Saint Mungo's Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow. It was built in 1841 in an Italianate Gothic style from a design by George Goldie.

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If you look carefully at the iron guard on the bridge pier on the left of this picture, you can see where the ropes used to pull the barges have cut into it.

Thanks to Centre-Ground on Twitter for bringing this interesting remnant from the past to my attention.

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A fragment of the old Monkland Canal passing under Castle Street in Glasgow.

Designed by James Watt, the Monkland Canal was completed in 1794 and was built to bring coal from the mines around Monklands into Glasgow. Most of it was filled in on the 1970s when the M8 motoway was built on top of it, but small fragments like this remain.

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The Pinkston Basin in the North of Glasgow. At one time this formed the junction between the Forth and Clyde Canal (completed 1792) and the Monkland Canal (completed in 1794). The Monkland Canal has now mostly been filled in and replaced by the M8 motorway.

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A plaque marking the birthplace of Charles Rennie MacKintosh, probably Glasgow's most famous architect, in the Townhead area of the city in June 1868. In the 1890s, MacKintosh returned to the area to design the Saint Martyr's school which would have been visible from the tenement where he was born. While the school remains, the tenement itself is now long gone.

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The Sighthill Bridge linking Sighthill and Townhead across the M8 in Glasgow or, as it has inevitably been nicknamed, the Rusty Bridge.

Today was the first time I'd visited it, and I have to say I love everything about it, even down to the colour, which was positively glowing the sunshine.

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Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Martyr's School in Townhead, Glasgow, as seen from Castle Street.

Built in 1895 for the Glasgow School Board, it was built using snecked red sandstone blocks and Glasgow-style details to give it a distinctive appearance.

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