A cast-iron mile marker on the road between Glasgow and Aberfoyle (to use the modern spelling). Originally placed every mile, I know of six, out of of what was presumably originally around 27, that are left in situ along this road.
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Tickets are £12.50 each and there are 20 spaces available.
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A quick reminder that I'll be running a walking tour in Glasgow next Sunday (26 April) starting at 10am and lasting 1.5 to 2 hours. It will be looking at the history and architecture of Buchanan Street and its surrounding areas.
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During his tenure, he successfully petitioned King William to grant Glasgow the status of a Burgh, which marked its birth as a city.
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Bishop Joceline (or Jocelin), the Bishop of Glasgow between 1175 and 1199, on Saint Mary's Episcopal Cathedral on Great Western Road in Glasgow.
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It's thought to have been carved in the 900s or 1000s, when Govan was an important ecclesiastical centre within the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde.
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The Jordanhill Cross, one of the @govanstones.bsky.social in Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. It's the lower section of a celtic-style cross and is decorated with a figure on horseback and geometric knotwork designs.
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Tickets are £12.50 each and there are 20 spaces available.
You can book a place or find out more about it here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-histor...
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***New Walking Tour***
I'll be running my next walking tour in Glasgow started at 10am on Sunday 26 April 2026. It will be looking at the history and architecture of Buchanan Street and its surrounding areas.
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These features were designed to thwart the body-snatchers of the early 1800s who would steal the recently buried to sell to local medical schools.
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A cast iron mortsafe and stone watchhouse in the Cadder Parish Churchyard on the outskirts of Glasgow.
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It connected Govan Wharf with the former Meadowside Shipyard, Quay and Granary, all of which are now gone. This ferry ceased operating in 1966, along with the Govan Ferry and the Finnieston Vehicular Ferry.
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The remains of what I think is part of the old Meadowside Ferry port. The Meadowside Ferry was one of around ten different ferry routes which used to criss-cross the Clyde in Glasgow.
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This changed the area dramatically, and it's now not only dominated by post-war Modern architecture, its also Scotland's 6th largest locality by population.
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Kirk Wynd in East Kilbride to the southeast of Glasgow, lined with late 18th century and early 19th century dwelling houses, and with a 19th century church tower in the distance.
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Allason's time at Greenbank was brief as his business suffered greatly in the American War of Independence and he had to give the house up when he was made insolvent in 1784.
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Allason had started his working life as a baker's apprentice in the Gorbals, but when on to become one of the Glasgow Virginia merchants who made fortunes from trading tobacco and slaves.
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Greenbank House in Clarkston, near Glasgow. Possibly designed by Allan Dreghorn, this house was built in 1764 for Robert Allason.
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This one was made by A. and W. Smith, which was founded in Paisley on 1836, and later operated out of the Eglinton Engine Works in Tradeston, meaning it may well have been made relatively locally.
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Installed in 1889, it was originally at the entrance to the Harbour Workshop. It even still has the stone tramways on either side of it to make it easier for horse-drawn vehicles to travel over the surrounding setts.
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I love the fact this weigh station has been left in place in the new park at the Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow.
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This memorial was created by John McArthur, and is one of a pair of identical memorials. The other is in Elder Park on the south side of the Clyde.
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The disaster is thought to have been caused by poor stability combined with a large amount of loose gear and too many people on board. As a result, limits were imposed on the number of people allowed to be on a ship as it launched.
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The SS Daphne Memorial in Victoria Park in the west of Glasgow. It was erected in 1996 in memory of the 124 people, many of whom were little more than boys, who died when the SS Daphne capsized during its launch on 3 July 1883.
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This may explain why these ones can be found alongside the canal, which was constructed at the end of the 18th century.
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In this photo from the Applecross Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of Glasgow, there are cobblestones on the left and setts on the right.
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Cobblestones vs Setts. These two types of traditional road surfaces are often confused, but they're easy to tell apart.
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It's recently been cleaned up and is part of the new park created on the site, allowing visitors to explore it.
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This would originally have contained the boiler, accumulator and pump used to pump water out of what was the largest and deepest dry dock in the UK at the time it was constructed in the early 1870s.
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The original pumphouse and sluice houses for Number 1 Dock of the former Govan Graving Docks on the Clyde in Glasgow.
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