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There’s a slight dispute as to whether these ‘60 steps’ from Queen Margaret Place to Kelvinside Terrace and relevant retaining wall of 1972 were by Alexander Thomson, although most of the experts are clear enough. The designs look like Thomson to me. #glasgowwestend /
The view down /
Thomsonian detail @AThomsonSociety You can see the top of Northpark Terrace in the background
Looking up at the retaining wall
Close up/
Faux door in the resting wall /
The view across the Kelvin once spanned by Walker’s Bridge, demolished 1970. In the middle, above the new build in Hillhead, Thomson’s Northpark Terrace/
Retaining wall of course
An old postcard I have showing (top left) Kelvinside Terrace etc held up by the Thomson retaining wall and Walker’s Bridge spanning the River Kelvin.
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