The former Shettleston Cooperative Society Building on Pettigrew Street in Glasgow. Built in 1912, this is a gorgeous little building which is now home to the Shettleston Housing Association.
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The former employment exchange on Shettleston Road in Glasgow. Built by the Office of Public Works in 1930 in a stripped back classical style.
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Constructed as a Free Church in 1895, it was designed in a Gothic style by W.F MacGibbon with a front based on the 13th Century Dumblane Cathedral.
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It's been rather degraded over time, but there's just enough left of this carving on a spandrel of Shettleston Old Parish Church in Glasgow to see how beautiful it would originally have been. In particular, the snarling head of the creature emerging from the curls of foliage is still clearly visible at the very top.
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A rather wonderful ship-shaped weather vane on the top of the hall of the Shettleston Old Parish Church Hall on Killin Street in the East End of Glasgow. The hall was designed by W.F. MacGibbon, and was built around 1900.
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The entrance to Eastbank Parish Church (now the Shettleston New Church) in the Shettleston area of Glasgow. Built around 1900, this church was designed by W.G. Rowan in a distinctive Late Gothic style, but with Art Nouveau flourishes around the main doorway.
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Much of the former farm is now occupied by St Paul's Primary School and the surrounding modern houses, but its name remains, as do some of some of early 19th century farm buildings.
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In this case, it's Egypt Farm, also known as little Egypt, on Dalness Street in the East End of Glasgow. It supposedly got its rather unusual name from a soldier who served with the British army in Egypt during the Napoleonic era. The surrounding area was incorporated into the city of Glasgow in 1912, but the farm continued on as a dairy farm until at least the 1940s.
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Much of the land which now forms Glasgow was, not that long ago, countryside. As the city expanded relentlessly outwards during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it swallowed up countless country mansions and farms alike, however traces of many of these remain in the names of buildings, parks, streets and neighbourhoods.
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The Church of Saint Paul on Shettleston Road in Glasgow. Created by the legendary Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, and constructed in 1958, it's a stunning example of modern church design. The central sculpture of Christ on the Cross was created by Jack Mortimer.
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