I love the repeating pattern created by the low autumn sun in these tenement bay windows lining a Glasgow Street.

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Love this end terrace house on Kingsborough Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by George S. Kenneth, and including Glasgow Style elements, it was built in 1902. A talented young architect and a near-contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh at the Glasgow School of Art, Kenneth was killed in a train crash at St Enoch Station just a year after this house was built. He was aged twenty-nine at the time.

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Happy 83rd birthday to the plastic traffic cone: Patented in the USA in November 1943; abused in Glasgow ever since!

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We might be on the verge of winter, but last week there was still at least one butterfly out and about, and making the most of the late autumn sun. It was sunning itself on a gravestone in Sandymount Cemetery in the east of Glasgow.

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The Finnieston Bar on Argyle Street in Glasgow. Built around 1800 as a drovers' inn for those bringing cattle and other livestock into the city's meat markets, this building has since become engulfed by tenements as Glasgow expanded westward.

Rumour has it Rob Roy MacGregor, the infamous outlaw, cattle-rustler and Jacobite folk hero, once stayed here. However, this can't have been in the current building as he died around seventy years before it was constructed.

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1860s warehouses at Speirs Wharf in the north of Glasgow. Positioned at the end of the Glasgow spur of the Forth and Clyde Canal, close to its junction with the Monkland Canal, this was once an important inland port. The building in the foreground was constructed for the Port Dundas Sugar Refinery, while the one in the distance was formerly part of the City of Glasgow Grain Mills and Store. They were both converted into flats in 1991.

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Everyday it gets a little colder, and everyday the robin in my garden gets a little bolder!

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Love the sculpted road name on this castle-like early 1900s red sandstone corner tenement in the Hyndland area of Glasgow.

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1870s townhouses on Westbourne Gardens in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow. Backing onto Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Westbourne Terrace, these townhouses are usually described as being Thomsonesque, but they are now thought to have been designed by Thomson himself.

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The thirty-six houses which once made up the village were cleared sometime after the bridge was built, possibly to improve the view from Pollok House or possibly to make way for a new road, and its inhabitants were moved to nearby Pollokshaws.

While no trace of Pollok Toon remains, it's still remembered to this day for its witch trial of 1677, which saw six people sentenced to death for witchcraft.

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A 1750s stone bridge over the White Cart in Pollok Park on the Southside of Glasgow. The iron tramway and kerb protectors were most likely added later and made it easier for horse-drawn vehicles to cross it. The bridge was built to connect the grand Georgian-era Pollok House to the village of Pollok Toon on the other side of the river.

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In total 36 cases were identified, and 16 of those people died. In the densely packed tenements of the early 20th Century Gorbals (which at times was up to 40,000 people per sqaure kilometre), it could easily have been far worse.

While they were initially slow to realise what was going on, it was probably only the decisive actions of the local health officials that prevented it from being so. However, even with their efforts, it wasn't until November that before was declared plague free.

Somewhere behind these modern flats on Errol Gardens in the Gorbals area of Glasgow once stood 71 Rose Street. This was much like any other tenement in Glasgow, except that in 1900 it was the focal point for the last outbreak of bubonic plague in Scotland.

This was part of the third plague pandemic which officially lasted from 1855 until 1960. While it killed millions in India and China, Europe was largely spared, but on the 3rd of August 1900, it unexpectedly reached Glasgow.

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The Garthamlock and Craigend Water Towers in the east of Glasgow. Built in the 1950s and 1960s, these are classic examples of post-war architecture and reinforced concrete construction.

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#watertower #architecture #architecturephotography

Early morning autumn sun on a red sandstone tenement in the Broomhill area of Glasgow.

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Congratulations to the Citizens Theatre for winning the Theatre Trust's inaugural Great British Theatre award. It also won an award the top quality renovation work carried out while it was closed between 2018 and 2025, so well done to everyone who was involved that.

If you're interested, this photo is available as a mounted print from my online shop at: https://www.thisismyglasgow.com/product/the-citizens-theatre-at-night-mounted-size-10-inch-by-12-inch/

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A red sandstone corner tenement in the sun on West Princes Street in Glasgow.

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King of the Castle on Dougrie Place in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow. Created by Kenny Hunter, in collaboration with members of the Castlemilk Writers' Group, in 1999, it features a young boy wearing a cape and looking off into the diatance from the top of a large dome. Known locally as The Boy Wonder, it was originally sited on a roundabout on Fernhill Road, but it now stands on a hill amongst some of the areas 1960s tower blocks, looking north across the city.

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Autumn sycamore trees in Victoria Park in the west of Glasgow.

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The City of Glasgow Police Board were responsible for public health between 1862 and 1895, when it was transferred to the Glasgow Corporation. This included the period when the Belvidere Hospital was created in response to an epidemic of relapsing fever which spread across the city in 1870.

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