Notices by This Is My Glasgow (thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot)

Good morning, Glasgow. For the next few days, the sun will rise directly behind the Squinty Bridge, making for some great photo opportunities - provided the skies remain relatively cloud free!

#glasgow #goodmorning #glasgowtoday #sunrise #squintybridge

The Knowe, just off Albert Drive on the Southside of Glasgow. This beautiful Romanesque villa was designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson and was constructed as a country house in several stages in the 1850s.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #pollokshields #alexandergreekthomson

For me autumn is the season of falling leaves and fungi, such as this rather impressive example of a shaggy inkcap which I came across today in Pollok Park on the Southside of Glasgow.

#glasgow #autumn #shaggyinkcap #fungi #pollokcountrypark

Father Clyde on the Clydesdale Bank Building on Saint Vincent Place in Glasgow. I love the fish poking out of his beard, and the pair in his hair holding up a ring. It was sculpted by Charles Grassby in the 1870s.

#glasgow #architecture #fatherclyde #sculpture #architecturephotography

The statue of William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, one of the greatest scientists of his age, in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow. Sculpted by Archibald Macfarlane Shannan, it was unveiled in 1913. Lord Kelvin was also both the youngest (aged 10) and the oldest (aged 75) student to matriculate at Glasgow University. Between these two ages, he also serves as the university's Professor of Natural Philosophy for 53 years.

#glasgow #lordkelvin #statue #sculpture #kelvingrovepark

Living in Glasgow can sometimes have its challenges, especially at this time of year when the weather can be rather wet and the nights are drawing in, but then you come across something like this on Park Drive in the Woodlands area of the city and you're reminded why you'd never want to live anywhere else!

#glasgow #keepglasgowweird #streetart #banana #peoplemakeglasgow

An imposing 1935 Neo-Baroque style former Telephone Exchange in the Tradeston area of Glasgow. It's lain empty for a very long time, however, when I passed yesterday I noticed many of its windows have recently been opened.

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A ghost building seen from Springfield Court in central Glasgow, with fire places and bricked-up doorways still visible on the remianing wall. This building was originally part of a row of 1830s tenements which lined the neighbouring South Exchange Court. By start of the 1900s, they were primarily used as warehouses and offices.

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This statue on the top of the former Glasgow Savings Bank at Parkhead Cross is one of the city's more unusual architectural sculptures as it shows a man strangling a wolf with his bare hands (and yes, you read that right!).

Created in 1908 by Archibald Macfarlane Shannan, it's titled Prudence Strangling Poverty, with the male figure representing Prudence and the wolf representing Want.

#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #parkhead #architecturephotography

Ferry No. 8 at Kelvin Harbour in Glasgow. This double-ended ferry was one of many owned and operated by the Clyde Navigation Trust to move people and vehicles back and forth across the Clyde. These ferries were needed as bridges could not be built across it without hindering movement of ships up and downstream.

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When you're in the Garnethill area of Glasgow, keep an eye out for the small bird sculptures on the top of the lamp posts. There's over 150 of them and they are part of an art installation called Chookie Burdies created by Shona Kinloch in 1993.

#glasgow #sculpture #garnethill #publicart

Every now and then on my wanders around Glasgow, I come across one of these upside down T-shaped keyholes on the door of a Victorian building. It's for an Odell Night Latch Key, of the type shown on the right.

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#glasgow #odelllatchkey #doorfuriture #keys #locks

After 33 years in the same hands, the Garage, one of Glasgow's most iconic venues, is up for sale. Opened by Donald MacLeod in 1994, it's not only one of the largest nightclubs in the city, it's also a key mid-sized music venue where you can see an eclectic mix of up-and-coming bands and music legends. Fingers-crossed that whoever takes it on next doesn't try to change it too much (and maybe even leaves in place its distinctive truck over the main entrance).

#glasgow #garage #sauchiehallstreet

I love this corner tower with a bell-cast roof topped by a copper dome on a villa on Southbrae Drive on the Jordanhill area of Glasgow. Known as Towerdene, it was built around 1900.

#glasgow #architecture #tower #jordanhill #architecturephotography

I absolutely love this little owl on a Georgian townhouse on Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow. It was built in the 1830s, but the owl appears to be part of later alterations.

#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #owl #animalsinarchitecture

This is one of a number of interesting little markers set into the stonework of the Forth and Clyde Canal near The Whisky Bond in the north of Glasgow. They're a reminder of a project called Displacement carried out there in July 2015.

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@Infoseepage It didn't even need the building to catch fire to cause problems. Simply the smoke from a film cannister igniting could cause a disaster if it drifted into the auditorium and created panic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cinema_disaster

The entrance to the former Salon cinema in the west end of Glasgow. Designed by Brand and Lithgow, it opened as the Hillhead Picture Salon in 1913. It was made with Hennebique Ferro concrete to make it as fire-proof as possible, and was one of the few cinemas to be made using this system.

#glasgow #oldcinema #architecture #architecturephotography

The Romanesque Queen's Park Baptist Church on Queen's Drive in Glasgow. Built in 1886, it was designed by MacKissack and Rowan.

#glasgow #church #queenspark #architecture #architecturephotography

@Infoseepage It may well be that they still exist, and it's just I haven't got my eye in for finding them yet. I know this has happened with other things before, and once you finally spot one, you start seeing them everywhere! 😀