Number 6 Claremont Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John Baird in a Classical style, it was originally built in 1842 as a freestanding mansion before being converted into a terrace in 1847.
Between 1869 and 1906, it was the home of the philanthropist Isabella Elder who funded many causes around the city, but particularly those related to education, especially of women.
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The derelict remnants of Fairfield Farm Cottage in the Govan area of Glasgow. The farm was purchased by Isabella Elder in the 1880s and turned into Elder Park for the people of Govan. The cottage, which dates from the early 19th Century, was originally used as an amenity for the park. One of the few former farm buildings left in Glasgow, it's B-Listed, but now lies abandoned, fenced off and decaying.
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Mary Barbour and Isabella Elder mural by Protests and Suffragettes in the Govan area of Glasgow. The quote at the top is as relevant today as it was over a century ago when these two women, each in their own way, were striving to improve the lives of those around them.
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A mural of Isabella Elder on a junction box on Elderpark on Glasgow. Created by Protests and Suffragettes, it celebrates the life of a woman who not only created a library for local people (which you can see in the background), but who also created a park to give them a green space, opened a school for domestic economy, and funded a local cottage hospital
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I love the shape of the entrance to the former Elder Cottage Hospital on Drumoyne Drive in Glasgow. Founded by Isabella Elder in 1902, it was designed in a Late Englsh Renaissance style by J.J. Burnet.
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The Elder Cottage Hospital on Drumoyne Drive in Linthouse area of Glasgow. Founded by Isabella Elder in 1902, it was designed in a Late Englsh Renaissance style by J.J. Burnet.
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This poster marking the lives of two of Govan's most notable citizens seems very apt in the current circumstances.
It seems that despite the decades between their lives then and our lives now, we are still faced with the same issues of wealth inequality and the problems it creates.
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