Decorative Victorian railings on Park Terrace in the West End of Glasgow.
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This is an interesting comparison between Victorian railings which have been stripped of the many layers of paint which once covered them, and the neighbouring ones where it hasn't. It's amazing how much of the crisp, fine detail is hidden by more than a century's built-up of thick paint. This is on Queen's Drive on the Southside of Glasgow.
Love this spirelet on Saint Mungo's Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow, with fish-scale bands and topped by an ornate iron cross with a rather unusual heart-shaped nimbus. The church was built in 1841 in an Italianate Gothic style from a design by George Goldie.
A Grahamston Iron Company drain cover on the grounds of the Glasgow Vet School at Garscube in the west of Glasgow. Grahamston Iron Company was founded in Falkirk by William Thomson Mitchell in 1868, and went into liquidation in 1993.
Love this door handle on the former Barony Church on Rottenrow in central Glasgow. The building dates from the 1880s and was designed by Burnet Son and Campbell.
Another wonderful example of decorative ironwork from the 1880s former Savings Bank on Bridge Street in Glasgow.
Love this decorative ironwork on the former Savings Bank on Bridge Street in Glasgow. This branch was built in 1888 as an insert into the ground and first floor of an older mid-19th Century tenement.
Decorative metalwork on the Albert Bridge in Glasgow. Built in 1868 to a design by Bell and Miller, it's the only substantial wrought-iron arched bridge in Scotland.
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Decorative cast-iron air vent cover on the former National Bank of Scotland building in St Enoch Square in central Glasgow.
The newly decorated 1902 lamp base outside the Botanic Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. I love how this now looks.
Love this lion rampant on the gates of Òran Mór in the West End of Glasgow. Originally built as the Kelvinside Parish Church, it was converted into an entertainment venue in 2004. Òran Mór is Gaelic and can be translated as the Big Song or the Great Melody of Life.
This is one of four rather amazing cast iron lamp bases outside the former Dennistoun Public School (now St. Denis' Primary) in the East End of Glasgow.
The Kibble Palace, arguably Glasgow's finest example of Victorian iron work. Created by John Kibble, it was originally built at Coulport on the shores of Loch Long before being taken apart, moved to Glasgow and re-built at its current location in The city's Botanic Gardens in the 1870s.
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This was needed as in horse-drawn vehicles, the steering is essentially in the middle,and behind the 'engine' (i.e. the horses), making it much harder to turn tightly as the cart has a tendancy to cut the corner after the horses have turned into it.
A surviving metal kerb-protector on the corner of Wellington Street and St Vincent Lane in central Glasgow. This was designed to stop the kerbstones being worn away by the wheels of carts and also to help guide them into the narrow lanes between the buildings, so that they didn't damage them.
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Love the flower detail on these Victorian cast-iron railings on Hillhead Street in the West End of Glasgow.
Love this simple, but amusing, bit street art. It's on the Queen Margaret Drive railings for the Botanic Gardens in Glaagow, and I think it's by A Sign of Humour.
Love the squirrels and the dragons on the ornamental benches in the Kibble Palace glasshouse in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens.
Bootscrapers of Park Circus in the west end of Glasgow. Bootscrapers are very basic, functional item of metalwork, but I love all the different ways they've been made to look a bit more fancy.
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