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Discovering Glasgow, it’s hidden Countryside, Southside, West End and beyond. Celebrating the City www.walktalktours.uk Insta: @walktalktours1 T/X @tours_talk
A little blog a while ago on the history - and more recent reuse - of doocots.... blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/02/the-...
The History & Reuse of Doocots - Historic Environment Scotland Blog
Doocots have a fascinating history from medieval pigeon homes to noted architectural gems. Explore the evolution, cultural significance and innovative reuse and restorations of the Scottish “dovecots”...
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Cob, Pen and seven Cygnets gliding gracefully along the Clyde close to @gsc1 and @PS_Waverley on 31/7/26
There’s been a murdur’ 😂- Fire & Rescue training under Bells 🔔 Bridge on the Clyde (28/7/26)
New artwork on Finnieston Crane created by Glasgow artist Emer Tumilty. It has been commissioned for the Glasgow 2026 Festival, ‘The Glasgow Rose’ is inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh's celebrated roses.
The delicate ballet as The Waverley pirouettes around its midships and heads off doon the watter! First stop Greenock (26/7/26)
The Floating Wetlands in the Canting Basin @gsc1 with tower and Queen Mary to the right
Mother Duck and 10(? keep moving 😂) ducklings making their way upriver from the Clyde at BBC Scotland building
Welsh 🏴 Corner - Hope Street Glasgow ! Sosban Fach ! @glasgow_2026 @teamwales
& more ...from left towers/domes Kelvingrove, University Chapel Spire, University Flagpole, Tower & Library, Skypark Office and flats at Houldsworth St at right . Ben Lomond and Dumgoyne in the distance ...
So (see the earlier post) as a starter we have the Smoke Stack in the Hidden Gardens, the Clyde Arc Bridge, The Hydro and the Finnieston Crane all in alignment
What’s that keekin’ oot the trees … Steeplejacks atop Campbell Douglas & Sellars 1872/3 Crosshill Queen’s Park Church but look right and how many Glasgow landmarks can you see? (taken 20/7/26)
World Cup finito - view from Hampden Park looking North. 20/7/26
Unusual double staircase entrance to the tenement flats in Hampden Terrace, Mount Florida, Glasgow. One of the first blocks of tenements in the area built in 1870-72. Constructed by local builders George & Alexander Eadie The brothers also owned a brickfield in nearby Hangingshaw. Cont:
View West along George Street at Shuttle Street, Glasgow 15/7/26. William Stark’s St George’s Tron Church bookended by cranage.
…Dougal …this is small but that is far away... small far away... Ah, forget it!
😲 just heard an Oystercatcher flying over Hampden Park, Glasgow … must have got well and truly lost !
Steels in place in the renovation of the 3rd Pavilion block at James Sellar’s (former) Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow. Sellar’s 1888 impression of the completed Infirmary. He did not live to see it completed dying of blood poisoning an injury sustained at the Glasgow International Exhibition 1888.
A relatively rare George VII pistol box on Old Castle Road, Old Cathcart, Glasgow. This one is pre-1905 given its design and having the mark of the Handyside foundry. More on ALT.
Sydney Opera House lit by sun and shaded by Harbour Bridge shadow 11/7/26 (pic JB)
Mural by @mul_draws - Newcastle based artist Alex Mulholland on wall of @CASSART1984 in Springfield Court, Glasgow (8/7/26)
Origami butterflies 🦋 in Virginia Court, Glasgow- artist unknown
There’s a goose 🪿 loose about this hoose … @terminal.dystopia.art artwork #2 on junction box at corner of High and Cathedral Streets, Glasgow
Greater Spotted Woodpecker getting tore into a bird feeder near Jenny Lind, Glasgow.
Another overlooked gem - this time on the former Royal Bank of Scotland building (off Buchanan Street). ‘Medieval Masons at Work’ was commissioned by the Incorporation of Masons of Glasgow and is the work Colin McCougan Erected in the autumn of 1998
Often overlooked and/or stood on to view the Glasgow (in)famous traffic cone is this piece of sculpture by New York artist Lawrence Weiner installed in the paving around the GoMA in 2014 - more in ALT
![Rounded corner section of pavement and steps with the phrase ALONG THE WAY/ COME WHAT MAY, SOMEWHERE/ SOMEHOW.
This commission for the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the only publicly-sited artwork by Lawrence Weiner in Scotland. It is the first public artwork commissioned by Glasgow Museums for GoMA since it opened in 1996.
Typically working with language, Weiner uses the phrase, 'ALONG THE WAY/ COME WHAT MAY, SOMEWHERE/ SOMEHOW' for the piece. These are set into the stone step surrounding GoMA and its entrance. This step puts the gallery onto a shallow plinth, creating a space for sitting, meeting and conversation.
Weiner wrote a text about this work stating that 'art is not a metaphor… [people use art to create metaphors] in relation to their own needs and desires. The use of a public art gallery as the plinth for a sculpture… [allows] the public to do [what they want] with [it] as they may.’
Through the placement and content of COME WHAT MAY, SOMEWHERE SOMEHOW, a space is created for the public to respond to the idea of what a public art gallery is and how it is used.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f54suzyj4wnkpl4kya4apk3p/bafkreiasjag7tnlfyfmc3xaatfus4mkoi5xh24admswhefrprxzml5f7nq)
