Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of paddle steamers leaving the #Broomielaw, #Glasgow. Steamers headed for coastal resorts such as #Largs, #Dunoon and #Rothesay on #Isle of #Bute tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/11/old-...
Glasgow putting on the style tonight, plus we are up to 3 cones now 😂😎🏴 #Glasgow #Scotland #Broomielaw
Love these column capitals featuring the prows of long boats on the second phase of the Clyde Navigation Trust building on the Broomielaw in Glasgow.
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Classical style Victorian commercial building on the Broomielaw in central Glasgow. It was built in 1878 for the ship owners J. and P. Hutchison.
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However, only the first two were ever completed, and the intended edifice running further east along the Broomielaw never made it beyond then planning stage, leaving a beautiful, but oddly unbalanced building.
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Designed by the great J.J.Burnet in a Beaux Arts Renaissance style, it was originally planned to have four phases, running left to right in this image.
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If you've ever looked at the Clyde Navigation Trust building on the corner of the Broomielaw and Robertson Street in Glasgow and thought it looks little unfinished, that is because it is.
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In my opinion, this is a major urban planning failure as a distictive waterfront can be an important element which helps to define a city's identity amongst locals and visitors alike.
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Once lined with bustling quaysides, warehouses and traditional buildings, if it wasn't for the early 1900s Clyde Navigation Trust building, it would now be very difficult to tell where in the world this is.
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The north bank of the Clyde in Glasgow as seen from the Squiggly Bridge.
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It's made from fragments of ceramics collected from the shores of the Firth of Clyde.
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This beautiful piece of street art on the Broomielaw underneath the Central Station viaduct in Glasgow is one of the street swallows created by artist Wilma van der Meyden.
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Broomielaw Signal Box, once a key part of the Darlington to Barnard Castle Railway, closed in the 1960s. Its ruins stand as a poignant link to the region’s rich railway heritage.
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"Le Monde pittoresque et monumental. L'Angleterre, l'Écosse et l'Irlande..." 1895
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