This Is My Glasgow1d ago

I like the Hyndland Paddington's seasonal outfit. I presume he's dressed as Santa Paws. Sorry! 😀.

#glasgow #christmas #xmas #hyndland #paddington #hyndland

This Is My GlasgowNov 17

A rather gorgeous Art Nouveau style rose on a stained glass window of Hyndland tenement in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #window #stainedglass #stainedglasswindow #artnouveau #tenement #glasgowtenements #hyndland

This Is My GlasgowNov 14

James Thompson's 1858 gently curving terrace of grand Classical townhouses on Crown Circus in the west end of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #hyndland #classicalarchitecture #glasgowarchitecture #buildingphotography
#architecturephotography #dowanhill

This Is My GlasgowOct 27

Westdel (left) and Royston (right) in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow. Designed by George Washington Browne, this pair of villas was built in 1889.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #dowanhill #hyndland

This Is My GlasgowOct 26

Some rather beautiful red sandstone tenements on Beaumont Gate in the West End of Glasgow. Built in 1902, this block was designed by David Barclay, in collaboration with G.S. Kenneth. I don't know the exact internal layout of these tenements, but I presume the two columns of bay windows belong to different closes (the one on the right to the close shown in the photo and the one on the left to the neighbouring one).

#glasgow #architecture #hyndland #dowanhill #tenement #architecturephotography

This Is My GlasgowOct 24

A blonde sandstone Victorian tenement on the corner of Partickhill Road and Gardner Street in the West End of Glasgow. Built in the 1880s, this block was originally known as Edelweiss Terrace, and you can still see a ghost sign bearing this name on its facade.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #partick #partickhill #hyndland

This Is My GlasgowOct 24

Hyndland Road tenements in the West End of Glasgow.

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This Is My GlasgowOct 14

Hyndland Road tenements in the West End of Glasgow.

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This Is My GlasgowOct 11

Red sandstone tenements on the corner of Clarence Drive and Hyndland Road in the West End of Glasgow.

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This Is My GlasgowOct 9

Tonight's sunset over the tenements of Clarence Drive in the Hyndland area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #sunset #glasgowsunset #tenement #glasgowtenements #hyndland #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowatnight #nightphotography

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This Is My GlasgowNov 17

A rather gorgeous Art Nouveau style rose on a stained glass window of Hyndland tenement in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #window #stainedglass #stainedglasswindow #artnouveau #tenement #glasgowtenements #hyndland

Show threadPoloniousmonkNov 17

@thisismyglasgow

That's a tenement in Glasgow? Jeebus your poor people do well.

Show threadThis Is My GlasgowNov 17
@Uair In Glasgow, tenements weren't just for poor people, they were for all levels of society. These ones would have been built for professionals, and they're not even close to being the poshest ones in the city!
Show threadPoloniousmonkNov 17

@thisismyglasgow

Ahhh. "Tenement" in American English means government housing for the poorest among us.

All the identical buildings in the main pic here are government housing. I knew a guy who grew up in one. He had to navigate over 30 flights of stairs to go in or out because thugs occupied the elevator and robbed anyone trying to use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island

Coney Island - Wikipedia

Show threadUrban CameraNov 17

@thisismyglasgow @Uair

Tell them about the estates and slum areas, which were still used in the Eighties. The poorest of the poor, one cramped room, shared metal bathtub, damp walls.....

Show threadPoloniousmonkNov 17

@uc @thisismyglasgow

I think I've seen fiction set in it. Trainspotting?

Show threadThis Is My GlasgowNov 17
@Uair @uc Believe it or not, I've been in tenements in Glasgow in the last decade that made the flats in Trainspotting look like a very pleasant place to live!
Show threadUrban CameraNov 17

@thisismyglasgow @Uair

The Gorbals.

thegorbals.co.uk

Show threadThis Is My GlasgowNov 17
@uc @Uair Well, yes, there were tenements like that, too. 👍🙂
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKNov 17

@Uair @thisismyglasgow

The term tenement in Scotland is nowadays what we call a block of flats in England (just like any similar apartment) and no longer implies the building is of poor quality for low income dwellers..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenement

Tenement - Wikipedia

Show threadThis Is My GlasgowNov 17
@vfrmedia @Uair Tenements stopped just being poor people in Glasgow around the late 1800s. Just look at the ones on Queen's Drive, or at Charing Cross Mansions (where they had room for servants and all modern conveniences).
Show threadChrysalisNov 17
@thisismyglasgow @vfrmedia @Uair In my job I came across the full range from poorest to the most expensive in Glasgow. From “single ends” (basically one room, maybe a scullery, and shared use of a toilet on the same or upper landing), to very large flats with maid’s room off the kitchen/scullery, with butler’s pantry off the flat’s hall. For example in one long street, Dowanhill Street- poorest at the bottom in Partick to by far the best at the top in Dowanhill.
Show threadPoloniousmonkNov 17

@chrysalis @thisismyglasgow @vfrmedia

The UK has always been a lot more open about class stratification. In America, we have to pretend it doesn't exist.