This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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A sunset shot looking west from Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow taken a few days ago. The building is Glasgow University, while the statue is part of the Lord Roberts Monument.


#sunsetphotography #sunset #lordrobertsmonument #glasgowuniversity #kelvingrovepark #glasgowsunset #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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Another misty start to the day today here in Glasgow, but it did make for some atmospheric photo opportunities.

It also made for a relatively pleasant conditions for my early morning run.

#runglasgow #morningrun #glasgowuniversity #mist #goodmorningglasgow #goodmorning #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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There's a great photo of Einstein and his host standing together on these steps as they smoked (presumably because they weren't allowed to do it inside the house!)

#glasgowuniversity #kelvingrovepark #alberteinstein #glasgowhistory #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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This 1850s townhouse overlooking Kelvingrove Park in the west end of Glasgow has an interesting little bit of history attached to it.

In the 1930s, it was home to Archibald Young the professor of Surgery at Glasgow University, and when Albert Einstein visited the city in 1933 to receive an honourary degree, it was here that he stayed.

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#glasgowuniversity #kelvingrovepark #alberteinstein #glasgowhistory #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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Not a real picture, but a bit of fun to mark last night's blue supermoon. Supermoons are when the moon looms larger in the sky because it's briefly closer to the Earth. A blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. This was done with photoshop, but both images were taken in Glasgow.

#skyatnight #glasgowuniversity #glasgow #supermoon #bluemoon

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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The gothic splendour of the University of Glasgw on Gilmorehill rising above the houses of the north of the city as seen from Speirs Wharf on the Forth and Clyde Canal early this morning.

#hogwarts #gothicarchitecture #ForthAndClydeCanal #glasgowtoday #speirswharf #glasgowbuildings #architecture #glasgowuniversity #universityofglasgow #glasgow

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A summer evening on the River Kelvin in Glasgow, with the Glasgow University tower lit up by the last rays of the sun.

#summeringlasgow #glasgowbuildings #architecture #glasgowuniversity #riverkelvin #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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Today's animal in Glasgow's architecture is this cute little thing poking it's face out from some foliage on Glasgow University's Memorial Chapel.

I know I've posted a picture of this before, but it's good enough to be worth posting again.

#designdetails #architecturaldetail #glasgowuniversity #animalsinarchiecture #sculpture #animals #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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One of the two remaining classical town houses on University Gardens in Glasgow designed by J.J. Burnet and built in 1882.

These buildings are famous of two things:

1. Having the cheapest beer on campus (when they housed the Research Club).

2. Being the birthplace the word 'Isotope' in 1913.

I don't think these two claims to fame are related in any way (but then again, who knows!).

#glasgowhistory #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #architecture #isotope #glasgowuniversity #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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The main buildings of Glasgow University towering over the tenements and other buildings in the west of the city.

#cityscape #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #yorkhill #glasgowbuildings #glasgowuniversity #glasgow

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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Love this intricate Gothic Arch doorway, surrounded by relief sculptures of thistles and enclosing carved wooden doors on Glasgow University's main buildings.

#glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #gothicarchitecture #architecture #doorway #glasgowuniversity #glasgow

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The gothic turrets, chimneys and spires of the main Gilmorehill Campus buildings of Glasgow University. Designed by George Gilbert Scott and built in the second half of the 19th Century. By then, the universitt was already more than 400 years old.

#gothicarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowarchitecture #architecture #glasgowuniversity #glasgow

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The castle-like entrance to the Glasgow University Student Union building on University Avenue.

Designed by Alan McNaughton in a Free Scots Baronial style and constructed in 1930. Not everyone's student union of choice, but an imposing building none-the-less.

#glasgowbuildings #glasgowarchitecture #architecture #glasgowuniversity #guu #glasgow

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Today's animal from Glasgow's architecture is this wonderful little dragon nestled amongst the foliage around the entrance of what was originally the Anderston Free Chuch, but is now the Gillmorehill Centre of Glasgow University.

#animalsinarchitecture #architecture #animalsculpture #glasgowuniversity #stonework #dragon #animals #sculpture #glasgow

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Peter Nimmo · @Peternimmo
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An astonishing finding by researchers- 80% of male young have suffered a significant head injury at some point. This comes after concerns about in sport
news.stv.tv/scotland/80-of-you

#headinjury #offenders #glasgowuniversity

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This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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Knowledge anf Inspiration by Walter Pritchard. Created in the 1950s, this sculpture can be found on a wall above University Gardens in the west end of Glasgow. I must have been along that road many times, but never really noticed how lovely this sculpture is until yesterday.

#glasgowuniversity #publicart #glasgowsculpture #sculpture #glasgow

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This building is also reputedly the site of the last duel in Scotland in 1899 when two students fought with swords over who should become the next rector.

However, the lurid reports of the duel in a university magazine have been questioned in recent years and despite its place in university folklore, it's now uncertain whether it ever actually took place.

#glasgowarchitecture #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowhistory #glasgowuniversity #glasgow

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