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.
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D&D one shots
Bad movie nights
Tech/infosec meetup
Video and board games
3D game development tutorial
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Reddit and Mastodon meetup
VR dev tutorial
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Intro to 3D printing
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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.
This might not look like much, but it's the remains of an Iron Age enclosure in Pollok Country Park in Glasgow. It consists of a 30 m diametre ditch (partly visible on the left) surrounding a raised central area (background right), with a causeway leading out of it (foreground right) to a paved road. Excavations suggest it dates from between 2,000 and 2,500 years ago and probably functioned as a defensive structure.
1850s Townhouses on Cecil Street in the West End of Glasgow. Thought to be designed by J.T. Rochead, anyone who was a student at Glasgow University in the 1980s and the early 1990s will most likely remember them as a row of rundown, seedy bedsits with as many people crammed into them as possible.
Planning on hosting a #Glasgow#Mastodon meetup in @thegamerclub next month - Sat 15th June from 7pm. A chance to get to meet each other in person. All welcome!
Allegorical figures of Night and Day created by J.P. MacGillivary in 1888 for James Sellars' Anderson College of Medicine on Dumbarton Road in the West End of Glasgow.
Good Morning, Glasgow. The weather's not great today, so here's a pair of cute little ducklings from Victoria Park to help get your Friday off to a positive start.
Glasgow has a surprising number of quirky little reminders of the past which are all to easily overlooked, like this early 19th Century toll gate post at the junction between Paisely Road and Govan Road.
As Scotland became more industrialised in the 18th Century, both people and goods became increasingly mobile, and with that came the need for a better road network. This came in the form of Turnpikes, new roads which charged tolls for their use.
There are still many reminders of what is known as the turnpike era across Glasgow, mostly in the names of major road junctions, such as Eglington Toll, Paisley Road Toll, but also in terms of old toll buildings and other related structures.
This particular post was part of an old toll gatehouse known Parkhouse Toll which operated turnpike roads between the 1780s and 1888 from Glasgow to Greenock via Govan and to Paisley.
@monkeyben@jvseem That question has been raised a few times. I think they were were mostly made after the arsenic green had been phased out in the mid-1860s. However, I've not had the guts to test this by licking a few broken tiles! 🙂
@thisismyglasgow@monkeyben@jvseem my niece used to live up a close in Craigton which had similar tiles and someone got them tested and found there was no arsenic
By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow.