Saturday, 28 April 2012

Day 118: "Meet me at the station underneath the clock"

Day 117: Broom Church

This caught my eye on the way home from the first tennis match of the season.




Day 116: Looking up at the Princes Square entrance

Day 115: 68 Waterloo Street, Glasgow

Day 114: Something for all the Tom Allaners



This is the building opposite the Tom Allan Centre in Elmbank Street which I have been aware of but never really noticed properly, other than knowing it's now Glasgow City Council. 

It started life as Glasgow Academy in 1847, designed by Charles Wilson and subsequently became The High School (Glasgow oldest school which dates from 1460) in 1878, before Strathclyde Regional Council took it over in 1970.  It changed to Glasgow City Council in 1996.

The four statues were sculpted by John Mossman around 1880 - incidentally he was a good friend of Charles Wilson and apparently they joined forces on other buildings in Glasgow.  The statues are L-R, Cicero, Homer, James Watt & Galileo - representing the arts and sciences which revolutionised the western world.

Day 113: Links

Day 112: Princes Square Staircase

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Day 109: Reflections - so many glass buildings in Glasgow

I wonder who opened the window?

Day 108: The Old Meat Market Gate

Day 107: Graham Square, Glasgow

Sticking with the old and new architecture theme, this is on the site of the former Meat Market in the Gallowgate.  The "old" dates from 1879 and the "new" from 1998.

Day 106: Old and new architecture

Believed to be the old entrance to Queen's Park Secondary School, now on the site of the New Victoria Hospital in Glasgow & the way in to the Out of Hours Service.