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A rather fine example of a corbel head on David Hanilton's 1838 Mosesfield House in the Springburn area of Glasgow.
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The main entrance of James Miller's magnificent 1903 offices for the North British Locomotive Company on Flemington Street in the Springburn area of Glasgow. It was later used as an engineering college, and then offices.
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Dawn raids to arrest those responsible for May #GlasgowCross disorder & violence when #Celtic won & some celebrating supporters became violent! @PoliceScotland
have released photos of known perps & are now rounding them up in #Springburn & other places.
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To me, this seems unlikely as, even with a relatively powerful telescope, he'd have been able to see little of the ships on the Clyde from this location.
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Balgray Tower in the Springburn area of Glasgow. The original gothic villa was built around 1820 for the book seller James Duncan, who also built the nearby Mosesfield House a few years later in 1838.
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Later William Beardmore, who owned the forge at Parkhead and after whom the Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is named, became a major share-holder in the company in 1902. It finally ceased trading in 1931.
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Mosesfield House in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Designed by David Hamilton in a Castellated Gothic style, it was built in 1838 for the bookseller James Duncan.
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The company went into liquidation in 1981, just two years before the winter gardens were damages in a storm and then abandoned.
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A rather beautiful cast-iron colum capital in the derelict 1899 Sprinburn Winter Gardens in Glasgow. This will have been created at the Temple Ironworks at Anniesland in the northwest of the city.
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They were damaged during a storm in 1983 andย have been abandoned ever since. Plans to restore it were announced in 2020, but have yet to be to implimented.
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Designed in 1899 by the hothouse builders Simpson and Farmer, with iron work by William Baird of Temple ironworks, the Springburn Winter Gardens are in the worse state of all of Glasgow's public glass houses.
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However, while this is very welcome, given the current state of these buildings, it hard to see how much of a difference this will make unless additional funds are also found.
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It's good to hear that the abandoned and derelict Springburn Winter Gardens are to be given a share of ยฃ1.8 milliom to help bring vacant land in Glasgow back into use.
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The Glasgow Savings Bank building on Springburn Way in Glasgow. Designed by Robert Ewan with Renaissance details, it was built in the 1890s.
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Allegorical figures of Speed and Science flanking the entrance to the North British Locomotive Company building in Springburn, Glasgow. They were sculpted by Albert Hemstock Hodge in 1909.
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Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of people walking by the Lily pond in #Springburn #Park in #Glasgow. The land here used to be dominated by heavy industry https://t.co/L8316ZMyhW
Love this tile I came across at the entrance to a tenement in the Springburn area of Glasgow today. It's not a design I've come across before.
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Springburn just ask and we will be there.
The former Springburn Public School (and later Springburn Primary School) on Gourlay Street in Glasgow.
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