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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1h

Hyndland Road tenements in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #hyndland

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning, Glasgow. It's a misty start to the day, but with the leaves turning on the trees, it's still a day full of autumn-y goodness.

#glasgow #goodmorningglasgow #goodmorning #autumn #glasgowtoday #autumninglasgow #autumnphotography #mist

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 15h

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 15h

Love this little dragon on Robertson and Dobbie's 1908 Glasgow Style warehouse on the corner of Glassford Street and Wilson Street in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #merchantcity #buildingphotography #architecturephotography #sculpture #dragon

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 16h

There is that, too. I suspect when they were planned, there was the assumption that Glasgow would continue expanding outward and would eventually incorporate them. Of course, that never actually happened.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 16h

Different designers, but buily ibt the same year, which may explain the similarities. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 17h

While such developments made it easier for those living in surrounding suburbs to access the centre of Glasgow by car, they did little for the communities through which they passed.

#glasgow #strollox #possilpark #urbandevelopment #architecture #urbanplanning #tenement #architecturephotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 17h

Traditional pre-World War One red sandstone tenement on Springburn Road in the north of Glasgow left stranded by post-World War Two road development.

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#glasgow #strollox #possilpark #urbandevelopment #architecture #urbanplanning #tenement #glasgowtenements #architecturephotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

It also provided utilities such as electricity and gas, and in 1859, it created the first council-owned public water suppy in the UK in a a bid to improve the city's health through the provision of fresh, clean drinking water.

#glasgow #glasgowcorporation #glasgowhistory #municipalsocialism

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

Through this, it provided a wide range of services to try to inprove the lives of its population, including extensive public housing, schools, art galleries and museums, public transport, public health, and parks.

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#glasgow #glasgowcorporation #glasgowhistory #plaque #municipalsocialism

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

While officially created in 1890, the Glasgow Town Council was known as the Glasgow Corporation ever since the city was given its first Burgh Charter in 1175, some 850 years ago. By the late 1800s, the Glasgow Corporation had become a pioneer of Municipal Socialism.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

A plaque marking trees planted alongside the Clyde at Glasgow Green to commemorate the demise of the Glasgow Corporation, and its replacement by the City of Glasgow District Council, in 1975.

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#glasgow #glasgowcorporation #glasgowhistory #plaque #glasgowgreen #municipalsocialism

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

Compulsory Team-building Weekend.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

It was indeed. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 23h

Designed by C.J.McNair in an Art Deco style and built in 1939, the Ascot was considered a super-cinema as it had a capacity of 1,963 people. It closed as a cinema in 1975 and only the facade now remains.

#glasgow #architecture #artdeco #glasgowbuilding #cinema #cinemacity #architecturephotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 23h

The former Ascot Cinema (renamed in Gaumont in 1950), Anniesland, Glasgow. This is one of Glasgow's lost neighbourhood cinemas. There used to be so many of these local cinemas in Glasgow in the 1930s that it was nicknamed Cinema City.

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#glasgow #architecture #artdeco #cinema

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

The area at the centre was thicker and had ripples in it, and this created the bullseye effect. Such glass was traditionally cheaper than flat panes.

#glasgow #architecture #glass #bullseyeglass #anniesland #glasgowbuildings #architecturephotography #window

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

This involved creating a hollow globe of glass that was then flattened and spun to give a circular sheet. The bits around the edge were the best quality and were cut to create flat panes.

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#glasgow #architecture #glass #bullseyeglass #anniesland #architecturephotography #window

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Bullseye glass panels in a close door of the 1907 Anniesland Mansions in the West of Glasgow. Bullseye glass was traditionally made using the hand-blown Crown Glass technique.

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#glasgow #architecture #glass #bullseyeglass #anniesland #glasgowbuildings #architecturephotography #window

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Crow Road Tenement. Part of Anniesland Mansions in the West of the Glasgow, there's just something timelessly elegant about buildings like this.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenements #anniesland #architecturephotography #buildingphotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

It's one of a series of windows which depict traditional Highland life and its destruction during the Highland Clearances of the late 18th Century. The bullseye glass in the window at the back is a particularly nice detail.

#glasgow #stainedglass #architecture #architecturephotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Modern stained glass in the Lismore pub in the Partick area of Glasgow.

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#glasgow #stainedglass #architecture #architecturephotography #lismore #partick #thelismore #window #stainedglasswindow

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Love this figurehead on a corbel of John Burnet Senior's 1870 Union Bank building on St Vincent Street in Glasgow. I particularly like her crown, which is reminiscent of a foliate Green Man.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #sculpture #architecturephotography

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