I mentioned this building in an earlier post today. Now situated next to Queen's Park and known as Langside Halls, it started life as Glasgow's first branch of the National Bank of Scotland on the Queen Street in the centre of the city. Designed by John Gibbon, and constructed in the late 1840s, it was decontructed in 1901 to make way for a new building, and was then reconstructed several miles away across the city.

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Father Clyde on a keystone above the Glasgow Coat of Arms on John Gibson's 1840s National Bank of Scotland Building (which is now Langside Halls).

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The personifications of five great British rivers created by John Thomas in 1847 for the building now known as Langside Halls in Glasgow. The Clyde is in the middle (crowned by two fish with rings in their mouths), while the other rivers represented are thought to be the Thames, the Severn, the Tweed and the Humber.

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Built 1847 in the Italian Renaissance style, this impressive edifice started its life as the first National Bank of Scotland in Glasgow City Centre. Around 1900, it was moved stone by stone across the city and rebuilt in Langside where it began its second life as Langside Halls.

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Absolutely love these heads on Langside Halls in Glasgow, scuplted by John Thomas in the mid-1800s. They represent the spirits of four of the great rivers of Britain (the Clyde, the Thames, the Tweed and the Humber). There is also a fifth one representing the Severn, which is not included here.

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