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.
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.
James Sellars' 1888 Anderson College of Medicine om Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. Sellars is a highly underrated Glasgow architect, and if you're interested in learning more about his work, there'a a free talk on at thr Mitchell Library in Glasgow today (16 May 2024) at 6pm. More info can be found at:
It's great to see Clarke and Bell's Art Nouveau style saloon bar on Dumbarton Road in Partick finally getting a decent make-over. Built for Philip MacSorley (who also owned MacSorley's on Jamaica Street) in 1900 on the site of an older pub called the Clan Vaults, it's previously been known as The Roost, Wall Street, The Exchequer, The Fitter and Firkin, The Clinic and Boho.
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.
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.
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.
Saint Paul's Church on Dumbarton Road in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow. Designed in a Basilican-type style by Reginald Fairlie and Partners, it was built in the late 1950s and features stained glass by Gabriel Loire of Chartres.
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.
The former Hutchesontown District Library on the southside of Glasgow. It was designed by J.R. Rhind in a French Renaissance style and was built in 1904. It's topped with a winged figure by William Kellock Brown.
The coat of arms of the Merchants' House of Glasgow on the gates at the main entrance to the Necropolis. Below this is the name William Brown, a Scottish merchant and philanthropist who was the Dean of Guild at the time the gates were created. Designed by David and James Hamilton, the gates date from 1838 and were originally set at the western end of the Bridge of Sighs leading over the Molendinar Ravine which separates the Catherdral and the Necropolis.
Early 1900s Free Style tenement on Great Western Road in the Anniesland area of Glasgow. Designed in a similar style to Anniesland Mansions which stand opposite and were probably designed by H. Campbell.
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.
I love this corner tower with a bell-cast roof topped by a copper dome on a villa on Southbrae Drive on the Jordanhill area of Glasgow. Known as Towerdene, it was built around 1900.
Today's playing is online, and the piece is //Making a Choice and Then Making Another Choice// by #JamesSaunders. Might be a good day to check them out! ;)
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.
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.
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.
The entrances to the Calder Street Baths and Washhouse in Glasgow. Built in the 1910s in an Edwardiam Baroque style, they were designed by A.B. MacDonald. They contained a mixed bathing pool, a women's and infants pool, private pool, a Turkish baths and a steam room and sauna. Now known as the Govanhill Baths, the building is currently being restored by the Govanhill Baths Charitable Trust.