The statues of George and Thomas Hutcheson on the front of Hutcheson Halls on Ingram Street in Glasgow. Carved in 1649 by James Colquhoun, these are the oldest public sculptures which still exist in Glasgow.
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The former dovecot and stables for Ibroxhill House in what is now Bellahouston Park in Glasgow. Ibroxhill House was built by John Bennett in 1801 and was demolished in 1914. Pretty much all that's left of it are these stables, and the stone portico at the entrance to the grounds surrounding Mackintosh's House for an Art Lover.
I started the day with a tree, and I'm going to end today with one, too. This is a kaki or persimmon tree in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow. It's the offspring of a hibakujumoku, or survivor tree, which was one of the few living things to survive the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in Japan 80 years ago today. It was given to Glasgow in 2002 by the Japanese as a symbol of peace.
Glasgow Corporation Water Works access cover from a street in Finnieston in Glasgow. This is a very functional item of street furniture, but there's something very pleasing about its design.
A Classical Style house built in the 1830s on West George Street in Glasgow. This one of a surprising number of survivors from Glasgow's Georgian new town which was centred on Blythswood Hill, but it's one of the few to retain its original facade pretty much unaltered.
The Robroyston Wallace Monument in the north east of Glasgow. Erected in 1900, it purportedly marks the location of the house where William Wallace, hero of the Battle of Stirling Bridge and Guardian of Scotland, was betrayed and captured 720 years ago on the 5th of August 1305. He was then transported to England, where he was hung, drawn and quartered on the 23rd of August.
Layers of ghost signs on a doorway on Virginia Street in central Glasgow.
James Miller's rather gorgeous Sunlight Cottages in Kelvingrove Park, which he designed for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition.
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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 the crowded tenements of the Cowcaddens area of the city. The park was lost when the M8 motorway was built in the 1970s.
A Phoenix rising from 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. It later moved to Garscube Road near the Central Hall, where they specialised in making ornamental ironwork.
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The former Home for Destitute Children on James Morrison Street in the East End of Glasgow. Designed by R.A. Bryde, it was opened in 1875 by William Quarrier as a replacement for a night refuge and mission hall which had earlier been established in Dovehill. It quickly became known as the City Orphan Home. In the right light, traces of the original signage can still be seen on the building's facade.
Part of the now-abandoned former Central Police Headquarters on Turnbull Street in the East End of Glasgow. Designed by A.B. McDonald, it was built in 1903. The arched pend leads through to a large central courtyard which, amongst other things, contained stables that were later converted into garages.
Mosaics of scenes from the history of the Gardgad and Royston areas of Glasgow. Created by local community groups working with artist Jane McInally, they can be found in Spire Park surrounding the remains of the former Townhead-Blochairn Parish Church.
Rails for a travelling crane, probably dating from the early 1900s, on a former quay side on the Upper Harbour of the Clyde in Glasgow (see map on the right). While such cranes are now long gone, you can find surviving sections of their rails along much of the Clyde Walkway between Glasgow Green and the Riverside Museum. These ones are just off Clyde Street.
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The company was purchased by Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Ltd in 1919, and became part of the Moss Hutchison Line in 1932, which was later taken over by P&O. It finally disappeared altogether as containerisation took over from traditional cargo vessels, ending more than a century of shipping.
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Characterised by black hulls and black funnels, the company's ships were entitled to fly a French tricolour, with a green thistle on the white central section when entering any French port. This was in recognition of the fact that Hutchison ships had carried medical supplies free of charge for France during Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 71.
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1870s former warehouse on Oswald Street in Glasgow. It was built for the shipowners J. and P. Hutchison, which had been founded in the city in 1859.
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The old Bishop Mills on the River Kelvin in Glasgow. While this building was only constructed in the 1830s, there have been flour mills on this site since at least the 17th Century. I particularly like the wheat sheaf finial on its gable end to signify the mill's purpose.
The Fernery in Victoria Park in Glasgow, with the Fossil Grove building in the background. Fossil Grove contains the fossilised remains of 325 million-year-old trees uncovered in 1887 in the quarry that now contains the fernery.
The four oldest of Glasgow's thirteen Tontine Heads. Sculpted by David and James Cation between 1737 and 1742, they originally adorned keystones of arches in Allan Dreghorn's Town Hall at Glasgow Cross. For some reason, the top left one always reminds me of Robbie Coltrane as Danny in the 1980s TV series Tutti Frutti. I think it's the hair.