This Is My GlasgowA Kelvinside brick found beside the River Kelvin in Glasgow. It was produced by the Kelvibside Brick Company at the Dawsholm Brickworks in Kelvindale which was in operation between the 1870s and 1930. The brickworks were situated just off what is now Cleveden road (but was then Crossloan Road) at its junction with Burlington Avenue. After the brickworks closed, this area first became the Western Hockey Club grounds and then, by the end of 1930s, housing.
Craigmount on Cleveden Road in the west of Glasgow. Constructed in the 1880s, it was designed by John Gordon in a Dutch Renaissance style.
Craigmount was built for Gibson Smith of the George Smith and Co. Foundry. Also known as the Sun Foundry, this was one of the great Glasgow architectural and decorative ironwork foundries and they rivalled the better known Saracen Foundry for the quality of their work.
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A v-shaped weir on the River Kelvin in Glasgow. This was part of the Kelvindale Paper mill, which operated between the mid-1700s and the 1970s. Just visible further upstream are the piers of an abandoned railway bridge and the 1790s Kelvin Aqueduct which carries the Forth and Clyde Canal across the Kelvin Valley.
The rear elevation of a 19th Century villa on Celeveden Drive in the Kelvindale area of Glasgow.
A section of abandoned railway bridge running alongside the River Kelvin at Kelvindale in Glasgow. This was part of the line which ran between Anniesland, Maryhill and Glasgow City Centre via the Botanic Gardens, Kelvinbridge and under Kelvingrove Park.
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Kelvinside House on Beaconsfield Road in the west of Glasgow. Built in 1874, with additional by James Thomson in 1894, it was originally known as Beaconsfield. It was built for James B. Fleming, who was instrumental in developing the local area in the latter half of the Victorian era. I particularly like the little attic dormer window tucked in between two chimney stacks on the left hand side of the facade.
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Pre-1900 polychromatic brick buildings on Kelvindale Road in Glasgow. These were built for the nearby Kelvindale Paper Mill. The larger ones in the foreground were for managers, while the terraced cottages in the background were for ordinary workers.
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A pre-1900 polychromatic brick house on Kelvindale Road in Glasgow. It was probably built for a more senior staff member at the nearby (and long-gone) Kelvindale Paper Mill.
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Another shot of one of the frogs I came across today in the Forth and Clyde Canal in the Kelvindale area of Glasgow.
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Old coach houses, with servants quarters above them, behind the 1880s townhouses on Cleveden Road in Glasgow. The two parallel tracks are stoneways made from granite slabs designed to allow coach wheels to travel more smoothly along the otherwise cobbled lane.
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