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streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject:

London Rd, south side east of Blackfaulds Place. The next street along is Silvergrove St - this will help to locate Blackfaulds Place, which has disappeared entirely. It led to the Greenhead Brewery, which by this time was only a bottling plant for Dunn and Moore. May 1974

Looking down Stevenson St from Abercromby St. Another interesting and impressive tenement block now demolished. Unusually, it had a stone balustrade and cast iron railing running the full length of the roof-line, guarding a rooftop drying area. The stone cartouche bears the city arms surrounded by the words ’Glasgow City Educational Endowments Board’. February 1976

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:41 pm Post subject:

Abercromby St at Stevenson St. On the far left is the Treble 2 Bar, which survives. February 1976

Abercromby St, east side between the Gallowgate and St Mary’s Church. Glimpsed on the right is St Mary’s Primary School and on the left St Mary’s Industrial School. All buildings long gone. February 1974

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:42 pm Post subject:

Gallowgate, south side at Abercromby St. May 1974

Gallowgate, south side at Tureen St. May 1974

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

Gallowgate, south side east of Claythorn St. The 1771 house with the nepus gable has been nicely restored but has lost its neighbours. Nepus gables were a common enough device in 17th and 18th century Scottish vernacular architecture, even in Glasgow, but I can’t think of another surviving example in the city. May 1974

Gallowgate, south side west of Claythorn St. Of an only slightly later date, c1780, this has also been well restored, and these two houses show what can be done but all too seldom is. May 1974

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

Bain St, west side at the Gallowgate. November 1973

Bain St. W.White & Son’s clay pipe factory, built in 1877 and by 1890 producing 14,000 pipes per day.
White and other smaller manufacturers in Glasgow supplied clay pipes to the world - according to John Hume they are commonly excavated in North American pioneer settlements and can be used for dating them. The twin buildings were formerly linked by an equally ornate 2-storey structure which housed the kilns, and the shadow of its gable can be seen. December !975

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject:

Kent St from the Gallowgate, before the iron arch and while the buildings were still full height. October 1973

At the Barras. September1973

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject:

East Campbell St. Built in 1864 as East Campbell St U P Church this has since 1932 served as the Church of Scotland Lodging House Mission. A rarity in the Calton, an almost unchanged street scene, though the tenement in the Gallowgate is gone. November 1973

Corner of Little Dovehill and Gallowgate. Renovated. December 1975

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject:

Gallowgate, south side, from Little Dovehill. All these buildings are still there, but in badly mutilated form, reduced to one or two storeys. This is the cheapest and shabbiest course of action, and one much employed around here. I don’t think ‘Gay Fashions’ meant what it would mean today. May 1974

Corner of Spoutmouth and Gallowgate. The White Tower Restaurant and the Loch Erne Bar occupied this ornate little building. October 1973

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject:

Same view, a couple of years later. Since the tenement block was about to come down I thought it was worth another shot or two. March 1976

The doomed tenement from Charlotte St. Through the pend I could see a bonfire going, so I went round for a look.

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject:

Some gentlemen of leisure were holding court.

Suspicious at first, they soon became friendly and insisted that I take their photo.