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.
