This was what the surviving tower of the 1858 Park Church in the West End of the city looked like at 8:30 this morning.
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Good morning, Glasgow. The sun is out, the skies are blue and it's really starting to feel like Spring is really here (despite having to scrape frost off my windscreen for the school run!).
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I suspect these are a later addition as the original steps would have been sandstone, but they are still a nice design touch.
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Black and white tesserae edging the steps leading up to an 1850s townhouse in the Park District of Glasgow.
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It was originally occupied by John Houldsworth, a merchant and cotton-spinner. Houldsworth was also the last Provost of the burgh of Anderston before it was absorbed into Glasgow in 1846.
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A French Renaissance style early Victorian townhouse on Park Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson, it was buit in 1855 as Glasgow expanded westward.
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I love that just as much detail as gone into the fake windows used to hide the internal chimney flues as has gone into the real windows, including the sculpted lion heads on the corbels of the first floor lintels.
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The end of one of Charles Wilson's 1855 French Renaissance style terraces of townhouses in the Park District or Glasgow.
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They are the two lines of brown oblongs between the new tarmac and the stone setts). If you want to have a lool at them yourself, they're by the steps leading down to Clifton Street.
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I posted a week or so ago about 1850s wooden cobbles which have been uncovered during road resurfacing on Woodlands Terrace in Glasgow. The top photo is one I took of them in 2023.
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The one on the left was originally home to an insurance broker named Thomas Dunlop Douglas while the one of the right was fieat occupied by a merchant named Thomas Richardson.
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Italianate style townhouses on Park Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson, they were constructed around 1855 to overlook the then newly created Kelvingrove Park.
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The terrace itself was built in the 1850s, and it may well represent the original street surface in this area. Only a few of these wooden setts have survived and will soon disappear once more when the new modern road surface is laid on top of them.
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However, they were not as durable and were gradually replaced by shaped and smoothed granite setts (see bottom right photo). While sections of wooden paving survive in London, I've never come across another example in Glasgow.
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Wooden setts were popular in the mid-19th Century as they were smoother than the rounded cobbles used to pave streets before then, and created less noise as horse-drawn vehicles passed over them.
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What I think is a wooden sett, or cobblestone, unearthed during resurfacing work on Woodlands Terrace in the West End of Glasgow.
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1850s townhouses and tenements on Park Terrace in the West End of Glasgow.
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These houses on Park Gardens Lane in Glasgow (top left) are some of the city's most unusual dwellings.
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1850s French Renaissance style tenements on Park Quadrant overlooking Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow.
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ICYMI: New job listing: #LandSurveying #SurveyorJobs #ParkDistrict #JobOpportunity #CivilEngineering
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A row of Classical style porticos on late Georgian/early Victorian townhouses on Woodside Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by George Smith, they were built between 1835 and 1842.
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Townhouses in Glasgow's Park District. Primarily designed by Charles Wilson, these houses were built in the 1850s, 60s and 70s.
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It now seems to primarily be used by people recreating that scene from the movie Rockie in a vain attempt to stay fighting fit.
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Charles Wilson's 1853 Park Garden Steps beside Kelvingrove Park on Glasgow. Originally, it was built to help link the new Park District to Argyle Street.
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Victorian Townhouse on Park Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed in a French Renaissance style by Charles Wilson, it was built in 1855. I particularly like the Venetian style pedimented dormer windows in the attic.
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A Thomsoneque style townhouse on Lynedoch Street in the West End of Glasgow. As the name of the gates suggests, this was once home to the Park School for Girls. It's since been converted to residential flats.
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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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I've always presumed the Servants option was to be used to get the attenton of the servants of the house (for deliveries etc) rather being for servants to ring.
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An old door bell plate from a townhouse in the Park District area of Glasgow, with separate buttons for Visitors and Servants.
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