Petrie, and Margaret Thomson finding out that the Councils were ‘hoarding’ the cash for the refurbishment for their own housing stock. Their persistence broke this hold, allowing local residents’ associations as in the Woodlands area of Glasgow, to access this funding. This model spread to Edinburgh where very quickly the department responsible grew from a few staff to a huge department.
The former Queen's Park Synagogue on Falloch Road on the Southside of Glasgow. Built in the 1920s, it was designed in a Romanesque style by the rather wonderfully named Ninian MacWhannel. It was converted into flats in 2008.
Provost's Lamp above the entrance to a tenement on Prince Edward Street in the Queen's Park area of Glasgow. Designed by William Sugg and Co, it looks like this may have originally been lit by gas rather than electricity.