Kelvinbridge

Kelvinbridge is part of the Hillhead / West End area really I suppose,  but is a real hub of an area so deserves a separate mensh. This is the view looking down Gt Western Rd into town. . .

. . .and this is the view looking up Gt Western Rd, into the west

Path down to the river Kelvin and Kelvinbridge Undergrouns

Caledonian Mansions

This used to be a popular and long-established ironmongers - George's - which was taken over a by a nice Sikh family for a while and  has now become a sort of boutiquey place - also run by nice people, must be something about the shop. The new people found the sign above under the later accretions 

Publish Post

Hyndland

As Wiki says, Hyndland is a 'prime residential area in the fashionable West End' of the city.  This is where footballers who cannot quite afford the big country hoose live, as do  head teachers on their second marriages,  Glasgow Uni lecturers and the occasional drug lord. All very douce on the surface, with a tiny hint of Taggart  underneath. see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyndland

See also Hillhead and West End.

One Devonshire Gardens, a decidedly upmarket hotel with  Scotland's most famous restaurant. This is where Edinburgh advocates eat when they have to come to Glasgow, and is where Bob Dylan stays when he comes to town

Gt Western Rd - the road out of the city

A wee row of shops on Hyndland Rd. Note the two wee Scotties. . .

. . .good boys waiting for mummy while she gets People's Friend - the mag for Scots ladies of all classes

Hyndland Bowling Club

Clarence Drive

Clarence Drive again 

Clarence Lane: as with many of the wealthier parts of the city, many Hyndland  lanes have a fur-coat-and-nae-knickers look about them. If this lane was in Govanhill, passers-by would doubtless tut-tut about Roma and self-respect

An icy day this side of Gt Western Terrace. . .

. . .quite nice this side however

Hunterian Museum

The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow is Scotland's oldest public museum, and is a vibrant link with the Scottish Enlightenment. It was founded to house the collection of the anatomist William Hunter (1718-83) and opened in 1807. See

www.hunterian.gla.ac.u

The Hunterian has a huge collection of Roman artefacts: altars, tombstones and milestones from the most northerly outpost of the Roman Empire, the Antonine Wall

Alexander 'Greek' Thomson

Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817-1875) was one of the world' greatest architects and is perhaps the most remarkable example of a great architect unhonoured in his own country, indeed in his own city,  as the photographs below show only too well. Thomson was born in Balfron, just north of Glasgow,  and all his work is in Glasgow. You can find photographs and descriptions of his astounding buildings at the following websites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Thomson

www.greekthomson.org.uk

www.e-architect.co.uk/architects/greek_thomson.htm

This is the magnificent ruin of his Caledonia Rd church. Seehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3305770/Making-the-grade-Caledonia-Road-church-Glasgow.html
See also the Gorbals entry -
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/04/gorbals.html

Approaching the rawer part of the Gorbals (see main entry, link above)

This is the beautiful Walmer Crescent in Cessnock. See
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/09/bellahouston-park-2-after-pope-is-over.html
and
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/05/cessnock-kinning-park.html