Ladywell School

 Ladywell school 94 Duke Street, built in 1858 by  John Burnet senior, originally built as Alexanders school for the owner of the adjacent mill .

The building is in a Italianate style with a slim tower.

The sculptured heads are Aristotlle  ,Milton ,Shakespeare and Michelangelo, carved by John Crawford.

Aspiring Glasgow

 The spires and towers of Trinity College, Trinity Church and Glasgow University.

 

 

 

The Drover

 There has been licensed premises here since at least 1845. John Ramsay a well known east end publican took over the pub in the middle of the 1870s. The premises were demolished and a new tenement and pub was built in 1912. The Date and the initials T. A, Thomas Aitken can be seen on the building. . The pub can be found at 447 Gallowgate Road.

Tenements and High Rise Flats

 

Glasgow is currently demolishing the majority of its high flats, due to poor construction, safety concerns, the cost of upgrading to meet modern standards, and the desire to replace aging structures with more modern and suitable housing.

National Piping Centre

 

The national Piping Centre at Cowcaddens promotes the study and history of the Highland bagpipe.

It has a collection of pipes that go back three hundred years, on display are pipes from around Europe.

The building was built in 1872,it was originally built as a church in the Italianate style.