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thisismyglasgow, 15 days ago to glasgow

The rather stunning Shawlands Cross Church on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by Miller and Black in a distinctive Late Perpendicular Gothic style, it was built in 1900.

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thisismyglasgow, 15 days ago to glasgow

There was a lovely bit of sun to end the day on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow this evening.

#glasgow #partick #glasgowtoday #sunshine #dumbartonroad #tenement #architecture #glasgowtenement

thisismyglasgow, 15 days ago to glasgow

I think this is possibly the most "West End" sign I've come across in Glasgow for a while! 🙂

#glasgow #glasgowbotanicgardens #arboretum #sign #weirdsign #glasgowwestend

thisismyglasgow, 15 days ago to glasgow

The former William Cook and Sons Ltd, Saw Manufacturers, building on Houldsworth Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow. Built with polychromatic brick around 1870 (making it one of the oldest surviving buildings in the local area), it has some nice ghost signs along both its facades.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #ghostsigns #industrialarchitecture #anderston

thisismyglasgow, 16 days ago to glasgow

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.

#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #tenement #glasgowtenement #glasgowbuilding #queenspark

thisismyglasgow, 16 days ago to glasgow

An ornate tenement with a former bank branch on the ground floor on the corner of Pollokshaws Road and Moss-side Road at Shawlands Cross in Glasgow. The corner positioning of a distinctive building like this is a key part of Glasgow's architectural tradition.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #shawlands #shawlandscross #tenement #glasgowtenement

thisismyglasgow, 16 days ago to glasgow

One of a pair of finely moustachioed fellows at the original entrance to Pollok House on the Southside of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #sculpture #moustache #head #pollokhouse

thisismyglasgow, 16 days ago to glasgow

The imposing Classical style entrance to the former Hillhead High School on Cecil Street in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Hugh and David Barclay, it was built in 1883. It later became Hillhead Primary School and is now flats.

#glasgow #architecture #hillhead #glasgowbuildings #glasgowschools #classicalarchitecture

thisismyglasgow, 16 days ago to glasgow

Saint Mungo gazing out across Pollokshaws Road from Saint Ninian's Church in Glasgow, with the fish with the ring in its mouth below him, and the remains of a tram rosette (used to support electrical wires for Glasgow's tram system) just to his left. I've often wondered what people made of these being attached to churches when they were first installed at the end of the 19th Century.

#glasgow #architecture #trams #glasgowbuildings #church #glasgowchurches #glasgowtrams #tramrosette #saintmungo

thisismyglasgow, 16 days ago to glasgow

This inscription on a bench in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens always sparks my curiosity whenever I pass, and I wonder about the story behind it.

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#bench #glasgowbotanicgardens

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

The Late Gothic style former YMCA building on the corner of Maxwell Road and Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow. Designed by Robert Miller, it was built in the mid-1890s.

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#tenement

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

I always admire this distinctive 1870s Thomsonesque Greek-style villa on Nithsdale Road in Glasgow whenever I happen to pass it.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields #buildingphotography #architecturephotography

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

Love this decorative tiling from a tenement close in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #tiles #tiling #ceramics #tenementtiles #design

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

A late 19th Century tenement with a distinctive corner tower at Albert Cross in Pollokshields. Until about five years ago, this junction, in keeping with the Glasgow tradition, was marked by three distinctive corner towers. Since then, two have been lost to fire, and with the ground floor shop seemingly lying empty, there is a high risk this one will suffer a similar fate.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields #tenement #glasgowtenements

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

The lone surviving Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Lamp Standard on Queen's Drive is looking rather sorry for itself at the moment having been vandalised with silver spray paint. Anyone know who to contact to get it cleaned off without damaging the details underneath?

#glasgow #architecture #alexandergreekthomson #glasgowbuildings #metalwork #ironwork #castiron

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

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.

#glasgow #hampdenpark #football #queenspark

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

Late Victorian blonde sandstone tenement on Queen's Drive on the Southside of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement

thisismyglasgow, 18 days ago to glasgow

An Alexander 'Greek' Thomson gateway. This is the side access to The Knowe, 'Greek' Thomson's 1850s villa in Pollokshields in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #alexandergreekthomson #pollokshields #doorway #gateway #glasgowbuildings

thisismyglasgow, 18 days ago to glasgow

Great George Street corner tenement in the Hillhead area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #hillhead

thisismyglasgow, 18 days ago to glasgow

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.

#glasgow #architecture #artnouveau #pollokshields #neptune #glasgowbuildings

thisismyglasgow, 19 days ago to glasgow

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.

#glasgow #architecture #pollokshields #glasgowbuilding #church #glasgowchurches

thisismyglasgow, 19 days ago to glasgow

Renaissance style townhouses on Lilybank Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by David Home, they were built in the 1880s.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #hillhead #buildingsphotography #architecturephotography

thisismyglasgow, 19 days ago to glasgow

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).

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thisismyglasgow, 19 days ago to glasgow

A distinctive and rather beautiful late Victorian Italianate villia in the Shawlands area of Glasgow.

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thisismyglasgow, 20 days ago to glasgow

You know it's a wet start to the day when even the water birds, like this young heron in Victoria Park in Glasgow, are looking rather bedraggled!

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #heron #bird #victoriapark #goodmorningglasgow #urbawildlife #wildlife