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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · 2d ago

I love this old brick building hidden away on Springfield Court behind the granduer of Buchanan Street in central Glasgow.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · 4d ago

Number 6 Claremont Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John Baird in a Classical style, it was originally built in 1842 as a freestanding mansion before being converted into a terrace in 1847.

Between 1869 and 1906, it was the home of the philanthropist Isabella Elder who funded many causes around the city, but particularly those related to education, especially of women.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · 5d ago

Early morning on the Clyde in Glasgow.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · 6d ago

Spotted on Kew Terrace today, this has to be the most Glaswegian sign I've seen in a long time. If you woke up after a night out recently in bed with a hangover and more gnomes than usual, please return them to their rightful home.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 09, 2026

A final post on the Union Street fire for now. Thanks to all the firefighters from the Scottish fire and Rescue Service who worked tirelessly late into the night to ensure the fire was as contained as possible and didn't spread to the surrounding buildings of Central Station, which would have been even more devastating to the city's architectural heritage.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 09, 2026

The view from Gordon Street, showing the remaining facade of the Union Corner building. With nothing to support it and due to the heat from the fire, it's likely to be structurally unsound.

On the left is the Ca'D'Oro, another listed building at the same junction, which was gutted by a fire 1987, but was successfully rebuilt within a couple of years, although it has an iron facade which made this much easier to achieve.

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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 stretche

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 09, 2026

This is not a good scene to wake up to, but at least no one in the building or any firefighters were hurt. The neighbouring Central Station, a key element of Victorian Glasgow and an important hub for modern communters, is closed, but is hopefully unharmed. #glasgow #glasgowtoday #fire #unionstreet #glasgowcentral

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 09, 2026

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. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowtoday #fire #unionstreet #glasgowcentral

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 08, 2026

There's currently a major fire on Union Street in the centre of Glasgow. There are no reports of casualties, but apparently parts of the building involved have collapsed.

As far as I can work out from the news footage, it's the building in the centre of this photo (which I took last year) which has been affected.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 08, 2026

Women have helped change the world in many different ways, but possibly the strangest involved a woman from Glasgow named May Donoghue and a dead snail. In August 1928, she travelled to the nearby town of Paisley where she bought a bottle of ginger beer which caused her to become rather ill due to the fact it contained the remains of a decaying mollusc.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 08, 2026

Pink blossoms on a Glasgow street and warmth in the air - Spring is definitely here!

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 07, 2026

Roe deer amongst the gravestones in Sighthill Cemetery in Glasgow this morning. Opened in 1840, on what was, until then, farmland, it's typical of the garden cemeteries created in the Victorian era, which were designed as much for the the living to visit as they were a final resting place for the dead. Even now, garden cemeteries like this one provide a tranquil green space in the city, as well as an oasis for wildlife.

#glasgow #urbannature #sighthillcemetery #roedeer #wildglasgow

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 02, 2026

The end wall of 1 Moray Place in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. Built in 1859, it was designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson as part of a terrace of Classical Townhouses. Thomson himself lived here with his family between 1861 and his death in 1875.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 01, 2026

Crossmyloof Mansions at Shawlands Cross in Glasgow. This is another of Glasgow's magnificent 19th century gushet tenement buildings with, of course, space for a pub on the ground floor. I always think buildings like this look like giant stone trams just getting ready to move off down the street.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 27, 2026

This evening's sunset at Milarrochy Bay on Loch Lomond. I love that we have such great wild spaces just a short trip from Glasgow.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 26, 2026

Looking up at the central oculus in the rather stunning dome of the Hamilton Mausoleum to the southeast of Glasgow. Built as the final resting place for the Dukes of Hamilton in the 1840s and 1850s, it was designed by David Hamilton, with additions by David Bryce and Alexander Handyside Ritchie.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 26, 2026

An old sticker on a lamp post at Glasgow Green. I have no idea why it is there, but this is a slogan which has, over the years, been used in a variety of forms to highlight the importance of education, reading and gaining knowledge.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 25, 2026

Love the shape of these chimneys on Glasgow University's Scottish Baronial style James Watt North Building.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 25, 2026

This morning I saw my first daffodils of the year in Victoria Park in Glasgow. It might seem unlikely, but today's popularity of these Spring blooms is all down to a man called Peter Barr. Born in Govan in 1826, Barr became enchanted with the yellow blooms, which had fallen out of fashion in the Victorian era, partly due to the Queen's dislike of them.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 25, 2026

The 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, including the gateposts, will be incorporated in the affordable housing planned for the site.

A mounted print of this photo is now available on my online shop at https://www.thisismyglasgow.com/product/haghill-public-school-ghost-sign-print-mounted-size-10-inch-by-12-inch/

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 24, 2026

These are some of my favourite townhouses in the west end of Glasgow. Situated on Dowanside Road, they were designed by David Barclay and were built around 1900 as part of a development of similar houses in this area.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #hyndland #dowanhill

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 23, 2026

La Pasionaria on Clyde Street in Glasgow. A favourite of many people, this statue is a memorial to the 2,100 British volunteers who fought for the Republican cause against Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. Of these, 534 died, including 65 from Glasgow.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 21, 2026

Just a quick reminder that the Argyle Street Ash Tree in Glasgow is in the running to become European Tree of the Year for 2026, and the public vote ends tomorrow (22nd Feb). If you haven't voted yet, you can do so at https://www.treeoftheyear.org/vote/argyle-street-ash

#glasgow #europeantreeoftheyear #tree #argylestreet #argylestreetashtree

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 20, 2026

St Alphonsus Church on London Road in the East End of Glasgow. Built in 1905, it was designed in a Gothic style by Peter Paul Pugin of the ecclesiastical architects Pugin and Pugin.

#glasgow #church #architecture #calton #architecturephotography

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 18, 2026

The 1840s draw-off tower at Waulkmill Glen Reservoir near Darnley to the south of Glasgow. This was part of the Gorbals Gravitation Water Company development desighed by the engineer William Gale to supply clear water to the Gorbals area of Glasgow.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 18, 2026

The Romanesque style former Prince's Dock hydraulic power station on the south side of the Clyde in Glasgow. Designed by Burnet, Son and Campbell, it was built in 1894 for the Clyde Navigation Trust. In the foregound is the accumulator tower into which water was pumped and held under pressure to provide power to the dock's various cranes, lifts and other equipment.

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 17, 2026

A beautifully crafted owl capital on a barley twist column to the left of the door of the Tennent Memorial Building on Church Street in Glasgow. This represents night, and on the opposite side of the door is a similar column with a rooster capital, representing day.

#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #architecturalphotography #churchstreet

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 17, 2026

I came across this in the Kinning Park area of Glasgow yesterday. I don't know if it's modern art, a statement of intent, or just a warning to any would-be uninvited visitors. Either way, it's definitely one for the Keep Glasgow Weird file!

#glasgow #kinningpark #keepglasgowweird #santa #foundart

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 17, 2026

Love the details on the top floor of this corner turret. It's part of James Salmon Jnr and J. Gaff Gillespie's beautiful 1899 Glasgow Style Savings Bank building on Argyle Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #anderston #glasgowstyle #architecturephotography

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 17, 2026

The Mitchell Library in Glasgow in looking magnificent against today's blue skies. Designed by William B. Whitie in an Edwardian Baroque style and opened in 1911, it's one of the largest public reference libraries in Europe. The two statues in this shot are Wisdom by Thomas John Clapperton (seated) and Literature by Johan Keller (on the top of the dome).

#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #mitchelllibrary #architecturephotography

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 17, 2026

The Art Deco brilliance of the former Beresford Hotel on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow looking at its best in today's sunshine. Built in 1937, it was designed by William Beresford Inglis, who later went on to manage and own it.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #sauchiehallstreet #beresford

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 17, 2026

Good morning, Glasgow, and what a start to the day! This is what it looked like on the Clyde waterfront at about 9am.

#glasgow #goodmorning #cityscape #reflections #theclyde

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 17, 2026

The Lion Chambers on Hope Street in Glasgow. Designed by James Salmon Jnr in a mix of Glasgow Style and Scottish Baronial, it was built in 1905 using the Hennebique System of reinforced concrete, but is now in a rather sad state.

#glasgow #architecture #buildingsatrisk #architecturephotography

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 16, 2026

Maybe I'm just parsing it the wrong way, but could you get away with this restaurant name anywhere other Glasgow? And it's in the fashionable area of Finnieston, too!

#glasgow #keepglasgowweird #parsing #finnieston #scotland

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 16, 2026

Love this doorway on Southpark Avenue in the West End of Glasgow. It's part of Gildard and Macfarlane's 1850s Belgrave Terrace which I featured earlier today, but while the entrances on the main facade facing Great Western Road are relatively plain, this one is much more decorative.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #hillhead #doorway

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 16, 2026

With the Winter Olympics underway, curling is one again getting mainstream media coverage. However, curling was once a much more popular sport and even in Glasgow outdoor curling rinks were relatively common. However, as far as I'm aware, they've all now disppeared, except for this one in Victoria Park, and even then it's no longer used for curling and is in pretty poor condition.

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#glasgow #curling #victoriapark #partickcurlingclub #partick

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 15, 2026

Britannia guarding a lost shoe on Atlantic Chambers high above Hope Street in Glasgow. Whenever I see something like this, it always makes me wonder what the story is behind how it go there.

#glasgow #architecture #lostshoe #hopestreet #sculpture

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 14, 2026

The 1920s Kelvin Hall on Argyle Street in Glasgow looking as impressive as ever in the early morning sun.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #kelvinhall

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 11, 2026

This is the wonderful former Prudential Insurance Company building on the corner of Renfield Street and West Regent Street in central Glasgow. Built in 1888, it was designed by Alfred Waterhouse.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #buildingphotography #architecturephotography

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 08, 2026

Lochie in the Buchanan Galleries in central Glasgow. Designed by Douglas Roulston, Lochie is the first of what will be fifty uniquely decorated giant Scottie Dogs which will form a trail around the city this summer. The trail is being created in association with Wild in Art to support Maggie's Cancer Care. #glasgow #sculpture #publicart #buchanangalleries #scottiedog

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 05, 2026

A rather wonderful 1885 French Renaissance style tenement, designed by W.M. Whyte, on Victoria Road on the Southside of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #queenspark

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 01, 2026

Today is Imbolc, an ancient Celtic festival marking the beginning of Spring and the return of light and life. Wouldn't this be the perfect time of year to have a festival to highlight Glasgow's fantastic architecture by lighting up as much of it as possible?

#glasgow #architecture #imbolc

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Jan 31, 2026

The iconic American-style truck emerging from the wall above the entrance to the legendary Garage night club on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. One of Scotland's largest clubs, the Garage opened in 1994. However, the building it's in is much older, with part of it (G2) being housed in a Georgian mansion which was built in 1812. While the truck is currently bright yellow, it has been painted many different colours over the years. #glasgow #thegarage #sauchiehallstreet #architecture

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Dec 28, 2025

A fine example of a wally close in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. A wally close is a tiled a commununal stairwell a Glasgow tenement, with the word wally being a Scots word for anything made from ceramics or china. This can include wally dugs (china dogs), and wallies (or false teeth). This, in itself, is derived from an older meaning of anything fancy, splendid or highly decorative. #glasgow #broomhill #tenements #tiles #ceramics #tenementtiles #wallyclose

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Nov 24, 2025

The Christmas decorations in my local Tesco are very realistic this year! #glasgow #tesco #robin #urbanwildlife #christmasdecorations

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 31, 2025

Seems like someone forgot about how big the Spring tides are at this time of year are when desiging this floating pontoon beside the Pointy Bridge on the Clyde in Glasgow. In case you're wondering, the difference between this evening's low and high tides will be 5.03 metres (usually its less than 4 metres).

#glasgow #pointybridge #theclyde #springtides #tide

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@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Mar 31, 2025

This is a beautif decorative Art Nouveau metal plaque of Neptune in a doorway of the Miller and Lang building on Darnley Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #artnouveau #pollokshields #neptune #glasgowbuildings #architecturephotography

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