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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 8h

The Glenlee, Glasgow's tall ship, as nightfalls. This shot was taken a while ago, but I came across it today when looking for another photo, and liked it enough to re-post it.

#glasgow #glasgowatnight #nightphotography #theclyde #tallshipglenlee #tallship #riversidemuseum #sunset #glasgowsunset

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11h

Every sign has a story behind it, and I suspect this one in Bowling, just to the west of Glasgow, might be more interesting than most.

#glasgow #bowling #A82 #roadsigns #weirdsigns #ignoresatnav #strangesigns #satnav #sign #signofthetimes #satnav

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks, but I can only take credit for the book! 😀 I hoe you enjoy your time in the city. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 13h

A rather lovely carved wooden bench in amongst the autumn leaves in Victoria Park in the west of Glasgow.

#glasgow #autumn #victoriapark #streetart #fish #sculpture #woodcarving

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 18h

Entrance to an old railway tunnel under the tenements of Thornwood in the west end of Glasgow.

#glasgow #oldrailwaylines #abandonedglasgow #abandonedengineering #thornwood #tenements

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 19h

Traditional sandstone tenements climbing Thornwood Avenue in the west of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #buildingphotography
#architecturephotography #thornwood

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

Hyndland Road tenements in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #hyndland

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

Good morning, Glasgow. It's a misty start to the day, but with the leaves turning on the trees, it's still a day full of autumn-y goodness.

#glasgow #goodmorningglasgow #goodmorning #autumn #glasgowtoday #autumninglasgow #autumnphotography #mist

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Love this little dragon on Robertson and Dobbie's 1908 Glasgow Style warehouse on the corner of Glassford Street and Wilson Street in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #merchantcity #buildingphotography #architecturephotography #sculpture #dragon

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

There is that, too. I suspect when they were planned, there was the assumption that Glasgow would continue expanding outward and would eventually incorporate them. Of course, that never actually happened.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Different designers, but buily ibt the same year, which may explain the similarities. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

While such developments made it easier for those living in surrounding suburbs to access the centre of Glasgow by car, they did little for the communities through which they passed.

#glasgow #strollox #possilpark #urbandevelopment #architecture #urbanplanning #tenement #architecturephotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Traditional pre-World War One red sandstone tenement on Springburn Road in the north of Glasgow left stranded by post-World War Two road development.

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#glasgow #strollox #possilpark #urbandevelopment #architecture #urbanplanning #tenement #glasgowtenements #architecturephotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

It also provided utilities such as electricity and gas, and in 1859, it created the first council-owned public water suppy in the UK in a a bid to improve the city's health through the provision of fresh, clean drinking water.

#glasgow #glasgowcorporation #glasgowhistory #municipalsocialism

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Through this, it provided a wide range of services to try to inprove the lives of its population, including extensive public housing, schools, art galleries and museums, public transport, public health, and parks.

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#glasgow #glasgowcorporation #glasgowhistory #plaque #municipalsocialism

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

While officially created in 1890, the Glasgow Town Council was known as the Glasgow Corporation ever since the city was given its first Burgh Charter in 1175, some 850 years ago. By the late 1800s, the Glasgow Corporation had become a pioneer of Municipal Socialism.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

A plaque marking trees planted alongside the Clyde at Glasgow Green to commemorate the demise of the Glasgow Corporation, and its replacement by the City of Glasgow District Council, in 1975.

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#glasgow #glasgowcorporation #glasgowhistory #plaque #glasgowgreen #municipalsocialism

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Compulsory Team-building Weekend.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

It was indeed. 👍🙂

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

Designed by C.J.McNair in an Art Deco style and built in 1939, the Ascot was considered a super-cinema as it had a capacity of 1,963 people. It closed as a cinema in 1975 and only the facade now remains.

#glasgow #architecture #artdeco #glasgowbuilding #cinema #cinemacity #architecturephotography

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

The former Ascot Cinema (renamed in Gaumont in 1950), Anniesland, Glasgow. This is one of Glasgow's lost neighbourhood cinemas. There used to be so many of these local cinemas in Glasgow in the 1930s that it was nicknamed Cinema City.

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#glasgow #architecture #artdeco #cinema

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1d

The area at the centre was thicker and had ripples in it, and this created the bullseye effect. Such glass was traditionally cheaper than flat panes.

#glasgow #architecture #glass #bullseyeglass #anniesland #glasgowbuildings #architecturephotography #window

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