This Is My Glasgow
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'This Is My Glasgow' is a photographic project from Colin M. Drysdale, author of 'Glasgow Uncovered: 18 Walks Through its Past, Present.' All images are my own.
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined September 2020
Until today, I hadn't realised that Middle Earth could be reached via Speirs Wharf on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow!. #glasgow #glasgowtoday #keepglasgowweird #middleearth #tolkein #lordoftherings #speirswharf #portdundas #sign
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For those of you who've followed me for a while, it'll be no surprise that this is one of the subjects I've chosen for my first venture into producing prints! 😀. #glasgow #glasgowphotography #architecture #architecturephotography #photography.
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I'll be selling prints of some of my photos from around Glasgow at the Byres Road Market in Hillhead Library this Saturday (11am until 4pm), including this one featuring a collection of my favourite Glasgow gushet buildings. Cont /. #glasgow #glasgowphotography #architecture
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The park was lost when the M8 motorway was built in the 1970s. #glasgow #maryhill #murals #glasgowhistory #glasgowmurals #streetart #phoenix #phoenixpark.
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It later moved to Garscube Road near the Central Hall, where the specialised in making ornamental ironwork. The original site of the foundry became the Phoenix Park in 1891, with the aim of providing a recreational space for the people lving in Cowcaddens. Cont./. #glasgow.
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A Phoenix rising drom the flames on the side of Maryhill Community Central Hall in Glasgow. This mural commemorates the Phoenix Ironworks, which was established at 52 Queen Street by Thomas Edington in 1797. Cont./. #glasgow #maryhill #murals #glasgowhistory #glasgowmurals
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I love this keystone sculpture above one of the entrances to the former meat and cattle market on Graham Square in Glasgow. The market was originally designed by John Carrick and built in the 1860s and 70s. #glasgow #architecture #gallowgate #sculpture #architecturephotography
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The imposing Classical style Virginia Street facade of Alexander Skirving's 1889 Scottish Legal Life Assurance Society building in central Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #merchantcity #glasgowbuildings
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Love the tower topped by a candle-snuffer roof on this 1860s blonde samdstone townhouse on Wilton Street in Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #townhouse #victorianarchitecture
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Sculpted figures believed to be of the builder Hugh Wilson (left) and the architect William M. Whyte (right) on an 1886 tenement building they constructed together on Queen's Drive overlooking Queen's Park in Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #queenspark #architecturephotography
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1770s tenement building on Gallowgate in the East End of Glasgow. This building is amongst the oldest surviving tenements in the city. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #gallowgate
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This bit of graffiti is definitely one for the 'Keep Glasgow Weird' file. It's in Queen's Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Any thoughts anyone?. #glasgow #graffiti #keepglasgowweird #queenspark #befriendaglaswegain
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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. #glasgow #railings #queenspark #victorianrailings #railingresoration #ironwork #ironrailings #architecture.
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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. Cont./. #glasgow #railings #queenspark #victorianrailings #railingresoration #ironwork
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The central door leads to the communal stairwell leading to the flats on the upper storeys, while the ones on either side are individual entrances to the two ground floor flats. #glasgow #queenspark #queensdrive #architecture #architecturephotography #flowers #summer.
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Love the floral display on these steps leading up to a Victorian tenement building on Queen's Drive on the Southside of Glasgow. Cont./. #glasgow #queenspark #queensdrive #architecture #architecturephotography #flowers #summer
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The former Cook and Sons Saw Manufacturers Building on Elliot Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow. Built in the 1870s using polychromatic brickwork, it's a prime example of Glasgow's mid-Victorian industrial architecture. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography
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If you're around #Glasgow this Saturday, I'll have a stall at the Byres Road Market in Hillhead Library (11am until 4pm). I'll have copies of Glasgow Uncovered for sale as well as a range of greetings cards and prints featuring some of my photos of Glasgow's architecture.
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Created in 1903, it's one of a pair of figures on either side of the building's central gable (the other being Justice). I love the impressive moustache on this statue. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #statue #sculpture.
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Law by Richard Ferris on the former Glasgow District Court building on Turnbull Street in the East End of Glasgow. Cont./. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #statue #sculpture
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