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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 includes 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?
The entrance to the former Gorbals Public Library on Norfolk Street in Glasgow, which was built by the Office of Public Works around 1930.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #oldlibrary #gorbals #thegorbals #doorway #architecturephotography
The Gatekeeper on Kidston Terrace in the Gorbals area of Glaagow. It was created by Matt Baker in 2002 to mark the 3rd complete rebuilding of the local area in the last 150 years. Made of bronze and twice life-size, as far as I know, it's the only suspended public sculpture in the UK.
#glasgow #sculpture #architecture #architecturalsculpture #architecturalphotography #gorbals #thegorbals
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.
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Love this grasshopper sculpture on one of the gates of the New Gorbals Park on the southside of Glasgow.
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Maud Sulter was born in Glasgow, of Scots & Ghanaian descent: her poem âCirca 1930â argues that these two cultures âare not as disparate as they might / at first seem. Clan-based societies / With long memories and global diasporas.â
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/maud-sulter/
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The Southern Necropolis Lodge on Caledonia Road in Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson in a castellated Romanesque style, it was built in 1848.
#glasgow #architecture #southernnecropolis #gorbals #glasgowbuildings #cemetery #buildingphotography
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âClass-conscious we are, and class-conscious wull be
Till our fitâs on the neck oâ the Boorjoyzee.â
âDougal, chief of the Gorbals Die-Hards, in John Buchanâs HUNTINGTOWER. Buchanâs father was a minister at the John Knox Free Church in the Gorbals
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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17491019.gorbals-39-steps---can-learn-love-john-buchan/?ref=li
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There appears to be a time portal under a railway bridge in the Gorbals connecting modern day Glasgow to the American Wild West of the late 1800s!
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Saint Francis Church on Cumberland Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Built in 1868, it was designed in a Gothic style by Gilbert Blount, before being re-built towards the end of the 1870s by Pugin and Pugin.
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City of Glasgow College building in the Gorbals area of the city against this afternoon's leaden sky.
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The relief sculptures depict a crane hook with buildings behind it (top right photo), a miner's lamp with tower blocks in the background (middle right), and a beehive on an ionic capital (bottom right). However, for some reason, the last one always lòoks rather squid-like to me and reminds me of a larval stage of Dr Zoidberg from Futurama
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A late Victorian drinking fountain on Cumberland Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, with modern relief sculptures by Jim Harvey based on local history filling the niches which once held water.
The fountain was originally installed in 1889 at the junction of Cathcard Road and Crown Road. When it was scheduled for demolition in 1989, it was rescued by Harvey, who created the relief sculptures and persuaded the council to move it to a new location.
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Old branded access cover in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. A cursory search hasn't located R Morton and Son, but I presume they were plumbers. A deeper dive into the records should confirm this, but the site of their premises at 277 Ballater Street is now occupied by the Gorbals Leisure Centre.
From here, Twomax produced their upmarket knitwear which was sold by the likes of Selfridges, House of Fraser and Harrods. Their products were seen as being particularly fashionable in the 1960s and 1970s, but by the start of the 1980s the business was in decline and it soon closed. The building remained and is currenty being converted into residential housing.
#glasgow #knitwear #twomax #glasgowhistory #architecture #gorbals #architecturephotography #glasgowbuildings
The former Twomax factory on Old Rutherglen Road in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Originally built as a cotton mill in 1817, it was taken over by Twomax, a Glasgow-based knitwear manufacturer, in the 1920s. Twomax was started in a disused pub in the Bridgeton by Hugh McClure and Donald McIntosh (the two Macs from which its name was derived), before moving to this location.
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Birdcatchers by David Ralston above the entrance to new-build low rise housing on Queen Elizabeth Gardens in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. I realise these won't be to everyone's taste, but I really like them in a steampunk kind of way.
Former Georgian-era cotton mill on Old Rutherglen Road in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Built in 1817, it's the oldest surviving iron-framed mill building in the city, and possibly the whole of Scotland. It was originally owned by the cotton Spinner Robert Humphrey and then by Robert Thomson of the nearby Adelphi Cotton Works. It's currently in the process of being converted into residential accommodation.
#glasgow #architecture #industrialarchitecture
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A fallen petal on the Gorbals Rose Garden War Memorial commemorating Private James Stokes who was born in Hutchesontown in Glasgow and died in Kervenheim in Germany in 1945 while serving with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in single-handedly storming a number of enemy positions.
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