This Is My GlasgowNov 28

A classic example of a red sandstone corner tenement at the junction of Haggs Road and Pollokshaws Road on the southside of Glasgow. It was built in 1901.

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This Is My GlasgowNov 25

Corner tenement at the junction of Albert Road and Cathcart Road in the Crosshill area of Glasgow.

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This Is My GlasgowNov 24

Kelvinhaugh tenements just off Argyle Street in the west of Glasgow.

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This Is My GlasgowNov 18

Part of a decorative tiling panel at the entrance to a ground floor shop in a block of tenements on Queen Margaret Drive in Glasgow.

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Show threadThis Is My GlasgowNov 10

As a result, their designs ranged from the simple to the ornate, and the flats they contained from tiny singlends (a single room consisting of a cooking area, living space and bed recess, but no bathroom or indoor toilet) to palatial apartments, with massive rooms fitted with all the mod-cons, hallways big enough to play cricket in, and even space for a servant or two.

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This Is My GlasgowNov 10

Red sandstone tenement in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. Outside of the city, the phrase 'Glasgow tenement' is often seen as synonymous with over-crowded pre-war slum housing but the reality was that tenements were (and still are) home to all levels of Glasgow society.

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This Is My GlasgowNov 4

Love these Classical details on Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's mid-1870s tenement building on Allison Street in the Govanhill area of Glasgow.

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This Is My GlasgowOct 18

1860s blonde sandstone tenement on Argyle Street in Finnieston, Glasgow. I like the painted signs on the ground floor shop fronts on this building, especially Pearl the gold leaf shell oyster lady.

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This Is My GlasgowOct 16

A rather wonderful 1900 red sandstone gushet tenement on the corner of Arcadia Street and Greenhead Street in the East End of Glasgow.

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This Is My GlasgowOct 14

Traditional sandstone tenements climbing Thornwood Avenue in the west of Glasgow.

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