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14 Jun, 15 tweets, 6 min read

Thomsonesque tenements, Mill Street Alloa by Adam Frame (1874) #Alloa /

Alloa Sheriff Court. Appeared here a few times. 1863-64 in French Gothic /

Doorway of Art Deco former cafe “Fusco’s” 1921/

Jacobean style building of 1926 by William Kerr; county motto “look about ye” above doorway /

Saint Mungo’s Catholic Church #Alloa (1960)

Former Liberal Club (1904) Mar Street #Alloa by William Kerr. Good stained glass by Oscar Paterson in the first floor Windows. Those were the days. Campbell-Bannerman was the local MP /

Alloa Tower (14th century in origin) seat of the Erskines of Mar it has lost its adjoining mansionhouse/

View to the Forth from #Alloa Tower /

Restored Ceiling in the #Alloa Tower /

Model of Alloa Tower with its 18th century mansionhouse ( destroyed by fire) to the right. Would have been impressive /

Doorway Alloa Tower/

Old Kirk (1680) and Mar & Kellie Mausoleum #Alloa /

House by Tobias Bauchop (1685) Kirkgate, #Alloa /

Detail of carving, said to be of ‘Auld Nick’ /

Original Mercat Cross of #Alloa by Bauchop (1690) ends.

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29 Mar

Lorraine Gardens, Dowanhill ( James Thomson 1890) #glasgowwestend /

Symmetrical double villa by David Barclay (1899) at Lorraine Road /

The end of Kensington Gate -also by David Barclay ( 1902-03) -a delightful, serpentine terrace with good stained glass/

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2 Dec 20

Lenzie is “a suburb of Glasgow although separated from that city by open country” ( Pevsner) which developed after a station was opened in 1842 ( this the station of 1900). The Victoria Road and Alexandra Road area has many fine villas in the style of Alexander Thomson. A thread.

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Warwick Croft c 1875 is “the only villa in Lenzie which, despite alterations, looks as if it might be authentic Thomson” ( Gavin Stamp, “Alexander’Greek’ Thomson”) @AThomsonSociety /

Another view of Craigard. If not by Thomson this must be one of Robert Turnbull’s best in Thomson’s manner, or based on an earlier plan./

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18 Sep 20

#Stirling Crawford’s Arcade / 1

Stirling Athenaeum built as town’s Merchant’s House, of 1816.

Stirling Municipal Buildings by Glasgow architect John Gaff Gillespie ( 1908, completed 1916)

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11 Sep 20

Taylor has, to my eye, an 18th century look, like a judge of that epoch.

Lord Eskgrove from my copy of Cockburn’s “Memorials of his Time”.

A Lord Braxfield story from the same book ( the last judge to speak broad Scots, or Scotch as Cockburn wrote).

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David Forrester

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30 Jul 20

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 /

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Thomsonian detail @AThomsonSociety You can see the top of Northpark Terrace in the background

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