The rather wonderful Glasgow Style railings around the 1908 former Holmlea Public School on the southside of Glasgow. This is an old photo, but I thought it was worth reposting as a follow-up to my other recent posts featuring Holmlea Public School.
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Decorative Victorian railings on Park Terrace in the West End of Glasgow.
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This is an interesting comparison between Victorian railings which have been stripped of the many layers of paint which once covered them, and the neighbouring ones where it hasn't. It's amazing how much of the crisp, fine detail is hidden by more than a century's built-up of thick paint. This is on Queen's Drive on the Southside of Glasgow.
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Whatever the reason, and regardless of what happened to them, these wartime efforts dramatically changes the streetscape of Glasgow, and many other parts of the UK, forever.
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The idea of recycling of architectural ironwork for the war effort actually began Germany in 1938, and was started in the UK in 1940. In 1941, Glasgow was amongst the first British cities to launch a large scale programme of removing decorative ironwork, and any not deemed to be of historic importance (i.e. made after 1850) and not needed for safety reasons were considered fair game.
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If you keep an eye out while travelling around Glasgow, you'll see many low walls lined with metal stumps like this one outside a church in Pollokshields. Most of these are all that remains of decorative railings removed during World War II. As many such railings were made of wrought, rather than cast, iron, they were relatively easy to recycle into new iron objects.
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Love the flower detail on these Victorian cast-iron railings on Hillhead Street in the West End of Glasgow.
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Love this simple, but amusing, bit street art. It's on the Queen Margaret Drive railings for the Botanic Gardens in Glaagow, and I think it's by A Sign of Humour.
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