Rockvilla House by the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow. Built around 1790, it was the canal manager's house at the time when the nearby Applecross Basin marked the end of the Glasgow spur of the canal. The neighbouring buildings served as workshops for the canal company, and as the base for a coach service ferrying people between the city centre and the end of the canal.
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Glasgow Corporation Electricity Department box embedded in the retaining wall of the now-lost Rockvilla School. One of many reminders that utilities, such as gas and electricity, used to be run for the benefit of the city and not to provide an income for distant shareholders.
Rockvilla House at the Applecross Canal Basin in the north of Glasgow. Originally, this was the end of the Forth and Clyde canal and the building served as a base for a coach service into Glasgow. From 1790 onwards it served as a house for the lock keeper/canal manager.
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The former North Fire Station on Saint George's Road in Glasgow.
Built in 1889, this fire station had space on the ground floor for a steam-powered fire engine and a manual fire engine. Unusually for the time, it doesn't seem to have had space for horse-drawn fire engines (or stabling for horses themselves).
It finally closed in 1984.
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Hidden amongst the foliage growing out of the still-standing (and B-Listed) entrance to the former Rockvilla Public School on Possil Road in Glasgow is this beautiful little animal sculpture. It's one of a pair surrounding the inscription of the school's name, and I think it's most likely a dragon which has, at some point, lost its wings.
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You can see what the school originally looked like here: https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA02501.
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The tunnel-like boys entrance to the former Rockvilla Public School on Dawson Road in Glasgow.
This school was designed by John Honeyman and was built in the 1870s. An impressive building set high on a hill overlooking the Forth and Clyde Canal, the B Listed building was badly damaged by fire in 1995 and was demolished in 1996.
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