thisismyglasgow

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Love these floor tiles in the Govan Old Parish Church. Designed by R. Rowand Anderson, it was built in the 1880s.

#glasgow #govan #architecture #design #tiles #tiling #ceramics #church #glasgowchurches #glasgowbuildings

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Former 6th Battalion Highland Light Infantry drill hall on Yorkhill Street in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by William Hunter McNab, it was built in 1901.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #yorkhill #buildingsphotography #architecturephotography

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

I've always liked the look of this villa on Kirklee Road in the West End of Glasgow. It was originally built in the mid-1800s, but was heavily remodelled by J.J. Burnet around 1900.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #buildingphotography #architecturephotography

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Does anyone know the story behind these tiles about Alice? I run into different ones from time to time on walls around the Southside of Glasgow, mostly in the vicinity of Queen's Park.

#glasgow #tiles #alice #streetart #queenspark #glasgowstreetart

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

An old clay pipe I found on one of my recent trips to the Clyde Estuary (top photo). Comparisons to one recovered from beside the Forth and Clyde Canal last year, which dates from the mid-1800s (lower photos), suggests it was made between 1720 and 1750, but I'm no expert on the subject.

#glasgow #theclyde #archaeology #glasgowhistory #claypipe #mudlarking

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Wilson Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #tardis #glasgowbuildings #merchantcity

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

I've always been intrigued by the similarities between these two buildings. On the left is a 1770s tenement on Gallowgate in Glasgow (containing the Heilan Jessie pub), while on the right is Charles Rennie MacKintosh's iconic 1902 Hill House in Helensburgh. Given that MacKintosh lived in Dennistoun until 1892, he would likely have passed the Gallowgate tenement, and I wonder if it acted as an inspiration for him.

#glasgow #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #glasgowbuildings #hillhouse

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

A classic Glasgow gushet tenement on the corner of Old Dumbarton Road and Yorkhill Street in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #yorkhill #buildingphotography #architecturephotography

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Love this grotesque on Robertson and Dobbie's 1908 Glasgow Style warehouse on Wilson Street in Glasgow. It looks like a combination of the Green Man and Pan.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #merchantcity #buildingphotography #architecturephotography #sculpture #pan #greenman

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

There are few things in the world as green as newly unfurled beech leaves in Spring. This was the scene I found myself immersed in at Dawsholm Park in the West of Glasgow during yesterday's morning dog walk.

#glasgow #dawsholmpark #spring #forest #woods #walkinthewoods #dogwalk #nature #green

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Ghost sign for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children on Old Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. The city's first dedicated children's hospital, it originally opened in 1882 in Garnethill. In 1914, it moved to new premises in Yorkhill in the West End of Glasgow where it remained until it was replaced by the new Royal Hospital for Children on Govan Road in 2015.

#glasgow #ghostsign #architecture #glasgowhistory #yorkhill #nhs

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

The remains of one of four sailing schooners abandoned at the Newshot Island Boat Graveyard on the Clyde at Erskine after a fire at the Kingston Dock in Glasgow in 1914.

#glasgow #pastglasgow #glasgowhistory #ships #boats #theclyde #boatgraveyard #erskine #newshotisland

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Love this red door on the Queen's Park Church on Balvicar Drive on the Southside of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #church #glasgowchurches #queenspark #door #reddoor #churchdoor

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

There are few things which beats a wally close for making a great first impression. This one is in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. For those who don't know, a wally close is the communal entrance to a tenement which is lined with tiles, and often beautifully crafted ones.

#glasgow #tiles #tenement #hyndland #glasgowtenement #ceramics #tiling #architecture #glasgowbuildings

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Cleaned and uncleaned tenements on Albert Avenue in the Queen's Park area of Glasgow. Until a cleaning programme was initiated in the 1970s, most of Glasgow's traditional sandstone buildings were black from many decades of accumulated soot and grime. These tenements show what buildings looked like before and after they were cleaned.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenements #glasgowtenement #queenspark

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Love this bow window topped by a candle snuffer roof with dorner windows on Nithsdale Road in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.

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

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

The hull of a diving bell barge at Newshot Island on the Clyde near Erskine. Built in 1852, it's one of two such vessels built to help deepen the Clyde so large ships could travel right into the heart of the city.

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#glasgow #clyde #glasgowhistory #industrialheritage #theclyde #clydenavigationtrust #newshotisland #boatgraveyard #erskine #abandonedship #ship

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

This access cover in Kelvingrove Park has long been a bit of a puzzle for me. Situated near the Park Drive entrance, you can just make out that it's a Fire Point (FP) cover made by Thomas Leadbetter and Co. Based on Gordon Street, with a works on Garnkirk Street, this Glasgow company was a plumbers, lead merchant and brass foundry, which, amongst other things made brass values for fire points (what we'd now call a fire hydrant) in the 1860s.

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#glasgow #ironwork #kelvingrovepark

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Today, I decided to head out of the city and spend the day in the Arrochar Alps. This was the view, including Beinn Narnain (right), the Cobbler (middle), and (I think) the Brack (left), with Loch Goil just making an appearance in the distance. I'll be back to photographing Glasgow tomorrow.

#glasgow #arrocharalps #thecobbler #scotland #scottishscenery #scottishlandscape #visitscotland

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

A beautifully sculpted putti on the 1901 Edwardian Baroque Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildibgs #putti #kelvingrove #kelvingroveartgallery

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

Some more beautiful Gasgow tenement tiles from Hyndland.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tiles #tiling #ceramics #artnouveau #flowers #tenement #glasgowtenement #hyndland

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

11 and 13 University Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John James Burnet in a Classical style and built in 1882, they're all that's left of a terrace of similar buildings which once lined this side of the street. Originally private houses, they're now part of Glasgow University.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowuniversity

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

An unusual cast-iron gravestone in Old Kilpatrick Church Yard in West Dunbartonshire. I'm presuming this dates from around 1829, the more recent of the two years on it.

#glasgow #oldkilpatrick #gravestone #ironwork #castiron

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

All that remains of Duke Street Prison on the East End of Glasgow. Originally opened in 1798, it finally closed in 1957 and was demolished shortly afterwards. It was an early example of the Separate System introduced in the early 19th Century which was based around keeping prisoners in solitary confinement.

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#glasgow #glasgowhistory #dukestreet #dukestreetprison #suffragettes

thisismyglasgow, 1 month ago to glasgow

I love the details above these windows on a tenement on Peel Street in the Partick area of Glasgow, especially the cherubs in boats getting pulled along by swans. The building dates from 1875 and was designed by H and D. Barclay.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #partick #sculpture #design #cherubs #window #windowswednesday