1850s Classical style tenement designed by Alexander Kirkland on St Vincent Crescent in Glasgow. In most buildings from this time, the window design gets smaller and simpler with each additional storey. In these tenements, it's the opposite way round, with the smallest windows on the ground floor and the most detailed ones on the top floor (with a lovely little flare at their base).
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The North Rotunda in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. Designed by Simpson and Wison and built in the 1890s, it contained a mechanical lift to raise and lower vehicles the 72 feet between the surface and the entrance to the Glasgow Harbour Tunnels under the Clyde. Pedestrians not only had their own access via a staircase, they also had their own tunnel.
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Some beautiful decorative tiles at the entrance to a tenement close on Argyle Street in the West End of Glasgow.
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Maybe I'm just parsing it the wrong way, but could you get away with this restaurant name anywhere other Glasgow? And it's in the fashionable area of Finnieston, too!
An 1850s gushet tenement on the corner of Argyle Street and Kent Road in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. The small mural is of the legendary Glaswegian sit-com character Rab C. Nesbitt, and reflects the fact that when the pub on the ground floor was known as Two Ways in the 1990s, its exterior was used for Rab's local in this programme, despite the fact it was set on the other side of the Clyde in Govan.
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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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Turnpikes were first established in Scotland in the 18th century, and they allowed land owners to apply for an act of parliament to allow them to erect gates where tolls could be collected to pay for road maintainence and improvements. They continued until they were abolished by the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act of 1878.
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Argyle Street in the west of Glasgow at its junction with Kelvinhaugh Street. It's currently lined with tenements constructed in the 1850s and 1860s. However, prior to this, as these maps from 1857 show, it was the site of the Sandyford Toll Plaza, consisting of toll house, gate and weigh station. It was here that taxes would have been paid before entering the city and/or payments made for use of the turnpike heading west.
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1850s Classical style blonde sandstone tenement on the corner of Kelvingrove Street and Argyle Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow.
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Good morning, Glasgow. The city is waking up and getting ready for the day, with the light from businesses on ground floors of the city's tenements, like this cafe on Argyle Street, spilling out onto the surrounding pavements and bringing life to the otherwise rather dark early morning streets.
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