#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 13/02/26
#Glasgow
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Bluesky post: 10/02/26
Popped into a stairwell to archive, and found this mini gallery on to top floor.
#Glasgow
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Bluesky post: 23/01/26
This is a a view from a traditional communal staircase, from the to floor facing down the stairwell. The bannister is traditional wood and metal design, with concrete grey stairs and landings and a red gloss paint from the floor to shoulder height on the walls.
Glasgow
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Bluesky post: 13/01/26
#Glasgow
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Bluesky post: 11/01/26
#Glasgow
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Bluesky post: 04/01/26
This can include wally dugs (china dogs), and wallies (or false teeth). This, in itself, is derived from an older meaning of anything fancy, splendid or highly decorative.
#glasgow #broomhill #tenements #tiles #ceramics #tenementtiles #wallyclose
A fine example of a wally close in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. A wally close is a tiled a commununal stairwell a Glasgow tenement, with the word wally being a Scots word for anything made from ceramics or china.
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#Glasgow
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Instagram post: 08/12/25
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Bsky post: 09/12/25
The image shows a view looking down a dark staircase with a curved balustrade. The stairs and mid wall are a gloss red, with the upper wall painted peach pink.
The image captures the view looking up the same spiral staircase, highlighting its architectural features of the steps underside. At the top, a small clear skylight.
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 09/12/25
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 07/12/25
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 05/11/25
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 23/10/25
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 21/10/25
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 13/10/25
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 01/10/25
#Glasgow
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Twitter post: 16/04/21
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Bsky post: 25/08/25
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 20/07/25
The image shows the staircase and a stained-glass window within a tenement building, in Glasgows southside.
This is an image of a stained glass panel. The panel features a bird in flight and a branch with floral detail.
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 09/07/25
This image shows a staircase within an older tenement building. There is shoulder height tiling and a wooden banister, with unusual balustrade painted with white paint.
View through the 1st landing window, to a leafy green shared back court. Original painted glass remains in the upper third of the window.
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 05/07/25
The image shows a staircase in a Glasgow tenement. The style of black wrought iron railings and grey stone steps are a reoccurring characteristic of Tenement buildings. The choice of Green paint on the walls and doors is a little less common.
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 05/06/25
A rather beautiful wally close in the west end of Glasgow. For those not familiar with the term, wally refers to the ceramic tiles used to line the communal stairwell (the close) of a tenement building.
#glasgow #wallyclose #tiles #ceramics #tiling #hyndland #architecture #architecturephotography
Tenement entrance hall. The floor is terrazzo (red/white/grey materials). The walls to the side are tiled shoulder height, with plain subway tiles meeting a navy/ teal shaded floral tile and border tile at the top. In the distance you can see the start of a curved staircase, with the floor and wall design following up out of view.
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 16/05/25
Super Wally close, with ornate tiles reaching from the ground floor to the top. The tiles are cream floral, a warm brown and a hunter green floral at the top creating a border. Camera is looking up from the bottom of the staircase, towards a panelled stained glass with painted floral design.
#Glasgow
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Instagram post: 15/09/21
Large three panel stained glass piece, on the landing of a tenement stairwell. The top panel contains a floral design, the middle panel has a traditional ship, framed in a coat of arms style design, the lower panel has been replaced with Amber coloured textured glass. A border of floral tiles are just visible in the lower right and left if the image.
#Glasgow
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Bsky post: 04/05/25
A rather wonderful example of a wally close I came across today in Mount Florida on the Southside of Glasgow.
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