It was built in the 1820s to collect tolls from the users of the turnpike roads which were created in the latter half of the 18th century to connect Glasgow to the towns of ayrshire to its southwest.

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The Old Toll House on the Southside of Glasgow, with Pollokshaws Road in the distance.

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Recorded at Gorbals Sound in Glasgow

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Love this crow-stepped gables and roof vent combination on Robert Rowand Anderson's 1890s Scots Baronial style Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on the Southside of Glasgow.

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Layers of history in Pollokshaws on the Southside of Glasgow. At the centre of the picture is the last surviving remnant of the old Pollokshaws Burgh buildings, constructed in 1803.

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A lone blonde sandstone tenement on Greenview Street in the Pollokshaws area of Glasgow.

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As always in cases like this, it is likely to depend on insurance, and in particular the willingness of an insurance company to make a sufficient pay-out in a timely fashion.

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Unfortunately, it was very badly damaged by a fire over the weekend, and is now little more than a shell. Hopefully, it can be saved in some form or other, but history in Glasgow is not on its side.

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The B-listed Pollokshaws Church on Shawbridge Street in the Southside of Glasgow photographed today. One of the last surviving buildings from old Pollokshaws, it was built in a Georgian style in 1843 as the Pollokshaws Original Secession Church.

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St Mary Immaculate Church in the Pollokshaws area of Glasgow. Built on a hill overlooking the surrounding houses, it's a beautiful little Gothic style Victorian church. Designed by W. Nicholson, it was constructed in 1865.

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As it's Movember, I thought I'd post this cute little moustachioed face at the top of this decorative cartouche on the 1890s Scots Baronoal style Pollokshaws Burgh Hall in Glasgow.

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Robert Rowand Anderson's 1890s Scots Baronial style Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on the Southside of Glasgow.

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Designed by Thomas Baird and built in 1902 for John Campbell, a branch of the Commercial Bank of Scotland originally occupied the ground floor offices with flats occupying the floors above.

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A lone surviving tenement building on Greenview Street in the Pollokshaws area of Glasgow.

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This had been demolished a few years previously after the university moved to its new Gilmorehill canpus in the city's West End.

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The tower of Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on the Southside of Glasgow. Built in the 1890s, the tower's design, with it's distinctive square cupola, is said to have been modelled on Glasgow's Old College campus on High Street.

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A photo from last winter of the Pollokshaws Toll House. Built around 1820 at a major crossroads, this was one of many former tolls around Glasgow, remembered in place names, but few of the actual toll houses survive.

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The John MacLean Memorial in Pollokshaws. A champion of working-class education and one-time evening school teacher, MacLean was an important political figure in the Red Clydeside era of Glasgow.

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Love this little fellow tucked under the sill of one of the rear windows on Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on the Southside of Glasgow.

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It reproduces a variety of details from now-lost Old College buildings on High Street (the original home to Glasgow University), including the square cupola on top of the tower.

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Crow-stepped gables, fleche and cupola of Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on the southside of Glasgow. Designed by Robert Rowand Anderson in the Scots Renaissance style and it was constructed in the 1890s.

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Red sandstone tenement on MacDougall Street in the Pollokshaws area of Glasgow.

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Former Commercial Bank of Scotland building in the Pollokshaws area of Glasgow. Designed by Thomas Baird, it was built in 1902.

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A red sandstone tenement with a Glasgow Style cupola on the corner of MacDougall Street and Riverford Road in the Pollokshaws area of Glasgow.

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It was one of those bright, fiery skies with rain thick in the air kind of atmospheres and it was terrific.

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