Red sandstone tenements on Vinicombe Street in the West End of Glasgow.

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This is the Ruthven Lane Cat in the west end of Glasgow. It's high on a wall on the back of an old tenement building, and it really doesn't look like it belongs there. It's a bit of a mystery as to who put it there, and why.

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Love this double villa on Lorraine Road in the West End of Glasgow. It was designed by David Barclay and was built in 1899.

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The original residents were Thomas Sawers, a fishmonger, poulterer and ice merchant (in the house on the left), and John MacDonald, a tobacco and snuff manufacturer (in the one of the right).

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Love this Scottish Baronial style double villa on Buckingham Street in the West End of Glasgow. Built in 1886, they were designed by the wonderfully named Horatio Kelson Bromhead (no relation to the equally wonderfully named Gonville Bromhead of Rorke's Drift fame).

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Looking along the townhouses on Buckingham Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by J.T. Rochhead, they were built in the 1850s.

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Gushet tenement overlooking the River Kelvin in the West End of Glasgow.

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1880s townhouses on Grosvenor Crescent in the West End of Glasgow. The first occupant of the two houses on the right is listed as Mrs Arnott, a china merchant at James Dymock & Co, whose premises were just around the corner at 309 Byres Road.

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The imposing and rather stunning Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church on Observatory Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed in a French Gothic style by James Sellars, it was inspired by the medieval Sainte Chapelle in Paris.

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Old Rely-A-Bell burglar alarm box on Great George Street in the West End of in Glasgow. First created around 1904, Rely-A-Bell burglar alarms were initially manufactured by the London ironmonger Thomas Gunn. It was spun off into its own company, the Rely-a-Bell Burglar and Fire Alarm Company Limited, in 1921. It's believed to be the oldest burglar alarm company in the UK.

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A rather beautiful Scots Renaissance style townhouse on the corner of Kirklee Road and Redlands Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John A. Campbell, it was built in 1900.

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A curving terrace of Victorian townhouses on Kirklee Quadrant in the West End of Glasgow.

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Blonde sandstone tenement on Highburgh Road in the West End of Glasgow.

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The Argyle Street Ash Tree in the West End of Glasgow. Believed to have been accidently planted when the tenemenets were built around 1850, this lone tree has somehow survived for almost 175 years. This makes it older than many other features of the West End, including the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus, and even the nearby Kelvingrove Park.

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A rather fabulous Scots Renaissance style townhouse on the corner of Redlands Road and Kirklee Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John A. Campbell, it was built in 1900.

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Early Edwardian Tenement on Highburgh Road in the West End of Glasgow. Built in 1902, it was designed by David Barclay.

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1870s blonde sandstone tenements on Dowanside Road in the West End of Glasgow, with the ubiquitous Glaswegian bay windows to allow in as much light as possible.

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One and a half green doors on Ruskin Lane in the West End of Glasgow. I've no idea what the half door is for.

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By the 1890s (bottom left), both the mill and much of the road had gone, and both Sauchiehall Street and Radnor Street had appeared. By the 1940s (bottom right), the area had been fully built up, and the land which the rest of Clayslaps Road once traversed had been changed into a bowling green.

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Well, it's actually all that remains of a once much longer road which not only pre-dates both Sauchiehall Street and Randor Street, it also pre-dates much of the rest of the West End. The top right map is from around the 1850s and shows the original much longer Clayslaps Road leading all the way up to the now long gone Clayslap Mill on the banks of the River Kelvin.

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