Mary Barbour and Isabella Elder mural by Protests and Suffragettes in the Govan area of Glasgow. The quote at the top is as relevant today as it was over a century ago when these two women, each in their own way, were striving to improve the lives of those around them.
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The fountain was moved to Glasgow Green in 1881 after it was subject to acts of vandalism. The rings on either side of the stone basin were attachments for metal cups on long chains to aid those who which to drink from it. It is one of the few Victorian public drinking fountains in Glasgow not to be associated with the Temperance Movement.
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The Bonnie Wee Well on Glasgow Green. Originally sited on Gleniffer Braes in Paisley, this drinking fountain is a memorial to the poet and writer Hugh MacDonald who died in 1860. He is perhaps best remembered for his book Rambles Round Glasgow which as published in 1854 and detailed his walks in and around the city.
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The Glasgow Necropolis: Many of the architects and sculptors who created the beautiful buildings for the city of the living also created monuments for the city of the dead.
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Peddie's cottage stood next door, but was demolished in 1892 to make way for the tenement on the left of this photo. The smithy itself was converted into a pub and restaurant in the 1970s, making it the first licenced premises in Cathcart since the early 1920s when the local inhabitants voted to become a dry council ward and the licences for all five of its previous pubs expired.
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The former Cathcart smithy on Old Castle Road in Glasgow. Established some 300 years ago, it was once home to the Peddie family whose ancestors were armourers and smiths to the Cathcart family. Robert Burns is said to have once had his horse re-shoed here, and later it was occupied by Robert Peddie who ran a dog infirmary on the upper floor as well as the blacksmiths on the ground floor.
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Former Soldiers' Home on Maryhill Road in Glasgow. Designed by Malcolm Stark and Rowntree, and built opposite the Wyndford Barracks in the 1890s, it served as a respite house for soldiers and their wives. For a small fee, soldiers could rent a quiet room in this building, and newly wed ones could spend their honeymoon night there. This photo was taken a couple of years ago, and it has largely been lying empty since then.
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I've always found the cottage on the right of this image rather interesting. It's on Mitre Road, just north of Victoria Park in the west of Glasgow and it's different in style and age from all the other houses which surround it. It's built on land which was once part of High Balshagray Farm, and Mitre Road (originally known as Bishops Road) was the first road built on this farm land, somewhere around 1900.
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A mural of Isabella Elder on a junction box on Elderpark on Glasgow. Created by Protests and Suffragettes, it celebrates the life of a woman who not only created a library for local people (which you can see in the background), but who also created a park to give them a green space, opened a school for domestic economy, and funded a local cottage hospital
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Love this junction box mural in the Govan area of Glasgow celebrating the life of the Glaswegian suffragette, rent strike organiser, activist and politician Helen Crawfurd (1877 to 1954). It was created by Protests and Suffragettes in association with Impact Arts Craft Cafe and was commissioned by Yardworks.
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