The once rather grand entrance to Cumberland Street Railway Station in Glasgow. Designed by William Melville, this station was opened in 1900 and closed in 1966.

#glasgow #abandonedbuildings #architecturephotography #architecture #gorbals

I love this mural by Frodrik on the concrete blocks used to fill in one of the arches of the fromer Cumberland Street Station on the Southside of Glasgow. It fits in perfectly with the shape of the arch.

#glasgow #streetart #mural #gorbals

Glasgow Gorbals, April 1960. 180 unique historic street images of the UK and Ireland taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s are in my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing.) #Glasgow #Gorbals

UK electronic music library is making the synthesiser accessible At the Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound, beginners from all walks of life can get their hands on a classic electronic synthesiser.

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'oscillators are like the vocal cords, the filters are the lips'

#Analogue #Synth #SoundDesign #Art #Community #Gorbals #Technology #GLOSS #Glasgow #Library #Noise #CommunityEducation #Oscillator #Filter #Scotland #Learning #Sound #Moog #Elektron #Korg #Roland

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Southside Libraries : Pollokshields, Hutchesontown & Govanhill’s historic public buildings - SGHET Pollokshields, Hutchesontown, Govanhill - discover the architectural glories of 3 Glasgow Southside historic libraries serving its communities for over a century

The last occupant of the former Hutchesontown Library #Gorbals was a nursery & preschool provider but they've now vacated the building. The exterior details are truly spectacular + we got a peek in the font door too to see the tiled staircase #GlasgowCarnegies #Glasgow sghet.com/project/sout...

Night-time at the Citizens Theatre in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #glasgowatnight #nightphotography #thecitizenstheatre #gorbals

It was created a decade before the better known, and much larger Loch Katrine project was even started. However, both systems used gravity to help supply their water to the nearby city, and much of both systems are still in use today.

#glasgow #darnley #gorbals #glasgowhistory #architecture

This was part of the Gorbals Gravitational Water Company development desighed by the engineer William Gale to supply clear water to the Gorbals area of Glasgow.

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The 1840s draw-off tower at Waulkmill Glen Reservoir near Darnley to the south of Glasgow.

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This ghost sign is available as a mounted print from my online store at www.thisismyglasgow.com/product-cate...

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Twomax was started in a disused pub in the Bridgeton by Hugh McClure and Donald McIntosh (the two Macs from which its name was derived), before moving to this location on Old Rutherglen Road.

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Love this ghost sign, which was uncovered and restored as the old Twomax knitwear factory in the Gorbals area of Glasgow was being converted into residential flats.

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The former Twomax factory on Old Rutherglen Road in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Originally built as a cotton mill in 1817, it was taken over by Twomax, a Glasgow-based knitwear manufacturer, in the 1920s. In the last few years, it's been converted into residential flats.

#glasgow #gorbals

Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour

Gorbals 1968

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Built in 1975, it was designed by William James Gilmour as a homage to the city's ship-building industry.

#glasgow #gorbals #architecture #architecturephotography #church

Looking up at the steeple of the Blessed John Duns Scotus Church on Ballater Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow is reminiscent of looking up at the prow of a great ship.

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Glass Beaker Glass Beaker is built around the idea that music doesn’t have to begin with formal training, specialist instruments, or expensive tools. It comes from working directly with sound — placing a microphon...

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Recorded at Gorbals Sound in Glasgow

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Recorded at Gorbals Sound in Glasgow

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The Blessed John Duns Scotus Church on Ballater Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Built in 1975, its design is said to have been based on the prow of a ship as a homage to the city's ship-building industry.

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#glasgow #gorbals #architecture #architecturephotography #church

Welder by Andy Scott on St Ninian Terrace in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Created in 1996, this was one of the first public artworks commissioned as part of the Crown Street Regeneration Project.

#glasgow #sculpture #publicart #gorbals #architecture

Old Photograph Double Decker Passenger Bus In Castlemilk Glasgow Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of a Double Decker passenger bus in #Castlemilk, #Glasgow. Area was developed to accommodate 34,000 people from slum areas such as the #Gorbals tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2018/03/old-...

Old Photograph Glasgow Bridge Trams Glasgow Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Trams on Glasgow Bridge, #Glasgow. Glasgow Bridge spans the River Clyde in Glasgow linking the city centre to Laurieston, Tradeston and #Gorbals tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2009/05/old-...

Built in 1900, it's one of the few surviving traditonal red sandstone buildings in this part of the city.

#sculpture #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgow #gorbals

Love this Art Nouveau style figure of Britannia, with her sinuous shield, on a spandrel of James Salmon Junior's Glasgow Style British Linen Bank building on Gorbals Street in Glasgow.

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Saint Ninian Terrace in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. While this is a relatively new building (dating from the 1990s), it incorporates a number of classic characteristics of Glasgow's traditional architecture.

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#gorbals #architecturephotography

The entrance to the former Gorbals Public Library on Norfolk Street in Glasgow, which was built by the Office of Public Works around 1930.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #oldlibrary #gorbals #thegorbals #doorway #architecturephotography

Made of bronze and twice life-size, as far as I know, it's the only suspended public sculpture in the UK.

#glasgow #sculpture #architecture #architecturalsculpture #architecturalphotography #gorbals #thegorbals

The Gatekeeper on Kidston Terrace in the Gorbals area of Glaagow. It was created by Matt Baker in 2002 to mark the 3rd complete rebuilding of the local area in the last 150 years.

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The Attendants by Heisenberg. Installed in 2002 on new flats on Malta Terrace and Caledonia Road in the Gorbals in Glasgow, this is one of a series of similar figures, above each of the close entrances in the block.

#glasgow #sculpture #gorbals #architecture #architecturephotography