Day 365: Compassion

Day 364: A hip-hop Rockefeller of Oystercatchers

Day 363: The Oystercatcher Pub

Day 362: Portavadie Marina

 

Day 361: Loch Lomond

Day 360: Christmas toys...Yay!

Day 359: Inside the City Chambers

Day 358: Breakfast at Piccolino e Vino

Day 357: The Irvine Valley from Whiteways

Day 356: Templeton Business Centre

 

This building began life as Templeton Carpet Factory and

James Templeton from Paisley patented a chenille Axminster process

by which he could manufacture more densely patterned and richly

coloured carpets. He went on to become one of the most successful

carpet manufacturers in Britain, producing carpets for state occasions,

 great houses, luxury liners including the ‘Titanic’, as well as domestic use.

 

William Leiper's design is directly inspired by the late medieval Palazzo Ducale

(Doge’s Palace) in Venice. The flamboyant glazed brick, vitreous enamel tiles,

 red brick and terracotta of the facade evokes the rich Oriental-influenced patterns

of the carpets the factory produced. Work began in 1888 and was completed

in 1892 after a major interruption caused by a terrible accident possibly

caused by inadequate scaffolding and tying-in of the new building with the

existing one behind it. On 1 November 1889, part of a wall collapsed

under construction during high winds, trapping over 100 women

working in the weaving sheds at the back; 29 were killed.

 

 

Day 355: A Food Tech Christmas Cake

Day 354: Royal Exchange Square

Day 353: Donald Dewar, First First Minister

Day 352: Parklands

Day 351: Shiny Pine Needles

Day 350: The Party's Over

Day 349: Peter Pan at Mearnskirk Hospital

 

 

In Memory of Dr John A Wilson OBE.

 

Dr. Wilson was the first superintendent of Mearnskirk Hospital. 

After serving in World War 1 & having done research work in bacteriology,

he joined the tuberculosis service of Glasgow Corporation in the 1920s

and took up his post at Mearnskirk in 1929 when it was still being built.

He was highly respected and while he worked at Mearnskirk

was also senior lecturer in clinical tuberculosis at Glasgow University.

He held both posts until his death in 1946.

 

Dr. Wilson had arranged for several small cement statues of children's figures

 to be erected in the hospital grounds for the amusement of the young patients.

He had always hoped to erect a bronze statue of Peter Pan,

but died before this dream could come to fruition.

In his memory, his friend and hospital benefactor Alfred Ellsworth

launched a fund for this purpose, and on Sunday 5 July 1949

 the finished statue by sculptor Alex Proudfoot RSA,

Principal of Glasgow School of Art, was unveiled.

 

 

Day 348: "Oyster House"

 

Part of an exhibition by design students at

City of Glasgow College's Florence Street campus.

 



Day 347: Merchant Square

Day 346: Princes Square entrance

Day 345: George Square

Day 344: The Dome

Day 343: Colourful buses

Day 342: The latest secret book sculpture unveiled

 

Unveiled at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh

Friday 7th December 2012

 

Written on the book:

 

"You too, my mother, read my rhymes

For love of unforgotten times,

And you may chance to hear once more

The little feet along the floor."

 

(Robert Louis Stevenson)

 

and the label says "For the love of books"

and "Every ending marks a new beginning"

 

The sculptor is anonymous.

Day 341: Buchanan Street, brightened by the lights

Day 340: Holmwood House

 

 

Holmwood has been described as Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's

finest domestic design. It was built in 1857-8 for James Couper,

 a local businessman.

 

 

Day 339: At the Italian Centre

Day 338: Central Station Christmas Tree

Day 337: The new Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

Day 336: Managed to get the decorations up today