The Lion and Unicorn Staircase on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus. Dating from 1690, this staircase was originally part of the Old College campus on High Street in the centre of the city.

When the university moved to its current campus towards the end of the 19th Century, this staircase was one of the few parts that was moved with it, rather than being demolished to make way for a railway yards (as the rest of the Old College was).

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Love this figurative corbel by Archibald Dawson on the west range of the main buildings of Glasgow University. It consists an angel carrying a sword and a shield with a set of scales on it, and is possibly a representation of St Michael.

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The Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, designed by J.J. Burnet and built in the 1920s, as seen through one of the arches of the cloisters (which are really an undercroft, but that's for another post!).

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“A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings.”

Shipyard union leader James Reid was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow in 1971. He gave his rectorial address #OTD, 28 April, 1972. The New York Times reprinted it, & called it the greatest political speech since the Gettysburg Address. Read it online at

https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_167194_smxx.pdf

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Sunset in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow.

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Glasgow University this evening, rising above the trees of Kelvingrove Park, which are just coming into leaf.

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This evening looking from Yorkhill towards the main buildings of Glasgow University.

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Kelvingrove Park in today's Spring sunshine, with Glasgow University in the distance.

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Glasgow's architecture looking gorgeous in yesterday's spring sunshine. These buildings on University Gardens in the West End of the city were designed by a number of architects, including Robert Ewan, John James Burnet and Campbell Douglas and Paterson, and were constructed between 1882 and 1905.

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