An ornate tenement with a former bank branch on the ground floor on the corner of Pollokshaws Road and Moss-side Road at Shawlands Cross in Glasgow. The corner positioning of a distinctive building like this is a key part of Glasgow's architectural tradition.
The imposing Classical style entrance to the former Hillhead High School on Cecil Street in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Hugh and David Barclay, it was built in 1883. It later became Hillhead Primary School and is now flats.
Saint Mungo gazing out across Pollokshaws Road from Saint Ninian's Church in Glasgow, with the fish with the ring in its mouth below him, and the remains of a tram rosette (used to support electrical wires for Glasgow's tram system) just to his left. I've often wondered what people made of these being attached to churches when they were first installed at the end of the 19th Century.
The Late Gothic style former YMCA building on the corner of Maxwell Road and Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow. Designed by Robert Miller, it was built in the mid-1890s.
A late 19th Century tenement with a distinctive corner tower at Albert Cross in Pollokshields. Until about five years ago, this junction, in keeping with the Glasgow tradition, was marked by three distinctive corner towers. Since then, two have been lost to fire, and with the ground floor shop seemingly lying empty, there is a high risk this one will suffer a similar fate.
The lone surviving Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Lamp Standard on Queen's Drive is looking rather sorry for itself at the moment having been vandalised with silver spray paint. Anyone know who to contact to get it cleaned off without damaging the details underneath?
I love this decorative Art Nouveau metal plaque of Neptune in a doorway of the Miller and Lang building on Darnley Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.
Three of Glasgow's most distinctive gushet buildings: The Glasgow Savings Bank building on New City Road (left), the Saint Andrew's Cross building at Eglinton Toll (middle) and Crossmyloof Mansions at Shawlands Cross (right).
1 Moray Place in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. Built in 1859, it was designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson as part of a terrace of Classical Townhouses. Thomson himself lived here with his family between 1861 and his death in 1875.
Unfortunately, it's also something which seems to have pretty much been abandoned in recent years, resulting in a negative impact on the city's streetscape in terms of aethetics and in terms of creating a unique local feel.
Traditionally, major road junctions in Glasgow are marked by the presence of one or more of the following: An ornate bank building, an imposing church or a pub. Shawlands Cross on the Southside has the full set!
1850s Townhouses on Cecil Street in the West End of Glasgow. Thought to be designed by J.T. Rochead, anyone who was a student at Glasgow University in the 1980s and the early 1990s will most likely remember them as a row of rundown, seedy bedsits with as many people crammed into them as possible.