This Is My GlasgowThe Cardell Halls and the William Pearce Statue on Govan Road in Glasgow.
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I presume they were meant to be part of a larger development which never happened, and it wasn't until the 1920s that the Glasgow Corporation built more houses around them. This was part of the corporation's development of new housing schemes in the years after World War I to increase the city's housing stock.
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Barnwell Terrace in the Drumoyne area of Glasgow. Built around 1900, these detached houses were some of the first constructed on the lands of the former Drumoyne and Langlands Houses.
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The Elder Cottage Hospital on Drumoyne Drive in Glasgow. Founded by Isabella Elder in 1902, it was designed in a Late Englsh Renaissance style by J.J. Burnet.
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Former Savings Bank on Govan Road in Glasgow. Designed by Eric A. Sutherlandn it was built in 1906. Like a number of Edwardian tenements in the city, it originally had a drying green on the roof and a washhouse in the top of the corner turret.
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The elegantly simply entrance to the former municipal buildings on Orkney Street in Glasgow. Designed by John Burnet Snr and built in 1866, it originally contained a police station and a courtroom/public hall.
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Loving the new Isabella Elder mural by Rogue One on Langlands Court close to Elder Park in Glasgow.
This looks like it could be a grand hotel somewhere in the Scottish Highlands, but it is, in fact, part of a former engineering works on Woodville Street in Ibrox area of Glasgow. It was designed by A. Hamilton and was built in the 1910s.
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Part of this sculpture marks the maiden voyage of the SS Chile, launched on Govan in 1863, between Glasgow and Valparaiso, a journey it made in 31 days and 15 hours. The SS Chile was built for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. Created in the 1840s, this was the first company to use steamships for commercial routes in the Pacific Ocean. By the 1870s, it had the largest merchant steamship fleet in the word, including the Govan-built SS Chile.
One of the seven Waymarker sculptures by Matt Baker installed on the Govan Riverside in 2012. This one, on Napier Drive, commemorates Govan's shipbuilding history, and particularly the marine engineering achievements of John Elder and his development of the compound engine which finally made steam engines more efficient than sails for ocean crossings.
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