Balgray Tower

 A Glasgow oddity, situated in Springburn housing estate.

The castellated gothic turret and villa was built in 1820 by a wealthy tea merchant apparently

going by the name of Captain Breeze ,however on checking with British Listed Buildings  it would appear the  first owner was Duncan Mossfield.

The stone villa and turret are B listed.

 

The Darnley Sycamore

 According to legend Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and Mary Stuart Queen of Scott's his cousin sat under this great sycamore tree when she nursed him back to health from an illness.

Darnley and Mary stayed at nearby Crookston castle.

The tree was damaged in the great storm of winter 2025,council tree surgeons  believe the tree will live on.

Darnley Mill

 Darnley Mill from 1664,altered cottages with conical roofed circular doocket.

Built for the stewarts  of Darnley,now incorporated into a dentist practice.

Cairns Bar

 Cairns Bar, Miller Street

 

 

 

Hatrack Building St. Vincent Street

 

Designed by James Salmon Jnr and completed in1902, the building is famous for its highly-detailed and abundantly-glazed Art Nouveau facade. Its popular name was inspired by the cupola, which has projecting finials that resemble the "pegs" of a hat rack.

Tartan Lodge

 Lodge on Alexandria Parade, originally a church.

STV Headquarters

 The STV headquarters in Glasgow are located at Pacific Quay, near the River Clyde. 

 The building was designed for SMG by Pacific Quay Developments and the architect and design firm Parr Partnership. It was completed in 2006. 

 

 

West George Street

West George Street 

Looking down and along West George Street, leading to Saint George's Tron Parish Church. Behind the church is the former Glasgow College of Building & Technology.

 

 

 

 

  

Roystonhill Spire

Roystonhill Spire, formerly Townhead-Blochairn church built in 1866, is a landmark building maintained for the community by Rosemount Development Trust.

BELL STREET WAREHOUSE FROM WATSON ST

 Bell Street warehouse [now apartment's] from Watson Street.

Trinity Church of Scotland Shawlands

 The church was built in 1903/05 and the architect this time was Andrew Black of Miller & Black. In 1929 the church became Shawlands Cross Church at the union with the Church of Scotland. The church united with Shawlands Old Church in 1998 and the Old Church closed. 

The Clyde Arc

 The Clyde Arc, better known as the 'squinty bridge', spans the River Clyde, and was constructed in 2006. The bridge connects Finnieston Street on the north bank of the river to Govan Road on the southern bank.

 

 

Our Lady and St Margaret's Presbytery:

 Our Lady and St Margaret's Presbytery Stanley Street Kinning Park.

Designed by Pugin and Pugin 1882.

The building is in a very poor condition, the windows haven't been boarded up ,the floors and walls have collapsed. It is a "C"listed building ,the wreckers ball cant be to far away. 

Bishop's Mill

Bishop's Mill on the banks of the river Kelvin in Partick it was built in 1839 on the site of an earlier mill which burned down. It remained in operation until the 1960s and was converted into an apartment block containing twenty flats in 1987.
 

St Simons

St Simon's in Patrick was founded by Derry priest Fr Daniel Gallagher to serve the huge influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-19th century.

Father Gallagher held the first Roman Catholic services in the West End of Glasgow in 1855 after his studies in Rome and was ordained in 1837.

St Simon's was built in Gothic style in 1858 by Charles O’Neill and known originally as St Peter’s. A century later it was renovated in 1956 by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, the great modernist architects who designed many Catholic churches of the era.

David Livingstone, the greatest African explorer, reportedly told the story that he only escaped from the dye works at Blantyre because Fr Gallagher taught him Latin, which let him qualify to study medicine at Glasgow University.

Fr Gallagher opened St Simon's Partick Bridge St in 1858 calling it St Peter’s. It is the third oldest Catholic church in Glasgow.

The Partick Bridge Street building served as an extension (known as the Bridge St Chapel) until the Second World War when soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces who had escaped the Nazis and who were based in Yorkhill Barracks needed a church. They would march to church on a Sunday.

Since then the building has also been known as the Polish Church.

St Simon's Parish Church was destroyed in a deliberate blaze in 2021 with the cost to rebuild the historic site estimated to be at around "several million" pounds.

The B-listed building on Partick Bridge Street was left "extensively damaged" with only four walls remaining after Ryan Haggerty, who was living in homeless accommodation close to the church, set it on fire.

Information courtesy of Glasgow Live