'This Is My Glasgow' is a photographic project from Colin M. Drysdale, author of 'The Outbreak', a Glasgow-based zombie apocalypse novel. All images are my own.
Glasgow University is 572 years old today.
This means that when it was founded in 1451, the Aztec Empire still ruled Mexico, the Incas still ruled Peru and the last remaining part of the Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) still ruled modern day Turkey.
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One of the things I love about Glasgow is how close it is to the mountains. In particular, you can be in the Arrochar Alps within an hour. This was the view from Ben Vorlich today and down to Loch Lomond.
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I always admire these flats at Anniesland Cross whenever I pass them. Built with Art Deco touches in the late 1930s by the Glasgow Corporation Housing Department, they contrast sharply with the 1960s Brutalist high rise just across the road.
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Many people walk past this building on Buchanan Street in Glasgow without ever really looking at it, but they're missing out as it's a magnficent example of Venetian Gothic architecture slap bang in the middle of Scotland's largest city.
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There are some buildings I'll never tire of photographing, and one of them is the Beresford on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. This Art Deco masterpiece was designed by Weddell and Inglis, and was constructed in 1937.
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How can you fail to love a country which not only has a pair of otters on one of its bank notes, but also has hidden lines of poetry about them, only visible under UV light, as one of its security features?
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Today I was pleased, and frankly rather surprised, to find I have 10,000 followers. Thanks to everyone who has helped get me to this point, and to all of you who enjoy my somewhat eclectic mix of photos and stories from a city I truly love.
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This small, unassuming building at 161 Gallowgate was home to a Quaker Grocer by the name of William Smeal. Through his work, and that of others, Glasgow became one of the key centres for the campaign to end slavery worldwide in the 1820s and 30s.
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Sandwiched between the Glasgow Necropolis and the Tennent's Brewery, the Lady Well is a truly ancient part of the city. One of a series of holy wells in the city, its origins go back hundreds and possibly even thousands of years.
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The Lindsay Tenement on Snuff Mill Road in Glasgow. It was built in a Scots Renaissance style in 1863 by David Lindsay for the workers in his neighbouring mill, which primarily made paper and cardboard for bookbinding.
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Glasgow has a problem with fire. Way too many buildings burn down, but what I want to talk about is what happens afterwards. All to often fire-damaged buildings are left in a burned out state until they have decayed so much that they have be demolished. Why?
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In the Necropolis just behind Glasgow Cathedral stands this gravestone marking the final resting place of James Jeffary. Professor of Anatomy at the nearby University from 1790 to 1848, Jeffray played a key part in one of the strangest events the city ever witnessed.
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A back lane leading between two tenements in the West End of Glasgow. In the older parts of the city, most of the major roads are shadowed by a network of such lanes which are always worth venturing down, as you can never quite be sure what you'll find in them.
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With the recent upgrade to Glasgow's Subway trains, it's worth remembering that between 1896, when it opened, and 1935, it was powered by continuously moving cables pulled by massive steam engines housed in this building on Scotland Street.
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The Beresford on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Built in 1938, it's the jewel in Glasgow's Art Deco Crown. Its facade features two columns of oriel windows, which ties it back to older Glaswegian architectural styles.
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As anyone who has followed me for more than a few weeks will surely have realised, I love a quirky shaped Glasgow tenement. These ones on Queen Margaret Drive were built in 1884 and were probably designed by H.K. Bromhead.
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For me, this is one of most interesting exhibits in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Museum. It's a fire surround from the Rottenrow Maternity Hospital into which the doctors and midwives who delivered countless Glaswegians have etched their names.
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This 1850s townhouse overlooking Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow has an interesting bit of history attached to it. It's where Albert Einstein stayed in 1933 when he received an honourary degree from Glasgow University.
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The Anchor Line Building, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow.
Built for the Henderson Brothers of the Anchor Line Steamship Company in 1906, this building was designed by James Miller in an Edwardian Renaissance style.
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The Anchor Line Building on Saint Vincent Place in Glasgow. Designed by James Miller and built in 1906 for the Anchor Line Steamship Company, it's clad not in stone, but in Faience, a type of ceramic tiling.
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Another of Glasgow's wonderful gushet tenement buildings. This one, dating from 1858, is on corner of Argyle Street and Kent Road in the west end of the city. I particularly like how they still managed to squeeze in a bay window on such a narrow frontage!
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When you're in the Garnethill area of Glasgow, keep an eye out for the small bird sculptures on the top of the lamp posts. There's over 150 of them and they are part of an art installation called Chookie Burdies created by Shona Kinloch in 1993.
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I was rather pleased to randomly come across this plaque on Dumbarton Road today. I remember watching 'All Creatures Great and Small' as a child, but I only recently realised that the vet it was based on was from Glasgow.
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A slightly different view of the Saint Andrew's Cross building at Eglinton Toll. Given the similarilties to the prow of a boat, I've always wondered if Glagow's shipbuilding tradition influenced the design of gushet buildings like this.
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This afternoon at Glasgow Cross. The meeting point of five of Glasgow's oldest roads (Trongate, Saltmarket, High Street, London Road and Gallowgate), this was the centre of the Royal Burgh of Glasgow, which was officially created in 1611.
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The statue of Dolores Ibarruri on Clyde Street in Glasgow. Also know as La Pasionaria, she was a hero of the Spanish Civil warn and is the only non-British woman to be honoured with a statue in the city.
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