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Map Of Glasgow City

editor — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:52:00 +0000

Look up Glasgow! Colin Begg Never mind the rest of Northern Europe, there is nothing like you in all the world. Your ships plied queer coasts just to check and reported safe to your quaysides. Look up Glasgow! loftier are your caryatids, your atlantes than the window cranes of Amsterdam, the lead-strafed lintels of Berlin, the sleepy dormers of Paris, the Hanseatic gables. Look up Glasgow! your merchants have done their pillaging on fair winds (but not fair trade) and bought your gilded ships and rooftop globes. Look up Glasgow! be glad that the grabbing is over and the slaves

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Map Of Glasgow Airport

editor — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 05:34:00 +0000

Starbucks 58 West Nile Street Decorative Carving Architect: James Boucher (1875) This listed building features a Starbucks on the ground floor and winged mythical creatures sitting either side of the secondfloor balcony, judging you for getting whipped cream on your latte. Athenaeum Building 8 Nelson Mandela Place Portrait Statues and Allegorical Figure Groups Sculptor: John Mossman( 1886-8) Among the figures portrayed along the top of the former Athenaeum Building are English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, and the English portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. The building was inaugurated by Charles Dickens in 1847. The Library of Royal Faculty of Procurators 68

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Map Of Glasgow Centre

editor — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:40:00 +0000

Argyll Chambers 28-32 Buchanan Street Pair of Allegorical Female Figures Sculptor: James M. Sheriff (attrib.) (1903-4) The two personifications on this building have been identified as Industry on the left and Commerce on the right. The building’s owner in 1894, the wealthy tea importer Stuart Cranston, is credited with planting the roots of our present-day addiction to tea. Commercial Bank of Scotland 4-16 Gordon Street 113 Buchanan Street Narrative and Allegorical Reliefs of Children and Associated Decorative Carving Sculptors: John Thomas, Alexander Handyside Ritchie (1853-7) Architect: David Rhind (1854-7) Built as the head office of the nowdefunct Commercial Bank of

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Map Of Glasgow Area

editor — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 03:54:00 +0000

Former Glasgow Evening News Building 67 Hope Street Two Seated Female Figures and Associated Decorative Carving Sculptor: Not Known (1899-1900) Sitting high above either side of the largely unoccupied office block are two female figures with shields, who appear to mirror each other exactly. It is unclear if they symbolize anything. Originally the home of Glasgow Evening News, we can also see a printing press and a pair of owls. Atlantic Chambers 45 Hope Street (1899-1900) Columbia, Britannia and Associated Decorative Carving Sculptor: McGilvray & Ferris (1899-1900) The seven-storey red sandstone building is a transatlantic affair. The building itself is

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