The former Strathbungo Public School in Glasgow (now Saint Bride's Primary School). Designed by Gordon and Baird, and constructed in 1894, it's a wonderfully imposing building.

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"The White Rose and the Red Rose," Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, 1902.

Mackintosh (1864-1933) was an influential artist and designer from the Glasgow School, a subset of the Art Nouveau movement. Born into a working class family and studying art with her sister, she married Charles Mackintosh, who was to become a celebrated architect.

Her work was inspired by Celtic mythology and folklore, literature, the Bible, the Odyssey, the poems of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the works of dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck. She left no sketchbooks behind, suggesting she went fully from her imagination.

This gesso panel (a sort of soft plaster over a coarse fabric), inset with glass beads, was originally part of an interior co-designed with her husband. Called the "Rose Boudoir" it was Scotland's entry into a design exposition in Turin, in 1902. There roses were stitched into cushions, traced on the wallpaper...all over. There was another panel, "The Heart of the Rose," but interpretation of the two has defied critics, as Mackintosh never said, or left behind any notes, of the works' meaning.

From a private collection.

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Thornwood Primary School in the west of Glasgow at nightfall this evening.

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Love the stepped symmetry of the Northumberland Street facade of the former Garrioch School in Glasgow. Built in 1905, it was designed by Robert A. Brydon, and later became Shakespeare Primary School.

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The former Abbotsford Public School on the Southside of Glasgow. Opened in 1879, it was designed in at Italianate style by Hugh and David Barclay.

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The former Abbotsford Public School as seen from Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. Opened in 1879, it was designed in at Italianate style by Hugh and David Barclay. It's notable as being the first school built on the Central Hall Plan principle by the Barclays for the Glasgow School Board.

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The former Elmvale Public School (now home to Elmvale Primary) in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Designed by H.E. Clifford with Art Nouveau flourishes, when it was built in 1901, it would have been surrounded by traditional sandstone tenements, most of which were demolished in the post-war period.

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I love this 1930s version of the Glasgow Coat of Arms above the entrance to Holyrood Secondary School in Glasgow, especially how the date of construction has been added as marks on a ruler behind it! The school was designed by the firm John Burnet, Son and Dick.

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Janitor's House of the Kelbourne School on Hotspur Street in the Maryhill area of Glasgow. Built in a mix of Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne styles in 1912, it was designed by Hutton and Taylor.

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Elmvale Public School in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Designed by H.E. Clifford, it was built in 1901. It's a magnificently imposing building which still houses the local primary school to this day.

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