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.
I love it when I come across an old bootscaper still in place. This one, outside a Victorian townhouse in the Park area of Glasgow, is particularly nice, if a little bit worse for wear, and is nearly identical to the ones outside 10 Downing Street in London, the traditional home of the British Prime Minister. And before anyone asks, yes I really am geeky enough to have spotted this!
Decorative cast iron lamp base outside Charles Wilson's 1857 Queen's Rooms on La Belle Place in the West End of Glasgow. Despite the many layers of paint, you can still make out hippocampi with intertwined tails in the middle and dophin fish at either end. The name at the bottom indicates it was created by the Shotts Iron Works.
Beautifully cast dolphin fish on the top tier of the MacFarlane and Co fountain in Alexandra Park in Glasgow. You can really see why their Saracen Foundry was world-famous for the qaulity of its decorative ironwork.
Looking up through the intricate dome of the James Martin Memorial Fountain by Glasgow Green. It was erected in 1893. It was created by MacFarlane and Co's Saracen Foundry one of the city's most famous producers of ornamental ironwork.
An iron access cover produced by the Oak Foundry which was based at 40 Black Street in Glasgow in the 1880s.
This is not a foundry I'm familiar with and I haven't been able to find out much about it, other than the fact the owners were sued by the famous Macfarlaine and Co Saracen foundry in 1883 for infringement of copyright over the production of an illustrated catalogue of architectural ironwork.
A wonderful lion pillaster on the combined drinking fountain and lamp in Dowanhill Park in the west end of Glasgow. It was made in 1903 by the MacFarlane and Company foundry, Scotland's most important manufacturer of ornamental iron work between 1850 and 1965.