I love this hinge on D.B. Dobson's Art Nouveau masterpiece at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow. At first it looks unexpectedly plain in comparison to the rest of the building, and then it hits you - it's a snake!
The lodge at the gateway to Maxwell Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by H.E. Clifford, it was built in 1890, along with the neighbouring Pollokshields Burgh Hall.
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.
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.
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.
I love this building on the corner of Albert Drive and Darnley Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, not just for its design, which is great, but because it was built in 1895 for the wonderfully-named Glasgow Laundry and Carpet Beating Works.
The former Pollokshields West Church on Shields Road on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by W.G. Rowan and built in the late 1870s, it bears a striking resemblence to Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's 1850s Saint Vincent Street Church in the city centre, especially the square corner tower.
Whitehall on Springkell Avenue beside Maxwell Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by Robert Duncan in a Classical style, this villa was constructed in the 1890s, with additions by P. McGregor Chalmers in 1913. It's first owner was William Gray of the shipowner and chandlers MacBeth and Gray.
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.
An old tram track embedded in a cobbled lane behind the former Coplawhill Tram Shed in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. Built in 1893, this depot closed in the 1960s, and now houses The Tramway, an internationaly renowned arts venue.
The Knowe on Albert Drive in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. Designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson for the merchant John Blair, it was started in 1852. At the time it was built, the house was surrounded by countryside, but has since been overtaken by the growing city.
A large Victorian villa with a touch of Scots Baronial detailing on Nithsdale Road in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. Designed in the style of W.F. MacGibbon (who lived in the house next door), it was built in the 1880s.
A rather beautiful Scots Baronial style villa on Nithsdale Road on the Southside of Glasgow. Built around 1887, it was designed by the architect W.F. McGibbon as his own house. Amongst other buildings, McGibbon also designed the nearby Sherbrooke Mosspark Church.
Benefrey on Springkell Avenue in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.
Designed by William Hunter McNab in a Franco-Scottish Gothic style, it was built in 1910, making it one of the last grand villas built in Pollokshields.
It was built for John Anderson, a Director of the construction company P and W Anderson, which, amongst others, helped build the Central Hotel, the Glasgow Herald Building and the Mitchell Library.
An early example of a corner tower on a Glasgow tenement on Nithsdale Road in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. Designed by Thomson and Turnbull, this tenement block was completed in 1878, three years after Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's death. However, it was started in 1873, and the influence of his hand is clear within the understated elegance of its lines.