When Calton gets all sort of arty

It’s kind of funny when you walk past something, then find yourself going back for a second look, just to see if you saw what you think you saw.

In this case I went wandering past what might be referred as ‘the usual’ hefalump and lion figures seen in many gardens.

Then I realised there had been something else, almost missed as I hurried past.

The first pass had looked like some sort of statue with a musical instrument.

The second pass clarified things, and it looks like some sort of lightweight figure (i.e. not a substantial statue/carving of some sort), a frame holding lighting to outline it.

Pity we’re now into the light night season, or I could hang around to catch it lit – I’ll have to try when… The nights are fair drawing in, and I might catch it lit at reasonable hour.

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Calf by Kenny Hunter and Jonathan Kemp outside the entrance to the former meat market on Graham Square, just off the Gallowgate in the East End of Glasgow.

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Saint Mary's Church on Abercromby Street in the East End of Glasgow. Designed by Goldie and Child, it was built in 1841.

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A rather beautiful, if badly neglected, polychromatic brick industrial building on Tobago Street in the East End of Glasgow. Designed by Alexander Adam, it was built in 1905 for the rag and bone merchant James Fraser.

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St Alphonsus Church on London Road in the East End of Glasgow. Built in 1905, it was designed in a Gothic style by Peter Paul Pugin of the ecclesiastical architects Pugin and Pugin.

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The 1840s McPhail's Mill on McPhail Street. This later became the Greenhead Works when it was purchased by the gutta-percha merchants R. and J. Dick in 1859. They added the Classical tenement style extension in the foreground in the 1870s. However, despite its appearance, this was not a residential block, but was part of their gutta-percha factory. It was made to look like a tenement due to its prominent position overlooking Glasgow Green.

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Love these oriel windows on a 1900 tenement on Greenhead Street in the East End of Glasgow, especially the repeating pattern they create, and the extra details above and below the second storey ones.

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The former Buchanan Institute for Destitute Children overlooking Glasgow Green in the East End of the city. Originally known as Greenhead House, it was designed in a Classical style by Charles Wilson and built in 1846 for the cotton mill owner Dugald McPhail, after whom the nearby McPhail Street is named.

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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. Created in the early 1800s, the market finally closed in the 1980s. As far as I can work out, it says No Entrance Except On Business.

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