Love this cast iron ornamental lamp bracket on the bridge between Holmlea and Cathcart in Glasgow, especially the paintwork.
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However, similar unattributed drinking fountains can be found outside Alexandra Park in Dennistoun (thought to have been made, at least in part, by the Sun Foundry) and Cowan Park in Barrhead.
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It is one of the few surviving examples of a decorative water fountain known to have been made by the Cruikshanks and Company foundry in Denny.
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The John Aitken Memorial Fountain at Govan Cross in Glasgow. It was erected in 1884 as a memorial to Govan's first medical officer, serving between 1864 and his death aged just 41 in 1880.
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Some rather wonderful decorative ironwork alongside the Clyde in central Glasgow.
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An old pawnbrokers sign on Dumbarton Road in the Partick area of Glasgow which has been repurposed by the Partick Housing Association, presumably in 1986.
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There seems to be a definite influence of Islamic art to its design, especially in the latticework of the central arched panel.
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Love this recently refurbished decorative ironwork on one of the mausoleums in the Necropolis, Glasgow's first major Victorian cemetery.
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A rather lovely bit of decorative and monogrammed ironwork at the entrance to the former Buchanan Instititue for Destitute Children on Greenhead Street in the East End of Glasgow.
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Decorative wrought iron grille over the fanlight of 77 St Vincent Street in Glasgow. The building was designed by J. J.Stevenson, and was constructed in the 1870s.
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Love this bit of decorative ironwork above the entrance to 39 Bath Street in central Glasgow.
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Another wonderful example of decorative ironwork from the 1880s former Savings Bank on Bridge Street in Glasgow.
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Whatever the reason, and regardless of what happened to them, these wartime efforts dramatically changes the streetscape of Glasgow, and many other parts of the UK, forever.
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Across the UK, over a million tonnes of ironwork was removed from the streets during WWII, and while there is a popular myth that much of it was never used, this doesn't seem to have been the case.
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Decorative cast-iron air vent cover on the former National Bank of Scotland building in St Enoch Square in central Glasgow.
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Love the flower detail on these Victorian cast-iron railings on Hillhead Street in the West End of Glasgow.
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It forms part of an urn on the top of a newel post supporting railings leading up the stairs to the entrance.
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Love this decorative metalwork outside one of the Victorian townhouses on Woodlands Terrace in the Park District of Glasgow.
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It was made in 1903 by the MacFarlane and Co foundry in Possilpark, one of Scotland's most important manufacturer of ornamental iron work between 1850 and 1965.
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A wonderful lion pillaster on the combined drinking fountain and lamp in Dowanhill Park in the west end of Glasgow.
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A lion's foot on an old cast-iron lamp outide Trinity, the former Free Church Seminary, on Lynedoch Street in the Park District of Glasgow.
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