The upper floor and pediment were rebuilt when it was refurbished in the 1980s and turned into a pub called Babbity Bowster. Still occupying the site to this day, it's named after a Scottish Country Dance traditionally performed at the end of a ball.
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18 Blackfriars Street in Glasgow. Originally constructed in 1790 as a Neo-Classical merchant's house, this is one of Glasgow's surprising number of surviving Georgian mansions. However, by the 1970s, when it was being used as a banana-ripening warehouse by the fruit merchant's Gilbert Walker and Co, it was a shadow of its former self and had lost its top floor and pediment.
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The sign for The Aragon in the West End of Glasgow. Despite the appearance of this sign, it only opened in 1970, making it one of the newer pubs on Byres Road. Before that, it was a Butcher's Shop.
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Tenement over the Three Judges at Partick Cross in Glasgow.
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The sign for The Aragon in the West End of Glasgow. Despite the appearance of this sign, it only opened in 1970, making it one of the newer pubs on Byres Road. Before that, it was a Butcher's Shop.
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This sunny Sunday evening at Partick Cross in Glasgow.
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Tenement over the Three Judges at Partick Cross in Glasgow.
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Partially demolished tenement in Shettleston Road in Glasgow.
I'm always a little surprised at how often when tenements were being cleared in the 1960s and 1970s, the upper-floor flats would be taken down, but the pub on the ground floor would be left intact.
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42 Jamaica Street, Glasgow. This building was designed by George Bell in a Free Classical Slstyle and was constructed in 1897. It was built for the wine and spirit merchant Philip MacSorley and always had a pub on the ground floor. When it opened, the pub featured a snack and oyster bar, electric lights and toilets said to be the most up-to-date in the city!
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