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TnmntTiles
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An archive of historical design. Discoveries from Scottish tenements & beyond. Originally a Twitter project, est 2015. Now found on Instagram, FB, & here!

Images taken by myself, unless otherwise credited. Happy to share your finds? Give us a tag.
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A copy of Art Nouveau Squared arrived this morning, and I’ve been pouring over it for the majority of the day.

Great collection of images and information. Interested in a copy? More details here: www.deutscherkunstverlag.de/books/978342...
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #StainedGlass

Bsky post: 05/11/25
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #StainedGlass

Bsky post: 23/10/25
October 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #Bannister

Bsky post: 21/10/25
October 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #Bannister

Bsky post: 13/10/25
October 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #Bannister

Bsky post: 01/10/25
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo

Twitter post: 16/04/21
September 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo

Bsky post: 25/08/25
August 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #Bannister

Bsky post: 20/07/25
July 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #StainedGlass

Bsky post: 09/07/25
The image shows the staircase and a stained-glass window within a tenement building, in Glasgows southside. This is an image of a stained glass panel. The panel features a bird in flight and a branch with floral detail.
July 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #StainedGlass

Bsky post: 05/07/25
This image shows a staircase within an older tenement building. There is shoulder height tiling and a wooden banister, with unusual balustrade painted with white paint. View through the 1st landing window, to a leafy green shared back court. Original painted glass remains in the upper third of the window.
July 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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A small peek into a decade of street stomping and stairwell lurking. I hope to organise a proper celebration before the year is out.

Thank you for the likes and shares, today. 10 years of work, is worth noting even in a small way.
June 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Over the years we’ve received some media attention for our efforts…
June 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Today marks 10yrs of our little archive.

Thank you all for being part of our journey.

Below are a collection of the 1st images shared across all of our 4 platforms. I’ve included a little factoid in the description about the projects timeline.
This is a screengrab of our 1st ever content post, from Twitter. It’s dated 15/06/2015. The day our project was created. The images include four detail shots of Wally close walls. After encouraging myself to go on some wellbeing wanders, around my new neighbourhood, I began photographing and sharing images of wally close entrances on my personal page. These images began to gain interest. I decided to give them their own platform and Tnmnttiles was born. Above is a screengrab of our 1st ever Instagram post. It’s dated 17/12/2017. The image is a shot of an angled stairwell, with a fully tiled wall and a round window After discovering that our images were being lifted and shared without credit over Instagram, I decided to establish a page for the project and reclaim our content. The above screen grab shows the 1st selection of images shared under the “southside” album on our FB page. It shows 5 images, with another ‘+6’ available to view. After some lovely press came out about the project, I was asked about starting a FB for those who weren’t on the other platforms. On the 27/01/21 I did just that. Trying to keep the content different across platforms, I would vary posts of new stairwells, with images from the previous 6yrs of archiving. Above is a screengrab from our 1st Bsky post. It shows an entrance landing, with a dark wood door at the end. The walls are tiled, and two the right you can see a section of stair next to a bike wheel and a large cream couch. On the 18/10/23 I decided to move our main platform from Twitter to Bsky, and stop adding to what is now called X. Bsky content is a selection of past images across previous platforms and newly archived spaces.
June 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tiles #Traditional #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Scottish #Scotland #Staircase #Photography #Photo #Bannister

Bsky post: 05/06/25
The image shows a staircase in a Glasgow tenement. The style of black wrought iron railings and grey stone steps are a reoccurring characteristic of Tenement buildings. The choice of Green paint on the walls and doors is a little less common.
June 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A note regarding the projects up and coming 10th anniversary… Gutted to say the least.
June 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#London,

#Mosaic #Floortiles #Gallery #Historic #Traditional #Photography #Archive #Architecture #TnmntTilesOnTour

Bsky post: 02/06/25
The image shows "The Awakening of the Muses," a marble mosaic created by artist Boris Anrep. This mosaic is located in the National Gallery London. The image shows a corner detail from "The Awakening of the Muses"
June 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Scottish #Scotland #Staircase #Photography #Photo #Terrazzo

Bsky post: 16/05/25
Tenement entrance hall. The floor is terrazzo (red/white/grey materials). The walls to the side are tiled shoulder height, with plain subway tiles meeting a navy/ teal shaded floral tile and border tile at the top. In the distance you can see the start of a curved staircase, with the floor and wall design following up out of view.
May 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Staircase #Photography #Photo

Instagram post: 15/09/21
Super Wally close, with ornate tiles reaching from the ground floor to the top. The tiles are cream floral, a warm brown and a hunter green floral at the top creating a border. Camera is looking up from the bottom of the staircase, towards a panelled stained glass with painted floral design.
May 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Staircase #Photography #Photo

Bsky post: 04/05/25
Large three panel stained glass piece, on the landing of a tenement stairwell. The top panel contains a floral design, the middle panel has a traditional ship, framed in a coat of arms style design, the lower panel has been replaced with Amber coloured textured glass. A border of floral tiles are just visible in the lower right and left if the image.
May 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Mays limited edition print is now live over at Duille.com/tt.

Checkout this, and our other exclusive prints currently available at @duille.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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#Glasgow

#Tiles #Mosaic #Heritage #Archive #Photography #Photo #Architecture #Scottish #Scotland #Floral #CoatOfArms

Instagram: 29/04/25
Entrance to the Polo Lounge, Glasgow. A tiled wall, with three styles of traditional square two of which are floral one brown gradient. There are green leaves from a potted plant starting in the lower right corner to the mid of the image. Entrance to the Polo Lounge, Glasgow. Large mosaic floor, with a coat of arms surrounded by the words ‘THE SCOTTISH LEGAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY’
May 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Staircase #Photography #Photo

Twitter post: 22/09/24
View of a three floor stairwell. The staircase is squared off, allowing a shadowy view down to the ground floor. The walls are lined with chequered subway style tiles. The steps are a cool grey concrete with visible wear. There is a small green plant on the corner step.
April 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo

Bsky post: 06/04/25
A detailed view of black painted banister. Through the gaps we see a white painted wall with some water damaged. There is a small red window also in view.
April 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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#Glasgow

#WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo

Bsky post: 31/03/25
A section of entrance stairwell can be seen, lined with hexagonal pale blue tiles. These are bordered by leaf detailed tiles. There’s a low, squirrel tail dark wood banister, alongside the steps.
March 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM