Yarrow Gardens Lane

Yarrow Gardens Lane in the west side of town.
 

Our Lady and St Francis School

 Our Lady and St Francis secondary school Greendyke Street across from Glasgow Green.

The school was designed by the famous Glasgow architectural practice of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia.     It has to be said that  its not one of their most inspiring buildings, it was used as office space after the school closed but is now vacant.

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.