The imposing former Tradeston Telephone Exchange in Glasgow. Designed in a Neo-Baroque style, it was built around 1935.
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The former Hamilton and Manson grain mill on West Street in Glasgow. Designed in a Flemish style by William F. McGibbon, it was built in the 1890s.
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The integration of the B-Listed Kingston House, built in 1878, into the Buchanan Wharf development by Stallan-Brand in the Tradeston area of Glasgow.
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The tower in the background was for drying hoses. At the time it was built, fire hoses were made of canvas and needed to be hung up to dry after each use to stop them rotting.
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The Classical-inspired Centre Street facade of the former Southern District Fire Station on Wallace Street in the Tradeston area of Glasgow. Designed by A.B. MacDonald, it was constructed in the 1910s.
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Tradeston in Glasgow.
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Given the central motif, I wonder if it was connected to either the Thistle Rubber Mills or the Thistle Bacon Factory, which both occupied the area behind this building, but at different times.
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Sculpted office sign above the entrance to 59 Wallace Street in the Tradeston area if Glasgow. The rest of the buildings looks like it was constructed around the 1920s.
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The former Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society grocery store (ground floor), warehouse and hall (top floor) on Dalintober Street in Glasgow. Designed by Bruce and Hay in a Flemish Renaissance style, it was built in 1886.
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... a public house, and a model lodging house for young men (containing over 300 beds, but only 6 bathrooms, on the upper 3 floors). It's now part of the Barclays Campus.
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Built in 1878, in its life its housed D.M. McGregor and Co (chronometer-makers to the Admiralty), William Barton and Co (ship's chandlers), J.B. Hetherington (file manufaturers), G. Russel and Alex Paton (ship's outfitters), ...
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A former commercial building on Clyde Place in the Tradeston area of Glasgow.
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Love the repeating pattern of the windows on thr 1878 Beco Building on Kingston Street in the Tradeston area of Glasgow.
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I love the granduer of this Neo-Baroque style 1930s telephone exchange in the Tradeston area of Glasgow. I'm sure there are many uses it could be put to, but instead it's been left empty and decaying for years.
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Photo of double decker bus sign with reflection of passengers
Not raining means visibility and no steamy streaming windows on the bus. Time to go underground. #Glasgow #SouthSide #Gorbals #Tradeston
A beautifully carved phoenix above flaming torches on the facade of the former Southern District Fire Station on Wallace Street in Glasgow.
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