Good morning, Glasgow. The sun is out, the skies are blue and it's really starting to feel like Spring is really here (despite having to scrape frost off my windscreen for the school run!). This was what the surviving tower of the 1858 Park Church in the West End of the city looked like at 8:30 this morning.
Black and white tesserae edging the steps leading up to an 1850s townhouse in the Park District of Glasgow. I suspect these are a later addition as the original steps would have been sandstone, but they are still a nice design touch.
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The Italianate townhouses of Park Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson and built in the 1850s, they were part of the upmarket Park District, created as the city grew and expanded westward throughout the 19th Century.
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There is still a Houldsworth Street and Houldsworth Park, just about visible from the upper windows of this townhouse, in Anderston to this day, but it's unclear in they're named after John, or his father Henry, who was appointed the first Provost of Anderston when it was awarded burgh status in 1824.
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A French Renaissance style early Victorian townhouse on Park Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson, it was buit in 1855 as Glasgow expanded westward. It was originally occupied by John Houldsworth, a merchant and cotton-spinner. Houldsworth was also the last Provost of the burgh of Anderston before it was absorbed into Glasgow in 1846.
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The end of one of Charles Wilson's 1855 French Renaissance style terraces of townhouses in the Park District or Glasgow. I love that just as much detail as gone into the fake windows used to hide the internal chimney flues as has gone into the real windows, including the sculpted lion heads on the corbels of the first floor lintels.
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However, there are more just a few feet away, which I hadn't spotted before, that have been preserved and are still in place (bittom photo - the two lines of brown oblongs between the new tarmac and the stone setts). If you want to have a look at them yourself, they're by the steps leading down to Clifton Street.
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I posted a week or so ago about 1850s wooden cobbles which have been uncovered during road resurfacing on Woodlands Terrace in Glasgow. The top photo is one I took of them in 2023, but all these ones are now gone as they were destroyed when the old road surface was removed and the new one laid (middle photo).
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Italianate style townhouses on Park Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson, they were constructed around 1855 to overlook the then newly created Kelvingrove Park. The one on the left was originally home to an insurance broker named Thomas Dunlop Douglas while the one of the right was fieat occupied by a merchant named Thomas Richardson.
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While sections of wooden paving survive in London, I've never come across another example in Glasgow. The terrace itself was built in the 1850s, and it may well represent the original street surface in this area. Only a few of these wooden setts have survived and will soon disappear once more when the new modern road surface is laid on top of them.
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