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.
Gothic style townhouses dating from the 1870s on Westbourne Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. In the 1880s, the left hand one was home to Hugh Tennent, of the Tennent's Brewery on Duke Street who, in 1885, created Tennent's Lager, one of the first Pilsner-style lagers to be brewed in the UK.
Townhouses on University Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. The corner building was designed by Robert Ewan in 1902, while much of the rest of the terrace was designed by J.J. Burnet in the 1880s.
I love coming across these old decorative thresholds bearing what are often the last traces of long-gone businesses. This one is at 10 Park Road in the West End of Glasgow. I don't know for certain, but it may relate to A. and L. Cameron, Drapers and Shirtmakers, who occupied this shop between 1902 and 1904.
A Glasgow Style former Mews cottage for 26 Huntly Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Built around 1900 for John Wylie of the cabinetmakers Wylie and Lochhead.
The Grosvenor, Glasgow's oldest and only surviving suburban cinema. Opened in 1921 with seating for 1337 people, the original entrance was off Byres Road on the site currently occupied by Banta Wala. The cinema was refurbished in the early 2000s, with this new facade being built for the alternative entrance on Aston Lane. It now houses two sceens, with seating for around 250 people in each one.