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Detail of a Greek Thomson designed panel on the former Roslin Place tenements at 373-387 Sauchiehall Street.

Greek Thomson's 1865 Grecian Buildings - now to be put on the market by the Scottish Government.

When one side of the building didn't want to pay for stone cleaning.
Maybe they won, the stone that was cleaned started to degrade.
258-260 Renfrew Street.

A young Queen Victoria, safe behind bird netting, above the central door of the former McLellan Galleries. Sauchiehall Street (James Smith 1855).

Just managed to sneak into the glorious former Bank of Scotland building on Sauchiehall Street. It's finally being done up (as an insurance office and call centre).

Great to see it gain a use again.

The strange little balcony you see when looking west from the high altar of Glasgow Cathedral is accessed from inside the tower and would perhaps have been used for the bellringer to see the high altar and know when to ring the bells at the elevation of the host. The large circular opening you can see beyond it was built in c. 1410 as the tower was being constructed and allowed the large and heavy bells to be hoisted into place.

The coat of arms on the balcony is that of the Royal College of Science and Technology (which later merged with the Scottish College of Commerce to form Strathclyde University) - probably indicating that the college paid toward the restoration of the balcony when the roof was remade in around 1900.

A sideways look at the colonnaded attic storey of architect David Rhind's 1853-57 Commercial Bank of Scotland on Gordon Street. One of the most "Edinburgh" buildings in Glasgow in my view - hardly surprising perhaps, given that is where Rhind was from...

He specialised in banks and his main other prominent work in Glasgow is the column with Sir Walter Scott on top of it in the centre of George Square.

(he also designed the street layout of Pollokshields)

I loathe bird spikes. They make the very things whose appearance they are supposed to be protecting look ugly. Also not a fan of thoughtlessly installed cables - and Glasgow is liberally infested with both.

So every now and then I spend a very satisfying 20 minutes manually removing them from photos...

One of the striking art-nouveau sculptures by Albert Hodge on Caledonian Chambers, Union St (1901).

This one's on Cambridge Street. Formerly Lord Kelvin's Warehouse, only the façade of Duncan McNaughtan's 1884 "Venetian-style" building remains - everything behind has been redeveloped.

I lived in Barton for many years, St Peter's is an amazing place, first time anyone recognised what "Saxon" architecture looked like - basically wooden construction but in stone.

Looking up into the stair dome of William B. Whitie's Mitchell Library of 1911.

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These nasty cultists have a branch in Glasgow...

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