thisismyglasgow

thisismyglasgow, 1 day ago to glasgow

Is this the best gushet building in Glasgow? A gushet building is one constructed on a narrow strip of land at a junction between two roads (in this case Paisley Road West and Govan Road). Designed in a Renaissance style by Bruce and Hay, it was built in the 1880s as the Ogg Brothers Drapery Warehouse and Department Store.

#glasgow #kinningpark #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #buildingphotography

thisismyglasgow, 1 day ago to glasgow

Sunset at Glasgow's Riverside Museum. Designed by Zaha Hadid, it was first opened in 2011. The reflections in the window shows the buildings of the Clyde Waterfront further up the river.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #sunset #riversidemuseum #glasgowsunset #zahahadid

thisismyglasgow, 1 day ago to glasgow

Having some fun on the evening dog walk with long shadows created by the setting sun.

#glasgow #dog #dogwalking #shadow #longshadows #eveningsun #lateevebingsun #sunset

thisismyglasgow, 2 days ago to glasgow

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.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #queenspark #tenement #statueofliberty

thisismyglasgow, 1 day ago to glasgow

The pinnicle of Cooperative House on Morrison Street in Glasgow. Designed by Bruce and Hay and built in the 1890s for the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society, its topped by the iconic golden figure of Light and Life.

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#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #glagowbuilding #peoplemakeglasgow

thisismyglasgow, 2 days ago to glasgow

Found taped to a lamp post outside Queen's Park in Glasgow ...

#glasgow #glasgowhumour #govanhill #queenspark #humour #keepglasgowweird

thisismyglasgow, 3 days ago to glasgow

The remains of the former Partick Central Station (later known as Kelvin Hall Station) under Benalder Street in Glasgow. It was built around 1896 for the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway, and closed in 1965. The station buildings were demolished in 1968.

#glasgow #architecture #partick #oldrailway #urbanexploration #abandonedplaces #railway

thisismyglasgow, 3 days ago to glasgow

The former Hamilton and Manson Grain Mill on the corner of West Street and Wallace Street in the Tradeston area of Glasgow. Designed by W.F. McGibbon in a Flemish style, it was built in the 1890s

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tradeston #buildingphotography
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thisismyglasgow, 3 days ago to glasgow

One of the best things about living in Glasgow is turning a corner and finding yourself looking up at a roof like this!

The former Ogg Brothers Department Store at Paisley Road Toll was designed by Bruce and Hay, and was built in the 1880s. It's topped by the Spirit of Commerce and Industry, who is perhaps better known as the Kinning Park Angel, the Angel of the South, or simply Mrs. Ogg.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #kinningpark #kingston #angel

thisismyglasgow, 3 days ago to glasgow

Yet another old Glasgow building which looks like it could soon be lost. On the corner of Wallace Street and Centre Street in Tradeston, it was damaged by fire earlier today. This isn't a listed building, and it's not of historic importance, but none-the-less it's part of the city's heritage and it was one I always admired whenever I passed it.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #fire #buildingphotography #glasgowhistory #glasgowheritage

thisismyglasgow, 3 days ago to glasgow

Santa seems to have pissed off someone in Tradeston in Glasgow!

#glasgow #glasgowhumour #tradeston #santa #santaclaus

thisismyglasgow, 3 days ago to glasgow

Commemorative stone on Mavisbank Gardens in Glasgow marking the commissioning and construction of the Cessnock Dock, later renamed the Prince's Dock, on the south bank of the Clyde. With 35 acres of water, it was the largest dock on the upper Clyde and it cost almost £1,000,000 build and equip. It closed in the 1970s and in the 1980s, it was filled in. In 1988, it formed the site for the Glasgow Garden Festival.

#glasgow #glasgowhistory #princesdock #glasgowgardenfestival #kingston

thisismyglasgow, 4 days ago to glasgow

How can you fail to love a city which has decorations like this not on a castle, or a grand mansion or its town hall, but on a tenement building? This is part of W.M. Whyte's 1905 Scots Baronial tenement on Broomhill Drive in Glasgow.

#glasgow #broomhill #glasgowtenement #tenement #architecture #glasgowbuilding #scotsbaronial #architecturephotography #windows

thisismyglasgow, 4 days ago to glasgow

I love these bronze portraits you get on Victorian gravestones as they provide a great snapshot of the fashions of the past, especially of male facial hair. This is the Reverend John Stark, minister in Duntocher, who died in the 1880s and is buried in the Old Kilpatrick Church Yard.

#glasgow #history #oldkilpatrick #victoriangravestone #gravestone #cemetery

thisismyglasgow, 4 days ago to glasgow

James Salmon Junior's rather beautiful 1900 Glasgow Style British Linen Bank building, one of the very few traditional red sandstone tenements left standing in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Sometimes it seems the past is a luxury only the rich get to keep.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #thegorbals #glasgowstyle

thisismyglasgow, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to glasgow

I love these metal relief sculptures of fish on the fence of a modern tenement-style building on Cumberland Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. They feature a trout or salmon (top left), a stickleback (top right), a grayling (bottom left) and a pike (bottom right).

#glasgow #sculpture #fish #publicart #gorbals #metalwork

thisismyglasgow, 4 days ago to glasgow

An old Fire Point (FP) style fire hydrant cover on Old Rutherglen Road in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. It seems that this cover has somehow survived the wholesale destruction of the Gorbals in the 1960s, and the more recent round of redevelopments from the 1990s onwards.

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#glasgow #thegorbals #architecture #glasgowbuildings #accesscover #firepoint #urbanredevelopment #glasgowhistory

thisismyglasgow, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to glasgow

Kilmardinny House in Bearsden on the outskirts of Glasgow. Dating from the late 1700s, this Georgian mansion has been owned by a variety of Glasgow merchants, including William Brown of Kilmardinny, the Dean of Guild for the city. Brown purchased the house in the 1830s using compensation he received as a slave-owner following the abolition of slavery in the British colonies in 1838.

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#glasgow #bearsden #kilmardinnyhouse #architecture #glasgowhistory

thisismyglasgow, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to glasgow

Six of the most decorative Tontine Heads. Dating from the 19th Century, these heads originally adorned keystones of arches in the Tontine Hotel at Glasgow Cross. They're now housed in the Provand's Lordship, Glasgow's oldest house, on Castle Street.

#glasgow #sculpture #tontineheads #provandslordship

thisismyglasgow, 5 days ago to glasgow

Jordanvale House on Dumbarton Road in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow. One of the oldest buildings in the local area, it dates back to at least the 1830s. It's now used as the presbytery of the neighbouring Saint Paul's Church. The only other surviving building of a similar age in Whiteinch is the nearby Inchbank House.

#glasgow #whiteinch #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowhistory

thisismyglasgow, 5 days ago to glasgow

Acre House in the Maryhill area of Glasgow. An Italianate late 19th Century villa with a corner tower. While C-listed it has been in poor condition for many years before being further damaged around 2010 by the inevitable fire of the type which plagues Glasgow's abandoned buildings. There's now conditional planning permission to turn it into flats.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #buildingsatrisk #maryhill

thisismyglasgow, 6 days ago to glasgow

Another of Glasgow's Edward VIII pillar boxes. This one is on Crown Terrace in the West End. Twenty six such boxes were installed in the city during the 326 days Edward VIII was on the throne, which one source claims was more than anywhere else, but I'm not convinced this is actually correct. As far as I can track down, six of these 26 remain in place today.

#glasgow #pillarbox #edwardviii #edwardviiipillarbox #crownterrace #postbox

thisismyglasgow, 6 days ago to glasgow

An early morning view from the Necropolis across to the buildings of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. While the Necropolis first opened in the 1830s, the hospital has been based on this site since the 1790s.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowroyalinfirmary #necropolis #glasgownecropolis

thisismyglasgow, 6 days ago to glasgow

I love this rather wonderful creature which features on the fireplace in the boardroom of the former Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on Govan Road in Glasgow. It's now home to the Fairfield Heritage Museum.

#glasgow #sculpture #govan #architecture #fairfieldheritage #museum

thisismyglasgow, 7 days ago to glasgow

A ghost sign on Yorkhill Street in Glasgow. I've not been able to track down who's Family Department it points towards.

#glasgow #ghostsign #yorkhill