A Classical style pavilion on a terrace of 1860s townhouses in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. There's a certain sense of faded granduer to this particular building.
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Soft City, a community art project which explores the history of social and retail spaces on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Led by Alice Brown and Ellie Mills, the finished soft sculpture model is currently on display at the Mitchell Library.
The Classical style Royal Crescent, just off Sauchiehall Street in the West End of Glasgow. This terrace of townhouses were designed by Alexander Taylor and were built between 1839 and 1851.
Ghost building on Renfrew Lane in Glasgow. I love how the chimney of this building looks like it was extended upwards when the neighbouring building was constructed.
The grand entrance to the former La Scala cinema on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Originally a warehouse, it was converted into a cinema at the start of the 20th Century. Designed by Duff and McKissack, it originally seated 1,000 people. It closed in 1984, and was converted into a bookshop in the 1990s.
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The building was constructed in 1903 as photographic studio for T. and R. Annan and Sons and was designed by John Keppie. However, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who was a partner in the same architectural firm as Keppie, may have designed the facade.
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The Delphic Sibyl (left) and the Prophet Isaiah (right) on the Royal Highland Fusiliers museum on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Derived from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, there was originally meant to be a third statue of the Libyan Sibyl as well.
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A young Jill Bryson in her polka dot pinny, a picture later used to promote an early Strawberry Switchblade gig in 1982.
The gig was while the band were still an indie quartet, you can hear and download a recording on our fansite:
https://strawberryswitchblade.net/live-recordings/#venue-glasgow-1982
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The site of the original department store is now occupied by the Sauchiehall Centre, which once had its own distinctive clock hanging inside, featuring automatons that moved around on the hour. I often wonder what happened to that clock as it was always a favourite of mine as a child.
The Copland and Lye Clock on Main Street in Milngavie. This clock originally hung on the Copland and Lye's Caledonia House Department Store on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. It closed in 1971 and was demolished soon after. The clock was saved and was given to Milngavie Town Council, who refurbished it and installed it at its current location.
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A member of the Glasgow University Training Corp, he was sent to the Western Front in 1917 and was killed in action barely a month later. This sign remains as an unusual memorial to a life cut short by war.
A Victorian commercial building on Sauchiehall Street in central Glasgow. Built in 1899, it was designed in an ornate Free Renaissaince style by Watson and Mitchell. Just below the dome is a ghost sign for Grieve Limited. This is a reference to William Robertson Grieve who owned a business which once occupied this building.
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In the foreground is the former ABC Cinema. Built in 1875, it had a long and interesting history as an entertaiment venue, including hosting the first ever public film screening in the city (when it was still an ice rink). It was damaged in the same fire, and despite being a listed building, and a key part of the city's social history for almost 150 years, it's now being demolished to be replaced by a soulless modern building.
Two important Glasgow buildings in a rather sorry state. In the background, wrapped in plastic, is the the Glasgow School of Art. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, it's one of the gems in Glasgow's architectural crown. Damaged by a fire in 2018, it's planned restoration has been in limbo ever since.
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Blonde sandstone Victorian tenements on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.
A striking 1860s blonde sandstone tenement on Sauchiehall Street in thr Kelvingrove area of Glasgow. I love that column of corner windows, and that top one must have a great view of the University main building and possibly Kelvingrove Art Gallery, too.
516 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Designed by Robert Duncan, it was built in 1898. In 1910, the original buildings was demolished, leaving just the facade, and Glasgow's first purpose-built cinema was constructed behind it. The cinema closed in 1926 and it became the Locarno Ballroom. It's been a casino since 1989.
The former studio of the photographers T. And R. Annan at 518 Sauchiehall Street. Designed by John Keppie in an early Renaissance style, it was built in 1903. Just creeping in to the left hand side of the photo is James Alexander Ewing's statue of Harmony of the top of the neighbouring building.
Hugh and David Barclay's beautiful 1895 Free Classical style warehouse on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. In 1910, it was redeveloped as a cinema, and in 1971, it was again redeveloped as a shopping centre. Each time the original facade was retained and a new building, to be used for a new purpose, was reconstructed behind it.
