Love this re-use of this old tram rosette on a tenement on Victoria Road in Glasgow. Originally these would have been used to support the mechanism from which the electricity lines hung that powered the city's trams before the network was shut down in the early 1960s.

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Saint Mungo gazing out across Pollokshaws Road from Saint Ninian's Church in Glasgow, with the fish with the ring in its mouth below him, and the remains of a tram rosette (used to support electrical wires for Glasgow's tram system) just to his left. I've often wondered what people made of these being attached to churches when they were first installed at the end of the 19th Century.

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