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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 27m

Good morning, Glasgow. For the next few days, the sun will rise directly behind the Squinty Bridge, making for some great photo opportunities - provided the skies remain relatively cloud free! #glasgow #goodmorning #glasgowtoday #sunrise #squintybridge

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 2h

A stained glass window by John Clark, showing a Scottish folk dance in progress, was added below the original glass cupola above these stairs when it was converted into the National Piping Centre by McGurn, Logan, Duncan and Opfer in the 1990s. #glasgow #architecture #cowcaddens #stainedglass

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 2h

Looking up a stairwell in the former Old Cowcaddens Church in Glasgow. Designed by Campbell Douglas and Sellars, it was built in 1872. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #cowcaddens #stainedglass

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 2h

The entrance to 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. #glasgow #church #glasgowchurches #architecture #architecturephotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 17h

The same style was quickly adopted by other financial institutions, including the nearby Bank of Scotland building designed by James Miller in the mid-1920s. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #stvincentstreet #modernclassical

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 17h

The former Phoneix Assurance Building on St Vincent Street in central Glasgow. Designed by Alex D. Hislop and constructed in 1912, it was one of the first American-influenced Modern Classical style mini-skyscraper in the city. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #stvincentstreet #modernclassical

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 17h

Love the details on this sculpted decorative panel on Thomas Lennox Watson's late 1880s Citizen Building in St Vincent Place in Glasgow. This was one of the first commercial buildings constructed in the city using red sandstone. #glasgow #architecture #sculpture #stvincentplace

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

Well, it certainly hasn't gone anywhere recently! 😀

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21h

That's what I saw too. It's a pity the Goad fire insurance map for Glasgow available online through NLS doesn't quite reach this far out!

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 22h

After a very wet start, it turned into a rather gorgeous autumn day just in time for the mid-morning dog walk in Victoria Park in Glasgow, and a great photo op, thanks to well-placed pair of swans! #glasgow #dogwalk #autumn #swan #victoriapark

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 23h

It does seem to, but I haven't been able to find a photo or a map thay specifically identifies it was a tenement. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The rather odd roof suggests this building is the surviving stump of a tenement, where the upper floors have been demolished at some point in the post-war years. #glasgow #byresroad #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I love the details around the entrance to this shop on the corner of Byres Road and Vinicombe Street in the West End of Glasgow. Buillt around 1890, one of its first occupants was J.S. Fleming, an ironmonger, blacksmith and cycle agent. Cont./ #glasgow #byresroad #architecture #tenement

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The impressive curving facade of Salisbury Quadrant on Nithsdale Drive in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. Designed in the imposing Classical style of Thomson and Turnbull, it was built around 1880. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #strathbungo

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Both Jessie and Annie survived on Lifeboat No. 11, while Harper died in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic along with around 1,500 others. In 1921, the church he'd founded on Craigiehall Street was renamed the Harper Memorial Baptist Church in his honour. #glasgow #glasgowhistory

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

John Harper was on the maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic, along with his 31 year old niece Jessie Leitch and his six year old daughter Annie, when it struck an iceberg just before midnight the 14th of April 1912, some 370 miles to the southeast of Newfoundland. Cont./

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A memorial to John Harper, the founder of Paisley Road Baptist Church, in Craigton Cemetery on the Southside of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #rmstitanic #craigtoncemetery #memorial

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Basically, yes, but at the posher end of what a semi-detached would be. It distinguishes them from terraced townhouses. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Four of the twenty-four sculpted corbel figures on William Whyte's 1886 French Rebaissance style tenements on Queen's Drive in Glasgow. These four are thought to represent the seasons (spring and summer on the top and winter and autumn underneath). #glasgow #architecture #sculpture

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A double villa on the corner of Kelvinside Terrace West and Wilton Street in the North Kelvinside area of Glasgow. Built around 1860, it's described as Thomsonesque, and is a beautiful little building. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #northkelvinside

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Don't mention the F word in Glasgow! 😀

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Good morning, Glasgow. There was a brief, but rather beautiful sunrise over the city this morning, with the clouds on the eastern horizon lit from below. Unfortunately, the effect only lasted about ten minutes before it faded back into autumnal greyness. #glasgow #sunrise #autumn #goodmorning

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

However, the spire at the top of the tower wasn't completed until the 1890s. By this time, Gilbert Scott had died and the work was completed by his son, John Oldrid Scott. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowuniversity

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The main buildings of Glasgow University in yesterday's occasional sunshine. Primarily designed by George Gilbert Scott, the University moved to this building in 1870. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowuniversity

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There's a couple of examples of iron kerbs in the back lanes of Glasgow, but they're certainly not common! 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think it's pretty much out now. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's a temporary one set up (along with other rides) for the half-term holidays and the run up to Hallowe'en. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Looking down the Clyde from the Riverside Museum at sunset this evening. #glasgow #sunset #glasgowtoday #riversidemuseum

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's now as much a sign of acceptance of a statue as an insult. In fact, I'm not too sure there's any evidence it was ever meant an an insult, rather than a drunken challenge.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The monumental Scottish Provident Institution Building on St Vincent Place in central Glasgow. Constructed in 1904 in a French Renaissance style that would be just as much at home in Paris as it is in Scotland's largest city, it was designed by J. M. Dick Peddie. #glasgow #architecture

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is just one of many such sites within a short distance of Glasgow, making it the perfect base for exploring some of the less well-known events Scotland's history. #glasgow #ayrshire #scotland #scottishhistory #scottishphotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He's said to have used these stone-cut steps to reach a vantage point on the cliff high above the River Ayr from where he preached to his followers gathered on the opposite bank. Cont./ #glasgow #ayrshire #scotland #scottishhistory #scottishphotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The cove is named after Alexander Peden, a former student of Glasgow University who became a leading figure in the 17th Century Covenantors movement. He spent more than a decade on the run and often wore a wig and leather mask to hide his identity. Cont./

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A quick trip out of Glasgow today to visit these steps cut into a red sandstone cliff at Peden's Cove in the Ayr Gorge near Failford in Ayrshire. Cont./ #glasgow #ayrshire #scotland #scottishhistory #scottishphotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I do run the occasionally, but I really should get round to doing them more often. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yes, it's one of many memorials across the city to verious atricities committed all over the world. There's also ones to Srebinicia (in the Glasgow University Peace Garden) and to a massacre of Kurds in Iraq (Queen's Park).

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

By the looks of it, it's original, and while I couldn't find any foundry mark on it, there's an old gas lamp at very top which was made by Moses McCulloch and Co., Scotland's second oldest architectural ironworks. #glasgow #sixtysteps #architecture #northkelvinside #streetfurniture

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This guard stone prevented horse-drawn carts and carriages damaging the wall as they negotiated the hair-pin bend of the carriage ramp the wall was built to create. Cont./ #glasgow #sixtysteps #architecture #northkelvinside #streetfurniture

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A cast iron guard 'stone' at the eastern end of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's 1872 massive retaining wall on Kelvinside Terrace in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #sixtysteps #architecture #northkelvinside #streetfurniture

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Most such sculptures represent figures from Greek, Roman, Egyptian or even Persian mythology, or are allegorial figures expressing particular virtues, such as prudence, the owners wished to be associated with their institution. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #gordonstreet

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Built for the Standard Life Insurance Company in 1890, it's one of the few architectural sculptures representing biblical parables or figures on the city's many grand financial buildings. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #gordonstreet

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins by James Young on a pediment of the Standard Building in Gordon Street opposite the Central Hotel in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #gordonstreet

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

James Miller's 1930 imposing Modern Classical style former Commercial Bank of Scotland of the corner of West George Street and West Nile Street in central Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #westgeorgestreet #modernclassicalarchitecture

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This view shows quite how much effort Walker went to to develop his land on the North Bank of the Kelvin, and it must have been worth it. When he died in 1875, he left assets worth around £33,000, or around £3 million in today's money, accumulated from his various business ventures.

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