This Is My GlasgowNewly emerged leaves on the Argyle Street Ash Tree in the West End of Glasgow lit by the early morning sun. It's always a bit of a relief to see this tree burst back into life, signalling it's safely made it through yet another winter.
This building on Argyle Street in Glasgow caught my attention recently when I was photographing the former St Enoch Picture House (just to its left). Its top floor has an attractive Art Deco feel to it, a feature that seems to have been added in the 1930s, after the neighbouring Picture House closed. However, I've not been able to track down much information about it beyond this, and the fact this location was once home to the Angus Restaurant.
In the 1890s, this became the wonderfully named Crouch's Wonderland and it showed its first film in 1897, just a year after the first movie was shown in Glasgow at Arthur Hubner’s Real Ice Skating Palace on Sauchiehall Street (which would later become the much missed ABC cinema). Once the St Enoch Picture House closed in the 1930s, it found its third lease of life as a shop, which is remains to this day.
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The surviving facade of the St Enoch Picture House on Argyle Street in Glasgow. Its life as a cimena lasted between when it opened in 1913, and closed in 1935. However, before that it was a musical hall called Crouch's Theatre of Varieties, which opened in 1881.
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The imposing facade of the Free Classical style 1903 Stewart and McDonald warehouse on Argyle Street in central Glasgow, featuring a large pair of atlantes at the bottom, and a sculpted narrative tympanum at the top. This consists of a mix of figures and animals, including a bull on the left hand side of the central oculus and an elephant on its right.
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Love this louvered tower and dormer windows combination on the original Catherone Cranston Tearoom on Argyle Street in Glasgow. Built as a tenement in the 18th century, this tower would have been part of the alterations made for Cranston by David Barclay in 1898.
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The former Burton's Menswear Store on Argyle Street in Glasgow. It was designed by Wilson and was built in 1929.
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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
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Having been voted the UK Tree of the Year in 2025, the Argyle Street Ash Tree in Glasgow is now in the running to be voted European Tree of the Year for 2026. Again, this is a public vote, so if you're a fan of this tree, please make your voice heard at https://www.treeoftheyear.org/vote/argyle-street-ash.
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The toll house, gate and weigh station at Sandyford seem to have been demolished just prior to this in the late 1850s, to be replaced in the 1860s by the tenement buildings you can see in the foreground of the top image.
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