This Is My GlasgowLove this dragon-like creature, which seems to havr one head and two bodies, on the intricately sculpted entrance of the former Strathbungo Parish Church on Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow. Designed by J. MacKissack, it was built in 1886.
The impressive curving facade of Salisbury Quadrant on Nithsdale Drive in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow looking wonderful in yesterday's late eveing sun. Designed in the imposing Classical style of Thomson and Turnbull, it was built around 1880.
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The stylish and instantly-recogniseable lotus-shaped chimney pots on Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's 1859 Moray Place in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow.
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The former Strathbungo Public School in Glasgow (now Saint Bride's Primary School). Designed by Gordon and Baird, and constructed in 1894, it's a wonderfully imposing building.
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The end wall of 1 Moray Place in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. Built in 1859, it was designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson as part of a terrace of Classical Townhouses. Thomson himself lived here with his family between 1861 and his death in 1875.
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The beautifully proportioned, and beautifully restored, former Mission Hall on Nithsdale Drive in Glasgow. Built in 1887 and designed by Alexander Skirving, it's strongly influenced by Skirving's former mentor Alexander 'Greek' Thomson.
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After Strathbungo and its neighbouring areas were annexed by the city in 1891, this police station was closed and a new one, bearing the city's coat of arms, was buit in a similar style on Craigie Street in Govanhill.
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The 1860s former Strathbungo Police Station on March Street on the Southside of Glasgow. The monogram on the crow-stepped gable (RCC) stands for the Renfrew County Constabulary, and indicates it was built before the area was absorbed into the city of Glasgow.
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The open crown spire of the former Strathbungo Parish Church rising above the tenements of Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow. Built in 1886, it was designed by J. MacKissack.
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This rather wonderful carving from the entrance of the former Strathbungo Parish Church in Glasgow is of ... erm ... well I'm really not too sure what it's of, but it's certainly interesting!
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