Just another rather glorious Glasgow Public Library building. This is the 1905 former Hutchesontown District Library on McNeil Street. Who wouldn't be inspired to read in a building like this?
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I love this deconstructed version of the Glasgow Coat of Arms by William Kellock Brown above the entrance to the former Hutchesontown District Library on McNeil Street in the Gorbals.
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The entrance to the former Gorbals Public Library on Norfolk Street in Glasgow, which was built by the Office of Public Works around 1930.
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Made of bronze and twice life-size, as far as I know, it's the only suspended public sculpture in the UK.
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The Gatekeeper on Kidston Terrace in the Gorbals area of Glaagow. It was created by Matt Baker in 2002 to mark the 3rd complete rebuilding of the local area in the last 150 years.
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Love this grasshopper sculpture on one of the gates of the New Gorbals Park on the southside of Glasgow.
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There appears to be a time portal under a railway bridge in the Gorbals connecting modern day Glasgow to the American Wild West of the late 1800s!
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Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour
A pub in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland in 1968.
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Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour
In the 1960s, 70s & 80s, Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 – 29 August 2020) was often in pubs and bars in Glasgow, London, Cambridge, Berlin, Hamburg, Johannesburg, New York, Torremolinos, Malaga, Mijas, Cannes and Paris.
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In 2023, they were finally returned to their rightful place on the Glasgow skyline on the top of the current theatre building.
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Statues on the roof of the Citizen's Theatre on the southside of Glasgow. They are Robert Burns (right hand end), William Shakespeare (left hand end), and the four Greek muses Melpomene, Thalia, Euterpe and Terpsichore.
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The former Gorbals Public Library on Norfolk Street in Glasgow. Designed by the Office for Public Works and opened in 1933.
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