The entrance facade in the Necropolis, Glasgow's grand Victorian cemetery. Designed by John Bryce, this facade was built in the 1830s.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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The former National Bank of Scotland building on the corner of Trongate and Glassford Street in Glasgow. Built in 1903, it was designed by Thomas P. Marwick in a Renaissance style.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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This is the grave of James Jeffray, the one-time Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow University. Jeffray had the type of life that if you wrote it in a novel, it would be dismissed as being too bizarre to be believable.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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What I presume is a surviving part of the old Crossmyloof Bakery behind the Camphill Gate tenements on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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This is quite a contrast to how we expect business owners to act today.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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This is a bit of a shame, as Jeffray's real achievements and antics are bizarre enough without the need to embellish them quite so much, but then again maybe that's why he has become the subject of such a wild and horrifying tale worthy of Halloween itself.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Provost's lamp post on Kingsley Avenue on the Southeside of Glasgow. Such lamp posts were (and still are) used to mark the home where the city's Lord Provost resides.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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It has been adopted by a local resident who has done a great job of cleaning and repainting it, and replacing the missing lamp on the top.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The remains of the original Queen Margaret Bridge over the River Kelvin in Glasgow. This cast iron bridge was built in 1870 by John Ewing Walker to provide access to the new neighbourhood of Kelvinside which he was developing.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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It was replaced by the new Queen Margaret Bridge (on what is now Queen Margaret Drive) in the 1920s and much of it was demolished in the 1970s, leaving just the stone piers on which it rested.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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This faded plaque can be found in the Hidden Lane in the West End of Glasgow. Barely legible, only the the words This Wall and the date 1830 are relatively clear, along with what seems to be the first name of James.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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If this is the case, it s33ms likely that the name on it is that of James Roberston, its occupant at the time, and possibly its original owner. However, with only an incomplete inscription to go on, we might never know for certain.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Today at the measuring pond of Craigmaddie Reservoir on the outskirts of Glasgow. Opened in 1896, it expanded the capacity of the original water works, which were built in the 1850s.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The former Lancefield Quay Ferry Port on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow. Due to the need to allow ships to pass up and down the Clyde, rather than bridges, the Clyde was once criss-crossed by a fleet of small ferries.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Steps like these allowed access to pedestrian ferries, while vehicle ferries used the neighbouring adjustable ramps. You can just make out the remains of the opposing ferry port of the far side of the Clyde in this shot.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Art Deco style mosaic on the former British Polar Engines Works on Helen Street on the Southside of Glasgow.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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A ghost sign on the Melbourne Street entrance to the former Glasgow meat and cattle market in the East End of the city. As far as I can work out, it says No Entrance Except On Business.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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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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October 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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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October 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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.
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October 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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The Suffrage Oak on a junction box on Derby Street in the west of Glasgow.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The remains of a Victorian summer house in Queen's Park in Glasgow. This was once part of the Camphill House estate. Camphill House itself, built around 1798 for the cotton manufacturer Robert Thomson, still stands in the park to this day.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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250 Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow. Designed in a Classical style by James Thomson, it was built in 1882. It started life as Maclean's Hotel, before becoming the Windsor Hotel in 1890.
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September 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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A photo from last winter of the Pollokshaws Toll House. Built around 1820 at a major crossroads, this was one of many former tolls around Glasgow, remembered in place names, but few of the actual toll houses survive.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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He was a keen football player and helped found the legendary 3rd Lanark Athletics Club in 1872, named after the volunteer regiment from which its members originally came. As the team's striker, Bennie scored their first ever goal.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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