Main dome above the entrance to the former Govan Town Halls, Govan Road, Glasgow. Designed in the Beaux-Arts Style by Thomson and Sandilands, this building was built in 1901.
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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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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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Love the new public space which has been created at the historic Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow. For me, it has just the right mix of old and new to maintain its links with the past while still giving it a modern feel.
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🔔 Huge news for McNair & Elder's 1938 streamline / international style #ArtDeco cinema ~ the dilapidated B-listed #Govan Lyceum (converted to bingo hall 1981 & closed completely 2006) will take centre stage in Govan town centre renewal ✨🎉 #ArtDecoCentenary #Glasgow www.urbanrealm.com/news/2026/03...
It's a very stylish building, but I've been able to find out relatively little about it's history prior to it being converted into a hospital.
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One of the sandstone villas on Merryland Street in the Govan area of Glasgow which became part of the Montrose Maternity Hospital in the 1930s.
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Birth Injury Claims supports Govan families when medical negligence impacts childbirth. We connect families with expert solicitors for cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy, and brain injury claims. #BirthInjuryClaims #Govan birthinjurylawyers.org.uk/near-me/glasgow-govan/
Birth Injury Compensation supports Govan families affected by medical negligence during childbirth. Our specialists help secure compensation for treatment, care, and rehabilitation needs. #BirthInjuryCompensation #Govan birthinjurycompensation.co.uk/near-me/glasgow-govan/
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of the Elder Free Library in #Govan, #Glasgow. Gifted by Mrs Elder and designed by J J Burnet. It was opened on 5 September 1903 by Andrew Carnegie tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2014/10/old-...
Whether or not Andrew Carnegie donated less or more to the library's construction than Isabella Elder, it still counts among the #GlasgowCarnegies ... but is also an outlier for 1. being built in #Govan before its annexation to #Glasgow & 2. the joint funding #hybridCarnegie bsky.app/profile/carn...
Glasgow Life, BBC, Scotsman. etc say Isabella Elder donated £10k; other sources say £27k (possible source: McAlpine 1997 & 2006) but elsewhere £27k cited as total cost... so depends on how much Carnegie donated exactly, if £27 was total & if there were other donors
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Part of the Summertown Road facade of the former Govan Town Hall in Glasgow. Designed by Thomson and Sandilands in a Beaux Arts style, it was built in 1897.
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It closed in 1946, and re-opened in 1949 as the St Francis Maternity Home, run by the Franciscan Sisters Minoress who were founded London in the 1880s and who had established a convent on Merryland Street in 1946.
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The former Montrose Maternity Hospital on Merryland Street in the Govan area of Glasgow. Created by linking together a series of neighbouring villas, it was established in the early 1930s as a private maternity hospital.
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These are: Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable type printing to Europe; Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet; Mr and Mrs Cossar, who ran the Govan Press; Walter Scott, one of Scotland's first novelists; William Caxton, who introduced the printing press to Britain.
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Sculptures on the front of the former Govan Press building on Govan Road in Glasgow.
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The dock was closed in the 1970s, but it was then re-used as part of the Glasgow Garden Festival site in 1988, which stimulated the regeneration of much of it. However, this section remains unutilised.
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The former Govan Town Hall rising above part of the former Prince's Dock on the southern side of the Clyde in Glasgow.
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Three windows on the façade of Govan Old Church.
Robert Baldie, 1873.
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Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Savings Bank in #Govan, #Glasgow. It was at one point world renowned for the Clydeside shipbuilding industry but few shipyards remain today tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/04/old-...
Love this painted bollard on Shaw Street in the Govan area of Glasgow. It's just a quirky bit of fun and it adds a splash of colour to the street.
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If anyone ever tells you that one person can't make a difference, ask them if they know about Mary Barbour.
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A plaque commemorating the life of the Scottish social reform campaigner and political activist Mary Barbour, who was born in Kilbrachan on this day in 1875, on a Hutton Drive tenement in the Linthouse area of Glasgow.
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