Allegorical figures of Speed and Science flanking the entrance to the North British Locomotive Company building in Springburn, Glasgow. They were sculpted by Albert Hemstock Hodge in 1909.

The water tower and old buildings of Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Designed by Thomson and Sandilands, and opened in 1904, Stobhill Hospital is one of the few remaining large complexes built as a Poor Law Hospital to care for those who could not afford to pay for treatment before the creation of the National Health Service.

The entrance to Saint Rollox House in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Built in 1887 using the classic polychromatic brick style of Glasgow's industrial buildings, it was once the office for the Saint Rollox Railway Works.

Balgray Tower in the Springburn area of Glasgow. The original gothic villa was built for the book seller James Duncan around 1820, but this tower was added about ten years later after it have been bought by the owner of a fleet of tea clippers called Captain Breeze.

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The Glasgow Savings Bank building on Springburn Way in Glasgow. Designed by Robert Ewan with Renaissance details, it was built in the 1890s.

Mosesfield House in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Designed by David Hamilton in a Castellated Gothic style, it was built in 1838 for the bookseller James Duncan. Mosesfield House was also where, in 1895, George Johnston designed and built the very first British motor car as part of the Arrol-Johnston company.

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Inside the remains of the Springburn Winter Gardens. Designed by the hothouse builders Simpson and Farmer, with iron work by William Baird of Temple ironworks, it was built in 1899. It fell out of use after it was damaged by a storm in 1983, and was almost demolished in 1985. However, it was saved after being given A-listed status due to its architectural importance. However, it remains derelict and is considered critically at risk.

A distant Dumgoyne lit up by today's Autumn sun as glimpsed between the high flats on Viewpoint Place in the Springburn area of Glasgow.

The former Springburn Fire Station in the north of Glasgow. Designed by A.B. McDonald and built in the 1890s, it survived the destruction of traditional buildings during the post-war years and has since been converted into housing.

The main entrance of James Miller's magnificent 1903 offices for the North British Locomotive Compnay on Flemington Street in the Springburn area of Glasgow. It was later used as an engineering college, and then offices. Recently, plans have been announced to demolish it, but these now seem to have been withdrawn, at least for the moment.

The entrance to the Recharbites Hall on Valleyfield Street in Springburn. THE Independent Order of Rechabites was a Temperance and Friendly Society which began in Salford in 1835. It opened its first branch in Glasgow in the 1840s. This particular hall was built in 1902.

The former Springburn Public School (and later Springburn Primary School) on Gourlay Street in Glasgow. Designed by David Thomson and built in the early 1870s, it was one of the first schools constructed by the Glasgow School Board after the introduction of free and compulsory education for 5 to 13 year olds through the Education (Scotland) Act of 1872.

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A rather elegant red sandstone tenement on Valleyfield Street in the Springburn area of Glasgow.

Love this sculpture over the entrance the former North British Locomotive Company building in the Springburn area of Glasgow. The chains on either side are those used to pull the completed locomotive through the streets of Glasgow (originally done by teams of cart horses, but later by steam traction engines and diesel tractors) and down to the banks of the Clyde so they could be loaded onto ships and transported all over the world.

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The former Elmvale Public School (now home to Elmvale Primary) in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Designed by H.E. Clifford with Art Nouveau flourishes, when it was built in 1901, it would have been surrounded by traditional sandstone tenements, most of which were demolished in the post-war period.