Love this stained glass above the entrance to Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. This building started its life as a warehouse before being converted into the La Scala cinema in 1912 by Duff and McKissack. As far as I can work out, the stained glass dates from this original conversion.

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Commercial building on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Originally built in 1903 as a furniture shop for James Simpson and Sons Cabinetmakers and Upholsterers. It was most likely designed by John Keppie of Honeyman, Keppie, MacKintosh.

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A Hayward Brothers Prismatic Cellar Light set into the pavement of Sauchiehall Street in the west end of Glasgow. Patented in 1885, the glass prisms mounted in the iron frame shone light into otherwise dark recesses of cellars. This is the most complete one I've found in Glasgow and it has no missing prisms.

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Police box on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. While we now think of police boxes as being blue, in Glasgow red was the traditional colour.

In the days before radios and mobile phones, these boxes allowed patrolling officers to keep in touch with the local station as well as allowing members of the public to contact both the police and the fire bridage in case of an emergency.

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Ghost building on Renfrew Lane in Glasgow. I love how the chimney of this building looks like it was extended upwards when the neighbouring building was constructed. I think this was one of the buildings destroyed in the Sauchiehall Street fire of March 2018.

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The grand entrance to the former La Scala cinema on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. This building was originally a warehouse, but like a surprsingly large number of other buildings on the same street, it was converted into a cinema at the start of the 20th Century. It opened in 1912 and closed in 1984. It has been home to a Waterstones bookshop since the 1990s.

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Albany Chambers, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.

Designed by J.J. Burnet in a French Renaissance style and built in the 1890s as a neighbour to Charing Cross Mansions, which was also designed by Burnet in a similar style a few years earlier.

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The unmistakeable lines of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Built in an Graeco-Egyptian style in 1865, the modern shop fronts on the ground floor make this building all to easy to overlook, but it's a thing of subtle beauty, especially the columns between the windows on the second floor.

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Every now and then you spot something really quirky in Glasgow's architecture, like this pediment over a doorway on Sauchiehall Street with a exceedingly deep cut-out so that it doesn't block the light coming into the window. The architect was clearly determined to have a pediment there at all costs.

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This was always one of my favourite cinemas in Glasgow when I was a teenager, and also one of my favourite music venues in the city as an adult.

This was also the first place a film was publicly shown in Glasgow in 1896 (when it was still an ice rink).

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The entrance to the O2 ABC Music Venue on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.

This building started life as an entertainment venue called the Diorama in 1875. It then became the Panorama (1878), Hubner's Ice Skating Palace (1885), Hengler's Circus (1904), the Waldorf Palace dance hall (1927) and a cinema in 1929. It became a music venue in the 2000s, but has been closed since 2018 when it was badly damaged in a fire.

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The building on Sauchiehall Street which Harmony is on was owned by Ewing's brother, which may explain why such an impressiive sculpture is on what might be considered quite a minor building.

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This winged figure high on a building above Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow is called Harmony. It was created by James Alexander Ewing in the 1890s.

If you think you've seen a similar figure elsewhere in the city, you're right, Ewing also sculpted the Spirit of Commerce and Industry, also known as the Angel of the South, at Paisley Road Toll.

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Originally constructed as a warehouse in 1898, this building at 516 Sauchiehall Street was redeveloped as Glasgow's first purpose-built cinema, opening in 1910 as the Charing Cross Electric Theatre. It closed in 1926 and was later turned into the Locamo Ballroom.

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The Art Deco brilliance of the former Beresford Hotel on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.

Built to provide accommodation for the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938, this was the tallest building built in the city in the interwar years and is considered by some to be Glasgow's first skyscraper.

It was designed by William Beresford Inglis, who later went on the manage and own the hotel.

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Early morning on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.

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Glasgow Style design detail on the front of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Willow Tearooms on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.

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