One of the sandstone villas on Merryland Street in the Govan area of Glasgow which became part of the Montrose Maternity Hospital in the 1930s. It's a very stylish building, but I've been able to find out relatively little about it's history prior to it being converted into a hospital.
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Part of the Summertown Road facade of the former Govan Town Hall in Glasgow. Designed by Thomson and Sandilands in a Beaux Arts style, it was built in 1897.
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The former Montrose Maternity Hospital on Merryland Street in the Govan area of Glasgow. Created by linking together a series of neighbouring villas, it was established in the early 1930s as a private maternity hospital. It closed in 1946, and re-opened in 1949 as the St Francis Maternity Home, run by the Franciscan Sisters Minoress who were founded London in the 1880s and who had established a convent on Merryland Street in 1946.
Sculptures on the front of the former Govan Press building on Govan Road in Glasgow. These are: Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable type printing to Europe; Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet; Mr and Mrs Cossar, who ran the Govan Press; Walter Scott, one of Scotland's first novelists; William Caxton, who introduced the printing press to Britain.
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The former Govan Town Hall rising above part of the former Prince's Dock on the southern side of the Clyde in Glasgow. The dock was closed in the 1970s, but it was then re-used as part of the Glasgow Garden Festival site in 1988, which stimulated the regeneration of much of it. However, this section remains unutilised.
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Love this painted bollard on Shaw Street in the Govan area of Glasgow. It's just a quirky bit of fun and it adds a splash of colour to the street.
A plaque commemorating the life of the Scottish social reform campaigner and political activist Mary Barbour, who was born in Kilbarchan on this day in 1875, on a Hutton Drive tenement in the Linthouse area of Glasgow.
If anyone ever tells you that one person can't make a difference, ask them if they know about Mary Barbour.
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Corner tenement at the junction between Langlands Road and Harmony Row near Govan Cross. This part of Glasgow has become a template for how modern ground floor shop fronts can be adapted to bring them more in line with the traditional architecture above them and by doing so help create a much more integrated and united streetscape. It would be great to see similar programmes rolled out across the city.
This Is My Glasgow
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