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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 10h

A fantastic colour shot of the "Old Swan" tenement at the junction of Pollokshaws and Haggs Roads, around 1968. In 1971 it became the first Housing Treatment Area, leading the way for subsequent tenement rehabilitation schemes.

📷 Colin Duncan

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 1d

"Glesga? Deid mate. It's a ghost toon these days".

Looking south down a deserted Buchanan St, with James Miller’s quirky 1896 Flemish Renaissance subway building visible in the distance.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 1d

The images show Depardon’s eye for everyday enigmas - a young band of ice cream eaters claiming their territory, or a weary couple caught in a moment of melancholic tenderness. Moments in time, captured and then forgotten for 45 years.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 1d

The Magnum Photo Archive has recently published 5 unseen photos from Raymond Depardon's now iconic Glasgow 1980 series, discovered during a digitisation project.

📷 Magnum/Raymond Depardon

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 2d

There was some spectacular light in Shawlands last night. Looking along Pollokshaws Rd to the Crossmyloof Mansions gushet of 1900. Destination: the Granary, to watch Scotland pull off an unlikely 3-1 win over Greece.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 4d

Looking down to the ground floor there are three stairs spanning the basement area; two lead to main door flats, while the central stair leads to the close entrance.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 4d

Some of the details are exquisite: tourelles with elaborate finials and cannon(?), beautifully carved panels, corbelled blind balconies trimmed with ropework.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 4d

Whyte almost exclusively designed tenements, and was also a builder and master mason which might explain the abundance of carved stone.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 4d

One of the most eclectic tenement facades in the city can be found on Broomhill Dr. Designed by William M. Whyte, who was also responsible for Balmoral Crescent off Queen's Drive, it was built between 1902-4. The style can only be described as "baronial fairytale".

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 5d

Condemned tenements on the corner of Preston St and Cathcart Rd, Govanhill, shot in 1978 shortly before demolition.

📷 JR James Archive

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 6d

Most of the houses were constructed with columned entrance halls, rich plaster work and marble chimneypieces. The towers of Trinity College (1857), and the tower of Park Church (1858) stand immediately behind Park Gate and Park Circus. The missing slice of Park Quadrant was completed a few years ago

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 6d

Looking across Woodlands Rd to the Park district on Woodlands Hill. It was first laid out for housing in the 1830s and 1840s, with the houses on the upper slopes designed by architect Charles Wilson and built 1855-1863.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 6d

This Art Deco building on Great Western Rd was built 1929-31 to designs by James Lindsay Jnr for Walter Hubbard, to house his bakery and tea room. For many years it was a pub of the same name with, ahem, a famous nightclub upstairs. Cleopatra's aka Clatty Pat's is now Kitty O'Shea's.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 7d

It was built in 1819 as West George St Independent Church to designs by J Gillespie Graham, and acquired for use as railway offices in 1842.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 7d

Looking down into George Square from the top of the City Chambers in the 1950s. The curved roof of Queen St Station is visible, with the Classical portico of Wardlaw's Kirk, dead centre.

📷 Ian Milne, John Hume

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 7d

Early 20th century red sandstone tenements on Cranworth St in the West End, illuminated by the late evening sunshine last Friday.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 8d

Streapadair's 1974 shot shows the neighbouring bar of many names with half a rowing boat mounted on the wall. Fire damaged and derelict for 20 years, the remains of it have just fallen into the street as a result of Storm Amy.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 8d

The Broomielaw, featuring JJ Burnet's Clyde Navigation Trust building of 1883-86 and extended 1906-08 by Alexander Muir and Sons.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 8d

Last orders for "that pub wi the boat" aka "The Waterfront", aka "Minstrels", aka "The Doune", aka "The Double Six". It lay empty before going up in flames in June 2005, and has been derelict ever since. Storm Amy finished the job yesterday, much to the annoyance of this car owner.

📷 The National

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 8d

A wee jaunt out to the Pavillion in the storm last night to see Stuart Mitchell 😍

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 9d

An excerpt from a film about conditions in Priesthill, Glasgow in 1984.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 9d

Looking along Belmont St from Great Western Rd, to the crown spire of the former Nathaniel Stevenson Memorial Church, built 1898-1902 to designs by JJ Stevenson, nephew of ship owner John J. Stevenson who provided much of the finance. Nathaniel, a Free Kirk elder, was his father.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 10d

You could be forgiven for thinking this was an autumnal view of Dowanhill or Hyndland in Glasgow, but these are the brownstones of Brooklyn, NY, captured by one of my new favourite photographers on Instagram, Oscar Diaz.

Thanks to Sear's Pizza for the heads up 👍

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 11d

Looking out the window today, Fridays sunshine seems a long time ago 😩

Looking up Vinnicombe St towards Kersland St, from Byres Rd.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 11d

A wee jaunt out to the Hydro last night. The Finnieston crane was looking all mean and moody in silhouette against its brightly lit neighbours. Would be nice to see it illuminated at night.

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