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This can include wally dugs (china dogs), and wallies (or false teeth). This, in itself, is derived from an older meaning of anything fancy, splendid or highly decorative.

#glasgow #broomhill #tenements #tiles #ceramics #tenementtiles #wallyclose
December 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
A fine example of a wally close in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. A wally close is a tiled a commununal stairwell a Glasgow tenement, with the word wally being a Scots word for anything made from ceramics or china.

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#glasgow #broomhill #tenements #tiles #ceramics #tenementtiles #wallyclose
December 28, 2025 at 9:41 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

Instagram post: 08/12/25
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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#WallyClose tiles in Lisbon @tnmnttiles.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 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: 09/12/25
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 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: 09/12/25
The image shows a view looking down a dark staircase with a curved balustrade. The stairs and mid wall are a gloss red, with the upper wall painted peach pink. The image captures the view looking up the same spiral staircase, highlighting its architectural features of the steps underside. At the top, a small clear skylight.
December 9, 2025 at 9:46 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: 07/12/25
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 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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#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
thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
A rather beautiful wally close in the west end of Glasgow. For those not familiar with the term, wally refers to the ceramic tiles used to line the communal stairwell (the close) of a tenement building.

#glasgow #wallyclose #tiles #ceramics #tiling #hyndland #architecture #architecturephotography
June 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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
thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
A rather wonderful example of a wally close I came across today in Mount Florida on the Southside of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #wallyclose #tiles #tiling #ceramics
May 2, 2025 at 7:17 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
tnmnttiles.bsky.social
#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