The Southern Rotunda, once the southern entrance to the Glasgow Harbour Tunnel, which ran under the Clyde at Finnieston. Designed by Simpson and Wilson and built in the 1890s, it contained lifts which lowered people and vehicles 21 m (72 ft) into the tunnels below. The two vehicle tunnels closed in 1940, and were filled in in the 1986, while the pedestrian tunnel, which still exists, closed in 1980.
Stobcross Crane No 7, AKA the Finnieston Crane, against this evening's sunset. I know I photograph this crane a lot, but sometimes I just can't resist it!
Three-storey 1850s Classical tenement on Argyle Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. Originally designed by Alexander Kirkland, the pub on the ground floor is a newer addition, and was only established in 1884.
Glasgow Flatiron: A triangular tenement on the corner of Argyle Street and Blackie Street in Finnieston. While it resembles New York's famous Flatiron building, it was built in 1875, some 27 years before it, suggesting Scottish gushet buildings like this may have influenced the design of its more famous trans-Atlantic counterpart.
1860s blonde sandstone tenement on Argyle Street in Finnieston, Glasgow. I like the painted signs on the ground floor shop fronts on this building, especially Pearl, the gold leaf shell oyster lady.
Tonight's sunset at the Finnieston Crane in Glasgow.
There's only a week or so on either side of the Winter Solstice when the sun goes down like this directly behind the crane and it's even rarer for this to happen when the weather's clear enough to see it!
I love the curved corner of this tenement building on Arygle Street in the west end of Glasgow. It's a small and simple feature and there was no need for the architect to do this, but it adds so much to the character of both the building and the local area.
I posted a different shot of this gushet tenement on Argyle Street in Glasgow yesterday, but I love this shot of it too, especially the sunrise reflected in the ground-floor window.
Blonde sandstone tenement on the corner of Claremont Street and Argyle Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. I love those windows at the left hand end, a bay window forming the narrow end wall of this gushet building.
The Finnieston Brass Foundry. A beautiful, fully functional building, and one of the last examples of Glasgow's industrial heritage architecture left in the local area. Built in the 19th Century, demolished in November 2023.
It's sad to see work has finally begun to demolish the old and rather beautiful Finnieston Brass Foundry. Built in the late 1800s, it's one of the last remnants of the area's industrial past.
Thanks to Govangal68 over on Twitter for pointing out.
Looking along Minerva Street in Finnieston. Now one of the most fashionable areas of the west end of Glasgow, Finnieston started life in 1768 as a village on the lands of Stobcross House. It was named after the Reverend John Finnie, a former tutor of Matthew Orr, the owner of the Stobcross estate.
The Argyle Street Ash Tree in Glasgow looking magnificent in today's early morning sun. Both the tree and the tenements behind it date from around 1850.
An impressive 1850s curved Classical tenement building with ground floor shops on Minerva Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. It's thought to have been designed by Alexander Kirkland.
Sculpture of a steam engine over the door of the North British Locomotive Company offices in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Many of the engines loaded on to ships by the Finnieston Crane featured in the previous post were built here having been pulled through the streets of the city.
Another of Glasgow's fantastic gushet building. This one is on the corner of Argyle Street and Minerva Street in Finnieston. It was built in the 1850s and was possibly designed by Alexander Kirkland.
It's one of those building I think a lot of people pass every day without really looking at it and realising quite how impressive it is.
Disused railway tracks at the base of the Finnieston Crane on Stobcross Quay in Glasgow.
These lines were used to bring good made in and around Glasgow down to the banks of the Clyde to be loaded by the crane into ships and exported all over the world. This included items as large as steam locomotives, explaining why such a massive crane was required.