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Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 23d

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

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 23d

And one that was just South of the Glasgow City boundary (sadly now gone😔)

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 23d

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)

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 23d

World Cup finito - view from Hampden Park looking North. 20/7/26

View of Main stand Hampden Park, Glasgow with mock sign in foreground of footballer/Scott McTominay doing an overhead free kick with text ‘beware of flying Scotsmen’

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 24d

Also from 2023 - Clyde Street, Glasgow. One of the Dalbeattie granite piers of the old Caledonian Railway Bridge into Central. Inscription in Greek and English Ian Hamilton Findlay commissioned for the TWSA 4 Cities project in 1990. Debate over the translation of the text from Plato's Republic

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 24d

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:

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 26d

View West along George Street at Shuttle Street, Glasgow 15/7/26. William Stark’s St George’s Tron Church bookended by cranage.

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 27d

…Dougal …this is small but that is far away... small far away... Ah, forget it!

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 28d

😲 just heard an Oystercatcher flying over Hampden Park, Glasgow … must have got well and truly lost !

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 29d

Guess the pub?

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· 29d

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.

Hospital pavilion building under renovation with scaffolding and blue sheeting in front and twin towers on top

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 13

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.

Red postbox on side of Old Castle Road, Glasgow - has the cypher GRVII of front and marked Handyside Foybdry.

The Scottish industrialist Andrew Handyside purchased the Britannia Iron Works in Derby in 1848. Under his leadership, the company gained international acclaim for the exceptional quality of its cast iron, producing everything from railway bridges and station structures to ornamental vases.

The foundry became a key contractor for the General Post Office (GPO), beginning its work with post boxes in 1855. Their reputation for high-quality, durable ironwork made them the natural choice for the mass production of the iconic pillar box.

The company continued to thrive long after Andrew Handyside's death in 1887, under the management of Colonel Alexander Buchan. However, the firm eventually went into liquidation around 1931. A successor company, Derby Castings Ltd, emerged to take over operations, though it ceased trading just two years later in 1933

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 11

Sydney Opera House lit by sun and shaded by Harbour Bridge shadow 11/7/26 (pic JB)

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 10

Mural by @mul_draws - Newcastle based artist Alex Mulholland on wall of @CASSART1984 in Springfield Court, Glasgow (8/7/26)

Mural on turquoise background - cartoon representation of a horse with grey dots on grey coat. Being ridden by a one-eyed cartoon red on heart holy a polo stick and a smaller one-eyed heart in pink is

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 9

Origami butterflies 🦋 in Virginia Court, Glasgow- artist unknown

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 9

There’s a goose 🪿 loose about this hoose … @terminal.dystopia.art artwork #2 on junction box at corner of High and Cathedral Streets, Glasgow

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 7

Some pocket-sized Glasgow books

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 4

Kamakura - Jumyoji Temple. June 2019.

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 4

Greater Spotted Woodpecker getting tore into a bird feeder near Jenny Lind, Glasgow.

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 4

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

The stone carving on the north side of the former Royal Bank of Scotland building
between Buchanan Street and Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow.

It is the work of stonemason
Colin McCougan from Girvan, who graduated from The Glasgow College of Buildng and Printing (now part of The City of Glasgow College) as the top stonemasonry student in 1966.

The carving depicts that part of the silk frieze in the Grand Hall of the Trades Hall. The silk frieze depicts the work of all the individual trades and was manufactured in Belgium in the nineteenth century.

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jul 4

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.

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 27

One of my favourite places in the City - Old Cathcart Parish Church - photo 27/6/26. A similar view from the Duncan Brown archive at GSA circa 1880. More on the Church/Duncan and Thomas (no relation) Brown in ALT

Picture of the ruins of Old Cathcart Parish Church (built 1831) showing tower on right and the Brown Mausoleum/Aisle on left. Trees (ash, sycamore etc) in fore and background.

More on Thomas Brown (from Glasgow West Address)

…was born in Ayrshire, and was bred to the medical profession. He practised in London, and, having made a fortune, returned to Scotland, and buying part of Robert Crawford's lands of Langside in 1776, he built thereupon, from a plan of Robert Adam, what now forms a great part of the present house. NOTE - this may be why the Adam is credited with the design of the Mausoleum/Aisle

Semple describes it as "an elegant large modern house upon an eminence, three stories high, pavilion roofed, with a platform covered with lead; the house stands due east and west, the front is toward the north with office houses in form of a court; the main door is beautified with a large portico supported by two large square pillars arched over, upon which is a balluster and rail walk, and a pediment above."

In 1766 Thomas Brown married Martha, eldest daughter of George Bogle of Daldowie, by whom he had four sons and one daughter; he died in 1782, and was succeeded by his eldest son, George Brown.

Sepia photograph of Old Cathcart Parish Church and yard with people in foreground.

From GSA archive

Duncan Brown (1819-1897) was a talented amateur photographer whose work documented aspects of Glasgow life from the 1850s until the 1890s. From 1845 to 1862 he was employed as the janitor at the Glasgow School of Art, which was then a Government School of Design located at 116 Ingram Street.

From HES

CHURCH: probably by James Dempster, 1830-31, superceded by present church (completed 1929) on nearby side outwith churchyard. Only tower (roofless) and W gable now survive. Gothic with hood-moulded pointed-arched openings, some traceried, with wide-splayed ingoes - glazing destroyed; tower has 3 diminishing stages and diagonal buttresses, these pinnacled above crenellated parapets. Stugged ashlar with polished dressings. Blocked north-facing door has mask label-stops, corresponding South-facing opening contains surviving upper part of timber panel with painted inscription.

AISLES: (A) "The burial place of Thomas Brown of Langside and his family 1782" (inscribed), in the style of Robert Adam. Neo-classical; square-plan, with identical elevations each composed with wall-planes progressively recessed towards centre, and each having a round-arched opening (blind, except at S) set in a recessed margin, patera in spandrels, angle pilaster strips; inscription panel to S and bases of broken bases over angles. Polished yellow ashlar. Modern wrought-iron gate. Roofless (perhaps a dome or pyramidal roof was originally contemplated).

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 26

Colourful mosaic at @grainandgrindgla Clarkston Road, Old Cathcart ,Glasgow and a 1933 photo showing the rhs of the shop. Love the wee wummin hingin’ while cleaning windaes!

Black and White photo from 1933 (c Virtual Mitchell) of 111 Clarkston Road showing A Massey & Sons with Grocery delivery man and bike at front. 109 - part of Greenless & Sons storefront is shown on left

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 25

A previous ‘uncovering’ of Thomson’s Egyptian Halls back in January 2025 capturing some of the finer details of the front elevation

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 25

Great to see the front of the Egyptian Halls been uncovered once more. The view (RHS) on Union Place hasn’t been hidden so much in fact been a backdrop in films like The Running Man. Some interesting AGT details e.g. columns on windows. Can any of this be renovated?

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 24

Less than 12 hours to go #Scotland v #Brazil …The Clockwork Pub, Mount Florida, Glasgow

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 21

A patch of St. John's wort in flower at Battlefield Road entrance to Mount Florida Station, Glasgow. The name derives from the fact that it blooms in late June, coinciding with the feast day of St. John the Baptist (June 24)

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 19

It’s a good time to see where the Molendinar and Camlachie Burns enter the river - just West of the weir on the North Bank. See this picture from 14/1/24.

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 18

The Supermoon

Walk Talk Tours@walktalktours· Jun 18

In celebration of the recent Supermoon - Carrer de Sa Lluna, Sóller, Mallorca