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'This Is My Glasgow' is a photographic project from Colin M. Drysdale, author of 'Glasgow Uncovered: 18 Walks Through its Past, Present and Future.' All images are my own.
One of the three rather beautiful terraced townhouses on Lowther Terrace in the West End of Glasgow.

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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowatnight #nightphotography
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Tontine Heads behind the Provand's Lordship in Glasgow. Dating from the 19th Century, these heads originally adorned keystones of arches in the Tontine Hotel at Glasgow Cross.

#glasgow #sculpture #tontineheads #provandslordship
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Love the positioning of this bench in amongst the beech trees in Dawsholm Park in Glasgow. It's a great place to sit and listen to the birds singing all around you.

#glasgow #glasgowparks #dawsholmpark
#urbanwildlife #urbannature
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
St Mary Immaculate Church in the Pollokshaws area of Glasgow. Built on a hill overlooking the surrounding houses, it's a beautiful little Gothic style Victorian church. Designed by W. Nicholson, it was constructed in 1865.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #church #pollokshaws
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A gable and turret from a neighbouring 1860s Victorian gothic church reflected in a window of the 2010s Gurdwara Singh Sahba on Claremonth Street in the West End of Glasgow.

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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #reflection
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Corner tenement at the junction of Albert Road and Cathcart Road in the Crosshill area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #crosshill #architecturephotography
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Good morning Glasgow, from a chily but sunny Great Western Road in the Kelvinbridge area of the city.

#glasgow #goodmorning #goodmorningglasgow #greatwesternroad #kelvinbridge #architecture #architecturephotography
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Sunset this evening at the Squinty Bridge in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #bridge #squintybridge #sunset #glasgowsunset
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Glasgow's has been found to be the best city in the UK to raise children. Yes, it's a survey by an estate agency (so make of that what you will), but it's interesting to look at why the city came out top.

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#glasgow
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm a bit of a sucker for brick-built industrial buildings, especially those which incorporate polychromatic brickwork decorations, like the 1910s former Wallace Scott Tailoring Instititue in the Cathcart area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #cathcart #industrialarchitecture
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I love coming across unusual architectural features, like this apparently circular room linking between two late Victorian buildings at the junction of Clarkston and Merrylee Roads in the Cathcart area of Glasgow.

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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #cathcart
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Kelvinhaugh tenements just off Argyle Street in the west of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #kelvinhaugh #tenement #glasgowtenement #architecturephotography
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The Christmas decorations in my local Tesco are very realistic this year!

#glasgow #tesco #robin #urbanwildlife #christmasdecorations
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The former Barony Church on High Street in Glasgow. Designed in a Gothic style by Burnet, Son and Campbell, it was completes in 1890. It's now part of Strathclyde University.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #church #glasgowchurch #strathclydeuniversity #architecturephotography
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Decorative tiles in a tenement close in the Cathcart area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #cathcart #tiles #tiling #ceramics #tenementtiles
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
40 Kingsway Court in the Scotstoun area of Glasgow. It's one of six tower blocks built in the 1960s as part of the Kingsway Court Estate.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #towerblock #scotstoun
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Love the details on the dome of the corner tower of W.G. Rowan's 1870s Classical style Church on Nithsdale Road in the Southside of Glasgow.

#glasgow #pollokshields #architecture #architecturephotography #victorianarchitecture
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Former Soldiers' Home on Maryhill Road in Glasgow. Designed by Malcolm Stark and Rowntree, and built opposite the Wyndford Barracks in the 1890s, it served as a respite house for soldiers and their wives.

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#glasgow #maryhill #architecture #glasgowhistory #architecturephotography
November 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Coots walking slowly and tentatively across the newly formed ice on the pond in Victoria Park in Glasgow. I guess they've not seen the advice thay the best way to avoid slipping is to walk like a penguin!

#glasgow #victoriapark #ice #coots #birdphotography #nature #wildlifephotography
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Love this Green Man style mask on the keystone of an arched window on 11 Renfield Street in Glasgow. This building was originally built in 1858, but was altered in the 1890s and I presume the mask was added at this time.

#glasgow #greenman #sculpture #architecture #architecturephotography
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A rather grand Scots Baronial style tenement on the corner of Dumbarton Road and Plean Street in the west of Glasgow.

#glasgow #glasgowbuildings #architecture #scotsbaronial #tenement #architecturephotography #glasgowtenements
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Incomplete painted glass window in Victorian Govan Old Parish church in Glasgow. Just enough survives in the one remaining panel to make you curious about what the others used to show to complete the picture.

#glasgpw #stainedglass #stainedglasswindow #window #church #glasgowchurches #govan
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
1880s Blonde sandstone tenements on the corner of Byres Road and Lawrence Street in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #byresroad
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A squirrel urging me not to obey a Do Not Feed The Squirrels sign on Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow, although given the warning below it, I resisted! The sign isn't an official one, but was created by A Sign of Humour.

#glasgow #kelvingrovepark #sign #glasgowhumour #squirrel #squirrels
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The Scots Baronial style Blairtum House in Rutherglen on the outskirks of Glasgow. Built in 1878, it was originally constructed as a manse.

#glasgow #rutherglen #architecture #glasgowbuildings #scotsbaronial #scottisharchitecture
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM