The ruined portico of Mansion House in Elder Park in Glasgow. Built in 1791, Mansion House was originally sited on the Linthouse Estate and was thought to be have been designed by Robert Adam.
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Gushet tenement on the corner of Queen Margaret Drive and Buckingham Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by J.T. Rochead, it was built in 1858.
Today, #Brahms with Feng, Roukens and #Prokofiev from #Glasgow https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/brahms_with_feng_roukens_and_prokofiev_from_glasgow/86750/ #wch
www.worldconcerthall.comBrahms with Feng, Roukens and Prokofiev from Glasgow - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.comNing Feng, violin, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anthony Hermus play:
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto.
Joey ROUKENS: Night Flight.
PROKOFIEV: Cinderella.
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Nightfall this evening on Byres Road in the West End of Glasgow.
James Sellars' magnificent Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church on Observatory Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed in a French Gothic style, it was inspired by the medieval Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
This is the Ruthven Lane Cat in the west end of Glasgow. It's high on a wall on the back of an old tenement building, and it really doesn't look like it belongs there. It's a bit of a mystery as to who put it there, and why.
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The roots of a tree on Kirklee Place in Glasgow flowing like slow-moving molasses through the bars of an old iron fence. This reminds me of Lord Kelvin's Pitch Glacier Experiment (one of the longest running scientific experiments in the world), which can be seen in the nearby Hunterian Museum. It demonstrates that seemingly solid materials, like pitch, can actually flow like a liquid, if given enough time.
The Kelvin Aqueduct in Maryhill. Opened in 1790, it carries the Forth and Clyde Canal over the River Kelvin. This canal was the world's first manmade sea-to-sea water way designed to provide a shortcut for shipping, making it the forerunner of the much larger Suez and Panama Canals.
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Instead, they are likely present simply to maintain the symmetry of the building, and either hide internal features, such as chimney flues, or were used to save the cost of adding real windows, as glass would still have been quite costly at the time as each pane would have had to be hand-made.
The Georgian neo-Classical Aikenhead House in King's Park in Glasgow. If you look carefully at the windows at the left hand end, you'll see they're actually fake, with the mullions and transoms painted on stone. This wing was added in 1823, some 75 years after the introduction of a window tax in Scotland, so it's unlikely they were originally designed as functional windows that were then sealed up.
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Beautifully sculpted green men on the obelisk sundial in King's Park on the Southside of Glasgow. This is one of three Victorian replicas of the 1635 Mannerist sundial at Newbattle Abbey House in Midlothian.
The former Logan and Johnston School of Domestic Economy on James Street in Glasgow. Designed in a Scots Renaissance style and built in 1893, it provided training and education for destitute girls.
The Glasgow Tower, the tallest structure in the city, at sunset.
Ben Lawers from Meall Corranaich on a beautiful day in the Scottish mountains spent avoiding the news and knocking another couple of munros off the list.
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John Thomson's Classical style tenement building at Bridgeton Cross on the East End of Glasgow. It was built in 1871, meaning it's probably the oldest remaining building at these crossroads.
P&R Fleming and Co of Glasgow maker's plate on a 1910s metal lattice-work bridge in Victoria Park in Glasgow. The company was founded as an iron merchants in the early 1800s by brothers Peter and Robert Fleming, along with their brothers-in-Law William and Matthew Strang, with their original premises at 29 Argyle Street. By the 1860s, the company had expanded to cover metal-smithing, gas-fitting, and the making lattice-work bridges, such as this one.
