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Professor's Townhouse, the Principal's Lodge and main buildings of Glasgow University's late 19th Century Gilmorehill Campus in the West End of the city.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowuniversity #gilmorehill #scotland

1870s buildings of Glasgow university's Gilmorehill Campus.

Love this little sculpture on the facade of Glasgow University's Isabella Elder Building. I'm not quite too sure what it is (a cat perhaps?), but whatever it is, it looks rather skeletal.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #grotesque #glasgowuniversity #sculpture #architecturalsculpture #skeleton #cat #scotland

A skeletal animal on the facade of a Scottish university building.

A plaque in Professors' Square on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus marking the graduation of Madge Easton Anderson, the first woman to practise law in the UK. This followed the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act in 1919 which allowed woman, for the first time, to become solicitors, barristers, chartered accountants and vets.

#glasgow #glasgowhistory #glasgowuniversity

A plaque which reads Madge Easton Anderson. 1896 -1982. Solicitor. First woman to practise law in the UK. Graduated from this university in 1919.

The gothic tower of Glasgow University in the late evening sun. While most of this building was designed by George Gilbert Scott and was built in the 1860s, the tower and spire were only completed by his son, John Oldrid Scott, in the 1890s.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowuniversity #glasgowhistory #scotland

Wednesday 14:46
What a wonderful day so far.
I met this group touring God's Pantry Food Bank from Glasgow University, Scotland and got to ask them "Far ye fae?". They all answered.
They even sang "Happy Birthday" to me.
Then I was asked to pose with them for a photo.
#FoodBank #GlasgowUniversity #Kentucky

Before this we had an all-staff meeting where we ate tasty food from Honey Baked Ham.
#HoneyBakedHam

Now home grabbing a nap.
This evening Arianna & I shall be attending our last Church Growth Group of the season.
We will be having cake.
Actually passed up a slice of 70 year birthday cake at work because of this. The work that is, not me as I am now a young 58.
#Church #Cake #BirthdayCake

Group from Glasgow University, Scotland at God's Pantry Food Bank.
I am front middle.

Group from Glasgow University, Scotland at God's Pantry Food Bank.
Taken from my office window.

Ham Croissant Sandwich with BBQ Crisps from Honey Baked Ham.
Served with a can of Coke.

“A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings.”

Shipyard union leader James Reid was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow in 1971. He gave his rectorial address #OTD, 28 April, 1972. The New York Times reprinted it, & called it the greatest political speech since the Gettysburg Address. Read it online at

https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_167194_smxx.pdf

#Scottish #literature #politics #alienation #politicalspeech #Glasgow #GlasgowUniversity

The cover of ALIENATION, James Reid's Rectorial Address at the University of Glasgow in 1972. The cover shows two black-and-white photos quartered together by a saltire cross. The left and right sections show a view of a quadrangle at the University; the top and bottom quadrants show a view of cranes and a line of shipyard workers respectively.

Right beside the 1960s Brutalist former Adam Smith building featured in my last post is this rather beautiful terrace of red sandstone Glasgow Style town houses built in 1907 and designed by John Nisbet. It's really quite a contrast in styles between neighbouring buildings!

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowstyle #glasgowuniversity #butegardens

A terrace of red sandstone Glasgow style Edwardian townhouses.

Love this Brutalist floating stairwell on the former Adam Smith Building on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus. Designed by David Harvey, Alex Scott & Associates and opened in 1967, this section rather reminds me of a giant concrete extractor fan of the type found in trendy tenement flats throughout the surrounding West End.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #brutalistarchitecture #glasgowuniversity #adamsmithbuilding

An apparently floating stairwell on the end of a Brutalist concrete university building.

As it's St George's Day today, I thought I'd post one of my favourite sculptures of Saint George fighting a dragon. It's from the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel and was ceated in the 1920. I love the rather worried look the sculptor, Archibald Dawson, has given St George as the dragon bites into his shield!

#glasgow #sculpture #stgeorgesday #stgeorgeandthedragon #dragons #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowuniversity #stgeorge

A sculpture of St George cowering behind his shield as a dragon bites into it.

What looks like an old gravestone, featuring a memento mori, set into a wall beside the 1850s Ivy Lodge (now part of Glasgow University) on Gibson Street in the Hillhead area of Glasgow. I need to go back and look at this again to see if I can work out if it really is a gravestone (and, if so, its potential age - such memento mori are typically a feature of 17th or 18th century gravestones in Scotland), or whether it's something else.

#glasgow #glasgowuniversity #mementomori #gravestone

What looks like an old gravestone featuring a memento mori set into a wall in Glasgow.

A dinosaur mural hidden away on the side of the Chemistry building of Glasgow University where it faces the Zoology building across a narrow, dead-end lane. I've often wondered if the Chernistry Department even knows it's there!

By the way, before anyone points it out, I know the one with the sail on its back isn't really a dinosaur, but another type of ancient giant reptile!

#glasgow #mural #dinosaurs #zoology #chemistry #glasgowuniversity #universityofglasgow

I started the day with a sunrise shot of Glasgow University over the River Kelvin, so it makes sense to end with an evening one from the same spot (although not one taken today).

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowuniversity #kelvingrove #riverkelvin #nightphotography #kelvingrovepark

The main buildings of Glasgow University late in the evening.

Good morning, Glasgow. This was the view up the Kelvin at Kelvingrove at sunrise this morning. It looks like it's going to be another magnificent day!

#glasgow #kelvingrove #glasgowuniversity #sunrise #goodmorning #goodmorningglasgow #glasgowsunrise #glasgowtoday

The Gothic tower of Glasgow University rising above the river Kelvin and silhouetted against the sunrise.

This is a beautiful little detail on the door of Glasgow University's Graham Kerr Building. Designed by J.J.Burnet and built in the 1920s, it was originally constructed as the Zoology Building.

#glasgow #zoology #architecture #doorfurniture #snake #doorhandle #glasgowuniversity

A circular brass door handle, with a sculpture of small snake curled round it.

Sunrise and moonset over the gothic main building of Glasgow University.

#glasgow #glasgowuniversity #kelvingrovepark #moonset #sunrise #nightphotography #glasgowatnight

The moon setting behind Glasgow University's main tower just as the sun is rising.

Looking out over Glasgow from the Hamiltonhill Claypits Nature Reserve on the Forth and Clyde Canal. This was a photo I took last May, but never seem to have got round to posting.

#glasgow #forthandclydecanal #glasgowuniversity #hamiltonhillclaypits #cityscape #dogwalking

A person walking a dog along a canal towpath. In the distance are the spires and steeples of a number of Glasgow buildings.

The surviving 19th Century South Lodge of Garscube House on Bearsden Road in the west of Glasgow. Garscube House, a large Georgian era mansion built in 1827, was demolished in 1954, but a number of other buildings on its surrounding estate still exist. This estate is now occupied by Glasgow University's Garscube Campus.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #garscubecampus #glasgowuniversity

A small, stone lodge built at the entrance to a large Georgian-era country estate.

The main house of the Home Farm on the Garscube Estate on the northwestern edge of Glasgow. This land had been owned by the Campbell family since 1687, and in 1827 Archibald Campbell built the grand Garscube House on the estate to replace an earlier mansion. The house and lands were subsequently purchased by Glasgow University in 1948, and who still own it now.

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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowhistory #garscube #garscubeestate #glasgowuniversity #glasgowvetschool #architecturephotography

A surviving mid-19th Century farm house on the northwestern edge of Glasgow.

Glasgow University's Gothic tower and main buildings against this evening's rather stunning sunset.

#glasgow #glasgowuniversity #kelvingrovepark #architecture #architecturephotography
#glasgowbuildings

A Gothic university tower and surrounding buildings silhouetted against an orange and golden sunset.

This is one of my favourite views of Glasgow University. It's from the Hamiltonhill Claypits Nature Reserve on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of the city.

#glasgow #glasgowuniversity #hamiltonhillclaypits #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowbuildings

#glasgowuniversity

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