The upper floor and pediment were rebuilt when it was refurbished in the 1980s and turned into a pub called Babbity Bowster. Still occupying the site to this day, it's named after a Scottish Country Dance traditionally performed at the end of a ball.
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However, by the 1970s, when it was being used as a banana-ripening warehouse by the fruit merchant's Gilbert Walker and Co, it was a shadow of its former self and had lost its top floor and pediment.
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18 Blackfriars Street in Glasgow. Originally constructed in 1790 as a Neo-Classical merchant's house, this is one of Glasgow's surprising number of surviving Georgian mansions.
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The sign for The Aragon in the West End of Glasgow. Despite the appearance of this sign, it only opened in 1970, making it one of the newer pubs on Byres Road. Before that, it was a Butcher's Shop.
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Tenement over the Three Judges at Partick Cross in Glasgow.
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The sign for The Aragon in the West End of Glasgow. Despite the appearance of this sign, it only opened in 1970, making it one of the newer pubs on Byres Road. Before that, it was a Butcher's Shop.
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