I love the symmetry of these roman-arched doors on the 1860s Italian Palazzo Cinquecento style former East Campbell Street United Presbyterian Church just off Gallowgate in the East End of Glasgow.
The coat of arms of the National Commercial Bank of Scotland on a former branch on Gallowgate in Glasgow. The National Commercial Bank was established in 1959 by the merging of two older banks: The National Bank of Scotland, established in 1825, and the Commerical Bank of Scotland established in 1810. In 1969, the National Commercial Bank itself merged with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
This small, unassuming building at 161 Gallowgate was home to a Quaker Grocer by the name of William Smeal. Smeal was one of the leaders of the anti-slavery movement in Scotland. He helped found the Glasgow Emancipation Society in the 1833. Through the work of Smeal and others, Glasgow became of of the key centres for the fight against slavery worldewide.