Byres Road.
Right now.
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Getting ready for the cycling tomorrow...

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I can't be certain, but this looks like original acid-etched details on one of the windows of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's 1860s Eton Terrace in the Hillhead area of Glasgow.

If it is original, it's pretty impressive it's survived so long. If it's not, it's a very good imitation of Thomson's style.

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Hillhead High School in the west end of Glasgow.

Designed by E.G.Wylie and built in the 1920s. Despite being almost 100 years old, this is a remarkably modern-looking building. However, the details belie its true age, including the two-storey high pillasters and tripartite windows in the central section.

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The Hillhead Baptist Church in the West End of Glasgow. This rather wonderful Greek Revival style church was designed by Thomas Lennox Watson and has been a key landmark on the local area since it was built in 1883.

Despite its B-Listed status, it's currently threatened with demolition after developers removed its roof and left it open to the elements for a prolonged period of time.

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One of the terminal pavillions on Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Eton Terrace development in the west end of Glasgow. This development was built in 1865 amd has many of the classical features typically seen on his terraces.

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Love this decoration on 43 Oakfield Avenue in the Hillhead area of Glasgow. Just from this alone, you'd probably guess the building was designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, and you'd be right. It's part of his Eton Terrace development which was built in 1865.

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The magnificant and distinctive French Renaissance style clock tower on the former Cooper's Building on Great Western Road in the west end of Glasgow. Designed by R Duncan, it was built in 1886.

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Janefield Cottage, 49 Otago Street, Glasgow.

Overlooking the River Kelvin and dating from around 1840, this villa is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Hillhead. The style is Cottage Orné (decorative cottage) created as part of the Romantic Movement of the late 18th and early 19th Century, and it is a very uncommon style in Scotland. It is thought to have been designed by John Brash.

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The upper section of the Cresswell Street elevation of Hillhead Baptish Church in Glasgow. Designed by TL Watson in the Greek Revival Style and built in 1883, this B-Listed building appears to be largely abandoned and in a very poor state of repair.

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James Sellar's stunning French Gothic church on Observatory Road in the west end of Glasgow. Completed in 1876, it's modelled on the medieval Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.

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The magnificent main entrance to Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church in the west end of Glasgow. I paritcularly like the nested gothic arches around the doors and the massive wheel window above them.

Modelled on medieval Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, this church was designed by James Sellar and built in 1876.

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