The hotel is in Polloksheilds a few minute's from Dumbreck train station, it was originally built as a villa for a wealthy business man, John Morrrison in 1896
The red sandstone villa was designed by Thomson and Sandilands who built the former Govan Town Hall.
The building is in a Scottish Baronial style and its square tower is a well known landmark.
During the second world war it was requestioned by the Royal Navy and used as a training centre for Naval Officers, it is a B listed building .
The humpback bridge,also known as the Glasgow Botanic Gardens footbridge, is the main bridge over the River Kelvin that connects to the Botanic Gardens. This Class B listed bridge is part of the Kelvin Walkway, a scenic route along the river. The bridge was recently refurbished with work including blasting and painting all steelwork, and reinstatement of the deck.
The church was completed in 1876, and was designed by the architect James Sellars. The church was apparently modelled on the Parisian Gothic church, the Sainte Chapelle. It was built, by local subscriptions, to replace an iron church in the fields to the west of Byres Road.
The west-facing front facade has a superb rose window flanked by relief sculptures of angels. Like the original in Paris, there are twin octagonal towers and on the apex of the roof soars the delicate third spire or fleche, again in the style of the French original. The whole structure is supported on piles driven through the old mine workings which permeate the area.
The Pitt Street offices, built in 1924, were previously home to Strathclyde Police, which was the country's largest force from 1975 until the merger of the eight Scottish Police Forces in 2013.
The building has since been demolished and flats now stand on the site of the old police station.
The building is B listed and rather grand looking the architects seem to have had a field day with so many ornamentations.
The design involves a symmetrical frontage with thirteen bays along Govan Road, the central section of three bays features an arch doorway on the ground floor.
There are three windows behind a tetrastyle row of Ionic columns on the first floor, above this is a large pediment containing a carved tympanum.
At roof level there is a large dome with a colonnaded cupola on top.
The building has plethora of features including fluted columns and wheel windows.
Glasgow annexed Govan in 1912 [against the will of "Govanites" ]
The building was used by Glasgow District Corporation but gradually fell into a state of disrepair, the interior of the building was completely destroyed when it was refurbished in 1973.
In the early 2000s Gillian Berrie a Scottish film producer raised funds to convert the building into a film production facility going by the name of Film City Glasgow.
Caledonia Road Church
Caledonia Road church was completed in 1857. Alexander Thomson was the main architect.
In 1963 the church use of Caledonian Road Church ended and the city of
Glasgow took over the building. In October 1965, the church burned down and was subsequently partially demolished. Although some work has been done to the structure of the building, the risk to the ruin is considered high. Unfortunately, all plans to restore and to find it an alternative use, have all faded away. Sadly, the building sits forlornly on its own, crumbling away.
Built with red brick and blond sandstone the building is in the style of neo-Baroque ,probably its best feature is the two bullseye windows with decorated swag.
The building is in a poor state, Historic Scotland have given it B listed status.
The Braemar Bar. 145 London Road in the east end of the city, there has been a pub in this site since 1843,the pub has been up for sale for a number of years.
After a period of abandonment it was bought at the beginning of the century and it received a three million makeover and opened as a concert hall .
The Scotia Bar
The Scotia Bar dates from 1792. In its early years it was popular with workers and seamen from the docks and shipyards along the Clyde. Passengers from the nearby busy ferries also stopped for a refreshment.
The 1960s and early 1970s saw the Scotia become a haven for writers, folk singers and socialist political groups. The bar is rightly famous for music, and has featured performances from Van Morrison, Pentangle, Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty.
Henry Healy
Founded in 1912, Henry Healy built up his business from selling eggs in a cart to owning 30 stores across the city. Although the business went into receivership in 2009, there are still a few shops dotted around the city. This shop was in Mitchell Street and sadly was closed a number of years ago.
The tower was built by Wylie and Shanks, it opened its doors in 1964,at one point the college had 20,000 thousand students.
Hopefully the tower can be repurposed as its very run down.
