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Lovely tiles and stained glass, tenement close, Highburgh Road, Hyndland, Glasgow #Glasgow #glasgowlife #glasgowarchitecture #tenement #tenements #tenementhouse #stainedglass #stainedglassart #drcorativetiles #westendglasgow #glasgowwestend #glasgowwestender #hyndland #hyndlandglasgow
Lovely tiles and stained glass, tenement close, Highburgh Road, Hyndland, Glasgow #Glasgow #glasgowlife #glasgowarchitecture #tenement #tenements #tenementhouse #stainedglass #stainedglassart #drcorativetiles #westendglasgow #glasgowwestend #glasgowwestender #hyndland #hyndlandglasgow
Former bank building, cost or arms and wrought iron gate, Paisley Road West and Stanley Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. #glasgow #glasgowlife #glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #wroughtiron #wroughtirongate #coatofarms #crest #bank #bankbuilding #paisleyroadwest
Former bank building, cost or arms and wrought iron gate, Paisley Road West and Stanley Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. #glasgow #glasgowlife #glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #wroughtiron #wroughtirongate #coatofarms #crest #bank #bankbuilding #paisleyroadwest
I had a mooch around Muirend recently and started at the old Toledo / ABC Muirend cinema, a charming little cinema where I worked briefly as holiday cover from the Odeon, who by then owned both cinema chains. Converted to flats, this is how it looks in November 2019, I’ve also included some of my archive pictures, taken shortly after closure and a Scottish Screen Archive picture of the Toledo in 1933. “The Toledo opened on 2nd October 1933. Originally seating 1,598 people It was designed by William Beresford Inglis, who built other cinemas in Glasgow and also designed the Beresford Hotel in Sauchiehall Street. The cinema design is a rare Scottish example of an atmospheric cinema. The Toledo interior was designed to give a feel that the patron was sitting outside in a Spanish courtyard, surrounded on either side by small false buildings and painted landscapes, with a ceiling above painted blue to feel like sky. Even more rarely, the exterior of the building was also in a "Spanish/American" style.” (Wikipedia) The Toledo closed on 21st October 2001 and is now flats behind the ‘B’ listed facade. #glasgow #glasgowlife #glasgowcinemas #glasgowcinema #glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #cinema #cinemaarchitecture #cinemaarchitects #williamberesfordinglis #atmosphericcinema #toledo #toledocinema #abccinemas #abccinema #muirend #beresfordhotel #beresfordbuildingglasgow #cinemabuildings #cinematreasures #scottishcinema #scottishcinemas
(formerly Dee's Department Store)
"Trongate" derives it's name from the weighing scales that were maintained by the Glasgow corporate body to facilitate trade - "tron" being an old franco-norman word signifying weight.
Originally constructed for the City of Glasgow Bank. John Thomas Rochead (1814-1878) architect. Rochead is most well-known as the architect for the Wallace Monument at Stirling - the corner tower here echoes the larger memorial for Wallace.
Originally a warehouse, located on the site of what had been "The Buck's Head Inn." Designed by the great architect Alexander Thomson (1817-1875). Important innovation in what led to "curtain wall construction."
From Wikipedia:
"Alexander "Greek" Thomson (1817 – 1875) was an eminent Scottish architect and architectural theorist who was a pioneer in sustainable building. Although his work was published in the architectural press of his day, it was little appreciated outside Glasgow during his lifetime. It has only been since the 1950s and 1960s that his critical reputation has revived—not least of all in connection with his probable influence on Frank Lloyd Wright.
"Henry-Russell Hitchcock wrote of Thomson in 1966: "Glasgow in the last 150 years has had two of the greatest architects of the Western world. C. R. Mackintosh was not highly productive but his influence in central Europe was comparable to such American architects as Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. An even greater and happily more productive architect, though one whose influence can only occasionally be traced in America in Milwaukee and in New York City and not at all as far as I know in Europe, was Alexander Thomson."
I am curious about the possible Milwaukee connection!