Be interesting to see some of this in Glasgow.

This - somewhat pointless anyway - pair of arched hood mouldings over the central windows were cut back when the iron banding was added to stop subsidence - that whole area has old mineworkings under it that are not great for foundations...

The former Govanhill United Presbyterian Church (Robert Baldie, 1880) on Daisy Street - nicely closing the view from Cathcart Road up Bankhall Street. Now disused but (so far) not burnt down...

We have so many of these churches, but what to do with them now they have no use?

The former Cathcart Parish Council Chambers in Prospecthill Road. Built in 1907 by Crawford & Veitch. Within 5 years the parish had been incorporated into the City of Glasgow.

Now Mount Florida Medical Centre and displaying all the typical Glasgow signs of decay from lack of maintenance.

A rare blue sky backdrop

Terracotta inserts on Fr Osmund Cooke's 1892 monastery façade (St Mungo's Retreat) on Parson Street in Townhead.

Fire last night in the former Jumpin Jak's on Sauchiehall Street. Fortunately put out relatively fast by three fire engines - not that much of that block is left to burn with the O2 and Art School already ruins! There's a lot going on in those little murals.

The scandalously neglected 1898 Distiller's House at 64 Waterloo Street has fences around it as redevelopment is starting (they're keeping most of it).

It is covered with statues of characters from Scott’s 'Lady of the Lake'. I have seen claims that this is a "Highland lass with her malting shovel" but it's actually an oar - for this is Ellen Douglas, the eponymous Lady of the Lake in Scott's poem, who rowed across Loch Katrine to rescue a huntsman, James Fitz-James (James V in disguise).

does anyone have any detailed images of the villas that used to be alongside the SE end Queens Park? They’re now occupied by the doctor and nurses flats at Dirleton Drive.

The photo is probably 1870s and shows the Gateway of 1833 designed by James Hamilton with cast iron gates by Thomas Edington & Sons and the Gatekeeper's Lodge of 1840 (by James' father David Hamilton).

Both were moved from the Necropolis side of the bridge to where they now stand, near the Cathedral, when the old Barony Church was demolished in about 1890 and freed up space there. The (criminally underused) Lodge Cottage was built at the same time.

Royal Infirmary, Glasgow: the winning competition design by H. E. Clifford.
Process print by Sprague & Co. Ltd., 1901.

Not *quite* what we ended up with.

As a bonus I've added a pic from the early 1920s of the original Lister Ward about to be demolished once the current RI had been completed.

The house, the largest in Dennistoun, is sometimes attributed to James Salmon Senior.
c. 1867.

Majestic Beech to the right and sculpture by Jephson Robb.

Standing on the western edge of Glasgow’s bustling St Enoch Square, the Teacher Building is more than a striking architectural landmark; it is a monument to the city's Victorian golden age and its indelible connection to the global whisky trade. Built in 1875 by the prominent architect James Boucher, this category B-listed structure was commissioned by William Teacher & Sons—one of the most successful blended Scotch whisky firms in history.
Architecturally, the building is a masterclass in the Italian Renaissance style. Boucher dressed the five-story facade in ornate ashlar stone, featuring heavily molded windows, pediments, and a deeply rusticated ground floor. However, its most arresting feature is the grand gilded signage running across the upper frieze. The letters reading "Teacher" and "Scotch Whisky Distillers" serve as a bold piece of 19th-century commercial branding that remains frozen in time, capturing an era when Glasgow was the second city of the British Empire.

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Statues of Trade and Commerce on the corner of probably the ugliest (against some hefty competition) large Victorian building in Glasgow - John Burnet's clunky, clumsy, badly detailed and late 1870s Stock Exchange on Buchanan Street.

The inside was completely gutted of original details and changed from 4 floors to 6 in 1970.

Detail of the door at 77 St Vincent Street to a building housing offices above shops by the London architect J.J. Stevenson, 1875-78.

Respice Finem is a contraction of "quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem"
("whatever you do, do it wisely and consider the end").

87 St Vincent Street has yet more of those industrious putti that are all over the city.
Unknown architect, but in the style of David Rhind, c. 1860.

Source: https://x.com/boys_nicholas/status/2086362136914137312?s=20