Craigmount on Cleveden Road in the west of Glasgow. Constructed in the 1880s, it was designed by John Gordon in a Dutch Renaissance style.
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This is a particularly impressive surviving example, and most are much more simple affairs. While I couldn't find a foundry mark on it, it seems like the type of monument the Sun Foundry would have produced.
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Many were produced by George Smith's Sun Foundry in the Port Dundas area of the city, and he held several patents for cast-iron grave markers. While they never seemed to quite take off in the way Smith intended, many still exist.
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There can't be many other libraries with carpets featuring a local A-listed historic structure!
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The carpet in the former Bridgeton Public Library (now the Glasgow Women's Library) in the East End of the city, featuring the nearby Bridgeton Cross Shelter which was created by the Sun Foundry in 1874.
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Classical townhouses on Park Circus in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson, Park Circus was built in three sections between 1857 and 1873, with this being the earliest one.
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MacKenzie, a cabinetmaker and upholsterer, was a founding partner in the Sun Foundry and was its primary financier when it was created by George Smith in 1858, which may explain why he was given quite such an ornate cast iron memorial.
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The recently restored Alexander MacKenzie memorial in the Glasgow Necropolis. Unlike almost all the other memorials in this Victorian cemetery, the MacKenzie memorial is made from cast iron.
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Craigmount on Cleveden Road in the west of Glasgow. Constructed in the 1880s, it was designed by John Gordon in a Dutch Renaissance style.
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Barrhead Cooperative Society emblem on a cast iron drinking fountain in Cowan Park in Barrhead. Dated 1897, it was manufactured by the Sun Foundry in Glasgow.
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