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Sunset over three Glasgow shipyards as seen from the Riverside Museum.

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March 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I love how this mid-Victorian church on Tharsis Street in the east of Glasgow is set into the slope of Garngad Hill.

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September 30, 2026 at 12:29 PM
A sculpture of three merchants set into an internal wall of the 1870s Merchants' House on George Square in Glasgow.

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September 21, 2026 at 8:49 AM
The Customs House at the entrance to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Bowling.

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June 28, 2026 at 12:07 PM
The rear facade of an 18th Century tenement on Morrison's Court in central Glasgow.

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March 20, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The Central Station viaduct over Argyle Street in central Glasgow. Designed by the architect James Miller and the engineer David Mathieson, it was built around 1900.

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March 23, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Layers of ghost signs on a doorway on Virginia Street in central Glasgow.

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August 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The Janny's House of Andrew Balfour's 1908 Holmlea Public School on the Southside of Glasgow.

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September 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Old Toll House on the Southside of Glasgow, with Pollokshaws Road in the distance.

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February 15, 2026 at 7:06 AM
This meant they didn't have to first step down into the street, which would have been covered with, amongst other things, horse manure.

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September 28, 2026 at 5:53 PM
James Miller's rather gorgeous Sunlight Cottages in Kelvingrove Park, which he designed for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition.

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August 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Ghosts signs for the Typewriter Repair Co on Oswald Street in Glasgow.

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January 27, 2026 at 9:45 AM
The Suffrage Oak on a junction box on Derby Street in the west of Glasgow.

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October 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The Kelvin Aqueduct in Maryhill. Opened in 1790, it carries the Forth and Clyde Canal over the River Kelvin.

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April 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
After the first one opened on London Road in 1876, public bath and wash houses rapidly became a key part of life in Glasgow, and by 1914, there were 26 of them spread right across the city.

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September 30, 2026 at 8:32 AM
I've always loved this 'face' on a tenement on Dumbarton Road in the Partick area of Glasgow.

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November 16, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Looking down the Clyde from Boden Boo Beach, with its many layers of history.

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December 8, 2024 at 12:39 PM
A rather unusual inscription around a doorbell on a grand Victorian townhouse in the West End of Glasgow.

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September 8, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Cast iron mile post on Glasgow Road in Milngavie to the northwest of the city.

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December 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A ghost building on Robertson Street in Glasgow. I love all the different phases visible in the stone and brickwork.

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February 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The sculpted ghost signs on the former Maryhill public baths and wash house in Glasgow (now the Glasgow Club Maryhill) mentiones in my previous post. These baths were designed by A.B. MacDonald and were opened in 1898.

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September 29, 2026 at 10:04 AM
The Old Ship Bank Building on the corner of Saltmarket and Bridgegate in Glasgow. Built in 1904, it's named after the Ship Bank, which first opened on this site in 1750.

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September 25, 2026 at 5:54 AM
The Robroyston Wallace Monument in the north east of Glasgow.

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August 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The South Rotunda, once the southern entrance to the Glasgow Harbour Tunnel, which ran under the Clyde at Finnieston.

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July 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM