'This Is My Glasgow' is a photographic project from Colin M. Drysdale, author of 'Glasgow Uncovered: 18 Walks Through its Past, Present and Future' - available from all good bookshops. Unless otherwise stated, all photos are my own.
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Last Notes npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow In 1901, the Scots-born Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world. However, it's estimated he gave away 90% of his wealth, including providing funding for the construction of 2,059 libraries around the world between 1883 and 1929. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Maryhill Public Library in Glasgow. Built in 1903, it was one of the first wave of libraries built in the city using funds provided by Andrew Carnegie, and is one of seven designed by James R. Rhind. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Glasgow old and new: On the left is an abandoned and decaying 1901 Glasgow Style commercial building designed by John Archibald Campbell for the carting contractors Robert Buchanan and Company at 73 Robertson Street. On the right is a rather non-descript modern equivalent. For me, one of the main differences between the two is that the one of the left screams Glasgow the moment you see it, while the one on the right could be anywhere. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Last night I was in the former Renfield St Stephen's Church on Bath Street for the first time giving a talk to the Old Glasgow Club (and thanks to them for inviting me to speak). This mid-19th Century Early English Gothic church, which is now part of the Renfield Centre, is as impressive inside as out, and features this rather beautiful modern stained glass window. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The view down Renfield Street to Union Street in Glasgow this morning. After yesterday's fire, the familiar dome of the 175 year old Union Corner building is gone, as is the facade which once stretched down Union Street to Caledonian Chambers (where there is a side entrance to Central Station). Smoke still billows from the burned out remains and drifts across the centre of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Now, almost six years after the second fire, and more than a decade after the first, it's still a literal shell of its former self, encased in scaffolding to protect what's left. And so, one of the pinnacles of Scotland's architecture and a key part of Glasgow's built heritage remains in limbo, looking more like a modern art installation than the Art Nouveau gem it once was, and will, hopefully, one day be once more. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Art Nouveau Glasgow School of Art Building. One of the most architecturally important buildings in Scotland, it was severely damaged in a fire in 2014, and then restored, but before it could be re-occupied by students, there was a second fire in 2018 which caused even worse damage. Unfortunately, various legal wranglings prevented a second restoration from starting promptly. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Snowdrops pushing up through last year's fallen leaves on the Gascube Estate in the northwest of Glasgow. These are the first I've come across this year and are another sign spring is coming once again. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The spire of William Leiper's Queen's Park Baptist Church on the Southside of Glasgow reflected in a nearby pond. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this trompe-l'œil style mural on the ground floor of an exposed tenement gable in the Linthouse area of Glasgow. The adjoining tenement, which would have completed a residental block enclosing an internal back court, was demolished to make way for the southern entrance to the Clyde Tunnel, which opened in 1963. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A slightly weird optical illusion I came across yesterday at Bingham's pond in the west of Glasgow. It might just be me, but the reflection of the shopping basket in the last of the ice makes it appear as if it's some sort of levitating cage. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow I love this sculpture of a steam locomotive over the door of James Miller's 1903 North British Locomotive Company offices in the Springburn area of Glasgow. I particularly like the detail of the blocks and chains on either side, which were used to haul the completed locomotives through the streets of Glasgow and load them onto ships using the Finnieston Crane so they could be exported all over the world. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow It's that time of year when large numbers of young Christmas trees, now free of their festive duties, can be seen roaming the streets of Glasgow. They can often be found hanging out at bus stops on a Saturday night, like this one I spotted yesterday on Crow Road in Partick, drinking Buckfast and shouting at passersby. 😀 npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this bit of decorative stained glass in a Victorian villa on Queen's Drive in the Crosshill area of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The wolf supermoon over Argyle Street in the west of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Good morning, Glasgow. This was today's sunrise behind the Glasgow Science Centre at 08:46 GMT. This is one minute earlier than the latest sunrise of the winter (which occurs for just over a week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day) and from now on the sun will rise earlier and earlier each day until the 17th of June, when the sun will rise at 03:30 GMT (04:30 BST). Here's to almost six months lighter mornings! npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Not bad for someone in their fifties who'd never really done any long-distance running before starting this challenge! npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow My long run today took me up along the Forth and Clyde. Canal, where there's always an interesting sight or two to be had, but this morning's run was a bit of a special one for me. For some still unknown reason (alcohol might possibly have been involved!), at the start of 2021 I set myself the seemingly unlikely target of running a half marathon around the streets of Glasgow every month for the next 60 months. Today, I completed number 60! npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow It's not yet 10 o'clock in the morning on Christmas Eve, and it seems that some businesses, like this one on Buchanan Street in Glasgow, are already operating on a skeleton staff! npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The 1860s Kibble Palace glasshouse in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens lit by the last bit of this afternoon's sun before the rain clouds blotted it out once again. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Time for some Glasgow geekiness. This is a rarely encountered Partick Electricity Supply access cover on North Gardner Street in the West End of Glasgow. As far as I can work out, this refers to a local electricity network run by the Burgh of Partick between 1899 and 1912, when the burgh lost its independence and was absorbed into Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow An amusing, and presumably temporary, addition to Paul Raphael Montford's statue of Philosophy on the Kelvin Way Bridge in Glasgow. I guess it makes a change from a road cone! npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Good morning, Glasgow, and happy Winter Solstice to those of you who mark it. This was the Solstice sunrise at the Sighthill Stone Circle in the north of the city. Created in 1979, it was the first astronomically aligned stone circle built in Scotland in over 3,000 years. With just 6 hours and 59 minutes between sunrise and sunset, today is the shortest day of the year, and for the next six months, we will get a little more daylight every single day! npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The Art Deco brilliance of the former Beresford Hotel on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Built in 1937, it was designed by William Beresford Inglis, who later went on to manage and own it. The Beresford has an unexpected place in American 20th Century politics as it was here in 1939 that a 22 year old John F. Kennedy (who would go on to become president) gave his first official public speech. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Some beautiful Art Nouveau tenement tiles from the Broomhil area of glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow This is a beautiful little building with an unexpected historical connection. It's 20 Cambridge Street in Glasgow and it was desiged in a Venetian style by Duncan McNaughtan. Built in 1884, at one time it was a warehouse for William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, one of greatest 19th Century scientists who is now best remembered for his work on absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature in the universe. How cool is that? npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this column of recessed bow windows on the facade of the former George Hotel on Buchanan Street in Glasgow. Built in 1907, it was designed by Neil Duff. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this old Guinness advert mural of the old Crown Flour Mills cart entrance on Washington Street in Glasgow. It's beeb painted on the wooden board which covers it, and you can still see the ghost signs for the mill above it. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow I love this gushet building on the corner of Argyle Street and Minerva Street in Glasgow. Despite its granduer, I suspect many people drive or walk past it every day without really taking in its true beauty. Thought to have been designed by Alexander Kirkland, it's the most impressive building in a pretty much untouched 1850s tenement streetscape in the west of the city that is an important, but under appreciated, part of its architectural heritage. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Sunset at Zaha Hadid's 2011 Riverside Museum on Pointhouse Quay in Glasgow. Reflected in the lower window is the 2024 Govan-Partick Pedestrian bridge, with the buildings of Govan beyond that. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Late this afternoon at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A rather grand Scots Baronial style tenement on the corner of Dumbarton Road and Plean Street in the west of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A squirrel urging me not to obey a Do Not Feed The Squirrels sign on Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow, although given the warning below it, I resisted! The sign isn't an official one, but was created by A Sign of Humour. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Philosophy by Paul Raphael Montford on the Kelvin Way Bridge in the West End of Glasgow. It's part of one of the four pairs of allegorical figures created around 1920 specifically for this bridge. Philosophy is paired with Inspiration. The other pairs are Peace and War, Navigation and Shipbuilding, and Commerce and Industry. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow This morning's pale pinky orange winter sunrise over tenement chimneys in west of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Partly because there's a lot more to Glasgow's architecture than CRM, and partly because there's surprisingly little CRM around (especially since the Art School burned down, again). I will try to post some, soon though (I've been on more of an Alexander 'Greek' Thomson kick lately). 🙂 npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A rain-soaked early 19th Century sundial in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens. Despite our prevailing climate, Scotland has a surprsingly long history and abundance of sundials going back to the 16th Century. This includes obelisk sundials, which are unique to Scotland. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A smudge of rainbow rising above the island of Little Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde as seen during this morning's dog walk along Portencross Beach. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow This relief sculpture is on the late 19th Century Ross Hall in the Crookston area of Glasgow and it shows a heron eating an eel. I've got no idea why it's there, but it's a beautiful piece of craftsmenship none-the-less. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this tile design I came across this week in tenement in the Shawlands area of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A very late season sunflower bringing a splash of colour to the streets in the Anderston Green Spaces plot on William Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The Deoch an Dorus on Dumbarton Road in the Partick area of Glasgow. Designed by George Bell, who created a series of Art Nouveau style public houses across the city, it was built for the spirit merchant Robert Anderson and opened in 1904. It was previously known as the Hayburn Vaults, after the Hay Burn, a small stream which used to run through this part of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow David and James Hamilton's Grand Processional connecting Glasgow Cathedral (top right) to the Necropolis. Built in the 1830s, for many Glaswegians it marked the final journey from the city of the living across Bridge of Sighs over the Moledinar Ravine to the city of the dead. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow I came across this absolutely stunning example of a painted glass window today in the communal stairwell of a red sandstone tenement in the Langside area of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Torridon Court in the Woodside area of Glasgow. Built in 1964, it's one of many multistorey flats constructed across Glasgow in that time period. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Early morning on the Partick-Govan pedestrian bridge (just not this particular morning!). npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow An abandoned pair of angel wings found stuffed behind a dumpster on a rainy Sunday morning. Welcome to life in Glasgow! npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Looking out, this afternoon, across an Autumnal Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow With the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness well underway here in Glasgow, I thought I'd re-post one of my favourite photos of the city wrapped in Autumnnal fog. It was taken early one September morning shortly after this bridge between Govan and Partick was first opened in 2024. I'd intended to take a person-free shot, but then the guy in the yellow jacket strode out of the mist. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Good morning, Glasgow. It's a foggy, and chilly, start to the day across the city, but it did make for an atmospheric early morning dog walk. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The tower on a Scots Baronial style Voctorian warehouse on the corner of Albion Street and Trongate in central Glasgow. Designed by J.T. Rochead, it was built for the City of Glasgow Bank in 1854. I particularly like the thistle finial right at the very top. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Art Deco style mosaic on the former British Polar Engines Works on Helen Street on the Southside of Glasgow. The company was formed in 1927 to produce a range of reliable marine diesel engines originating from a Swedish design which was used on the Fram as part of Roald Amundsen's 1906 expedition to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1911. It went into liquidation in 2022. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Every sign has a story behind it, and I suspect this one in Bowling, just to the west of Glasgow, might be more interesting than most. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow By the late 1800s, the Glasgow Corporation had become a pioneer of Municipal Socialism and provided a wide range of services to try to improve the lives of its population, including extensive public housing, schools, art galleries and museums, public transport, public health, and parks. It also provided utilities such as electricity and gas, and in 1859, it created the first council-owned public water suppy in the UK in a bid to improve the city's health through the provision of clean water. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A plaque marking trees planted alongside the Clyde at Glasgow Green to commemorate the demise of the Glasgow Corporation, and its replacement by the City of Glasgow District Council, in 1975. While officially created in 1890, the Glasgow Town Council was known as the Glasgow Corporation ever since the city was given its first Burgh Charter in 1175, some 850 years ago. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow This plaque has been around for a while, but I passed it a few times while training for last weekend's Great Scottish Run, and it always makes me smile when I do, so I thought I'd post it again. It's on a wall beside the Maryhill Locks in Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Saint Ninian Terrace in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. While this is a relatively new building (dating from the 1990s), it incorporates a number of classic characteristics of Glasgow's traditional architecture. This including recessed corner bay windows, a lantern on a feature corner roof, and sweeping curved lines. If we could do this as recently as a couple of decades ago, why are so many new builds in the city now just generic boxes with no local flavour? npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins on the 1890s Standard Buildings on Gordon Street in central Glasgow. Attributed by James Young, this is one of the few achitectural sculptures with an overtly biblical inspiration in the city's Victorian financial district. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A blonde sandstone tenement on the corner of King Street and Parnie Street in Glasgow city centre. I particularly like the concentric rings of corbels just below the candle-snuffer roof on this tenement. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Glasgow pubs can look very inviting on wet and windy nights like tonight. This particular one is the he Islay Inn on the corner of Argyle Street and Radnor Street in the West End of the city. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Just a quick reminder I have a stall at the Byres Road Market today in Hillhead Library, with copies of Glasgiow Uncovered for sale as well as prints, cards and my range of calendars for 2026. It's on from 11am until 4pm. Feel free to come by and say hi (even if you don't buy anything!) npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Just another rather glorious Glasgow Public Library building. This is the 1905 former Hutchesontown District Library on McNeil Street. Who wouldn't be inspired to read in a building like this? npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow I love coming across fly agaric fungi fruitimg bodies at this time of year as they're the classic mushrooms from childhood fairystories. This one was on a grass verge in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The Attendants by Heisenberg. Installed in 2002 on new flats on Malta Terrace and Caledonia Road in the Gorbals in Glasgow, this is one of a series of similar figures, above each of the close entrances in the block. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this grasshopper sculpture on one of the gates of the New Gorbals Park on the southside of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A former small-scale industrial building dating from around the end of the Victorian era in the Hidden Lane in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Men, Myths and Monsters: A Brief Introduction to Glasgow's Many Weird and Wonderful Architectural Sculptures. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Looking up the Clyde just after sunset towards the centre of Glasgow from the Riverside Museum. I love this view, and I photograph it a lot, but this one from September 2023 is my favourite shot of it. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow One of the things I love about Autumn is the abundance of fungi of all shapes and sizes. I came across these delicate little ones on a fallen tree today while walking the dog in Pollok Country Park in Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow As it's International Talk Like A Pirate Day today, it's a good time to explore where the skull-and-crossbones flag we now associate with pirates originated, and how this links to Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Not from today, obviously, but after all this afternoon's rain, I thought it was worth sharing what Glasgow can look like at this time of year (when the weather's being a little bit more cooperative!). npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow I love this little window canted out over the corner where Ingram Street meets Brunswick Street. This is the older of the two former J. and W. Campbell warehouses in the Merchant City, and it was built in the 1850s. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A fantastically beautiful Art Nouveau Rose tenement tile from a close on Kennyhill Square in the east end of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The lodge at the main entrance to Maxwell Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by H.E. Clifford, it was built in 1890, along with the neighbouring Pollokshields Burgh Hall. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow For me, having a large number of identical, mass-produced toppers all over the country really misses the point of them, and reduces the impact of the genuine ones. We already get more than enough advertsing in our lives, and some spaces should be left untainted by it for individual self-expression. I really hope this isn't a trend in advertising which takes off. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow It's part of a nationwide advertising campaign for the newly released film of The Thursday Murder Club, and they're being put out all over the UK. The design is good, as is the quality, but it's still advertising taking over a public space, and potentially displacing the work of local yarnbombers. It's also missing the things I like most about postbox toppers: their individuality and the fact they just done for the shear joy of it rather than for profit. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow I really like the knitted and crochetted postbox toppers you now see around Glasgow, amd elsewhere, on a regular basis. They showcase the best of creativity, street art and bringing a little individuality, joy and colour to everyday life. However, I'm really not too sure how I feel about this one on Great Western Road in the Kelvinside area of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Robert Dalglish's imposing 1882 Jacobean style Woodside Public School in the Woodlands area of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Last night at sunset in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow, looking towards the distinctive spires of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Musuem. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The gothic buildings of Glasgow University silhouetted against the sunset as seen from the neighbouring Kelvingrove Park. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Ruchill Parish Church Halls on Shakespeare Street in Glasgow is set to be sold by the Church of Scotland sometime in the next year. Built in 1899, it's probably the last Mackintosh building still owned by the original owner and still being used for its original purpose. It still retains a lot of its original features inside as well. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Andy Scott's statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh on Argyle Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow glowing golden in last rays of this evening's setting sun. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow There was a brief glimpse of the sun this evenning, just as I happened to be passing Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, setting the red sandstone aglow, just for a few minutes. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Who knew there were giant squid in the pond in Victoria Park in Glasgow! Thanks to A Sigb Of Humour for another informative sign. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Red sandstone tenements lining Dumbarton Road in the Partick area of Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The former factory built in the 1870s for Wylie and Lochhead Cabinet Makers on Kent Road in the Anderston area of Glasgow. It was designed by James Sellars and was converted into flats in the 1980s. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The Glasgow Close Knit exhibition at the Briggait in Glasgow, featuring over 400 hand-knitted and crocheted blankets, symbolising compassion for vulnerable individualsn covering the floor of the 19th century former fish market. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Tenements against a Glasgow sunset. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow The recently renovated Renaissance style former Central Thread Agency on Bothwell Street in Glasgow. Designed by Hugh and David Barclay, it was built in the 1890s. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow This font used on the gateposts of the former Haghill Public School in the East End of Glasgow is just superb. Designed by A. Lindsay Miller and built in 1904, the school was demolished in 2022, but it's hoped some of the original features will be incorporated in the affordable housing planned for the site. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this sign from A Sign of Humour I spotted on a bike rack in Argyle Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow today. Not really too sure it's needed, but better safe than sorry! npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this simple but stunning group of windows above the door of the former Chalmer's Free Church on Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow. Originally built in 1897, the current glasswork is much newer, but it blends really well with the older stonework. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow I absolutely love this sculpted nameplate on Baltic Chambers on Wellington Street in Glasgow. It was built in 1897 in the Free Clasaical Style from a design by Duncan McNaughtan. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Just a quick reminder that I have a stall at the Byres Road Market today in Hillhead Library, with copies of Glasgiow Uncovered for sale as well as prints, cards and some framed replicas of Odell's Tenement Night Latch Keys which I make from time to time. It's open from 11am until 4pm. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love the floral display on these steps leading up to a Victorian tenement building on Queen's Drive on the Southside of Glasgow. The central door leads to the communal stairwell leading to the flats on the upper storeys, while the ones on either side are individual entrances to the two ground floor flats. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow A rather beautiful Glasgow Style tenement on Dumbarton Road in the Partick area of the city. Designed by Campbell Douglas and A.N. Paterson, it was built in 1910, and must be one of the last Glasgow Style tenements constructed in Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this spirelet on Saint Mungo's Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow, with fish-scale bands and topped by an ornate iron cross with a rather unusual heart-shaped nimbus. The church was built in 1841 in an Italianate Gothic style from a design by George Goldie. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Mosaics of scenes from the history of the Gardgad and Royston areas of Glasgow. Created by local community groups working with artist Jane McInally, they can be found in Spire Park surrounding the remains of the former Townhead-Blochairn Parish Church. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow I love this lion at the base of a lectern in the Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. npub1904tzc22w2nra46qss9emd3k37n0fx58y50kne2upnj3lzy6u4msfytf7j This Is My Glasgow Love this piece of chalk street art in Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow.
