The Jacobean Corsetry building on Virginia Street in Glasgow. Originally built in the late 18th century, this tenement is one of the Virginia Buildings, which were at the heart of the city's tobacco trade. This trade was controlled by Glasgow's Tobacco Lords who made their fortunes trading produce from the slave plantations of the British colonies in North America and the West Indies.

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The Tolbooth Steeple at Glasgow Cross. Dating from 1634, it's all that remains of the original Tolbooth building, most of which was demolished in 1921.

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Love this little dragon on Robertson and Dobbie's 1908 Glasgow Style warehouse on the corner of Glassford Street and Wilson Street in Glasgow.

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Glasgow's newest, and biggest, mural in the Merchant City. Created by Smug, it's titles Make Time For What Matters, it celebrates the stories, spirit and shared heritage of the local community.

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I love this little window canted out over the corner where Ingram Street meets Brunswick Street. This is the older of the two former J. and W. Campbell warehouses in the Merchant City, and it was built in the 1850s.

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Two of the pavement etchings by Kate Robinson outside of the Ramshorn in the Merchant city in Glasgow. The skeleton not only refers to Glasgow's links to slavery, but also to the nearby cemetery, and the reserection men who stole bodies from it to sell for anatomical research.

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The Cochrane Street facade of the former John Street United Presbyterian Church in the Merchant City area of Glasgow. Designed in an Italianate Palazzo style by J.T. Rochead, it was built in 1859

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Saint David's Parish Church in the Merchant City area of Glasgow. More commonly known as the Ramshorn Kirk, it was built in 1824 by architect Thomas Rickman in the Gothic Revival style.

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