A question I’ve been asked many times on here is what demolished buildings do I consider Glasgow’s greatest loss?

It’s a question I really struggle to give an answer, with such an embarrassment of demolished riches just where do you start… 🥴 This thread would run into hundreds of tweets were I to list all the individual buildings that have been demolished and that I think were significant in their way, and not all were recent casualties. Nevertheless, here goes an attempt to give an answer… *gulp

So, the People’s Palace on Glasgow Green is again being bandied about like a heritage bladder on the proverbial stick used to beat the SNP with.

The politics aside, lets take a look at the history and condition of the People’s Palace Winter Garden.

Thread 👇 The building has an interesting history (of course I’d say that :P ) which the old Glasgow Green Heritage Trail does a good job of covering, though I’ll probably visit it in another thread later as part of a larger history.

You can view the Trail here:

glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.a…

@dickebuerste53 @GdTenementGuide Thats a BIG question that really deserves a thesis to give a proper answer. The primary factor in why Scotland has tenements & England less so is down to the difference in legal definitions of property ownership. Scots law follows Roman law in that ownership is an absolute right @dickebuerste53 @GdTenementGuide That is, you either own it or you don’t. In England you don’t have to prove absolute ownership, just that your case is better than anyone else’s. How that translates into tenements over terraces is a result of who owned what land and to what extent they developed it.

1.A potted development history of Tollcross Park, Tollcross House & Winter Garden in Glasgow's east end.

2.Tollcross Park is bounded by ancient village of Shettleston to the north and Tollcross to the south. As with so many of the city's great municipal parks it was formed from a country estate that found itself in an increasingly urban and industrialised situation.

1840s map:

Following on from my previous thread where I laid out my thoughts on the future of the Mackintosh building at Glasgow School of Art it might be useful to address some of the points raised in the various discussions that have taken place surrounding it

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The previous thread was only ever intended as my initial reaction to MackFire2, in absence of anything more substantial than the shared shock and grief. It inadvertently became a wider look at historic building management, development practices & statutory body responsibilities

Some thoughts on the revised planning application for the Custom House on Clyde St #Glasgow.

You can view it here: publicaccess.glasgow.gov.uk/online-applica…

Image by Chris Firth via flickr.com/photos/migrand… Dating to 1840 the Custom House is one of the oldest surviving buildings on the Clyde as it flows through Glasgow. It has been some years since it performed its original function, latterly used by the PF & then as offices, it has been empty for around a decade now.

Some thoughts on the future of the Mackintosh Building at Glasgow School of Art...

The building has been gutted, literally. Some parts are in danger of impending collapse and will have to be taken down. It will be difficult to achieve this safely & there is a high probability ...that other parts, if not whole sections - if not the entire structure - will have to be demolished in order to make internal parts safely accessible.

This could mean complete demolition of the entire block encompassing the Mack, the ABC venue and the adjoining site.

Photographer #RaymondDepardon visited #Glasgow in 1980 on assignment from the Sunday Times. The job was to photograph affluence & poverty, neither were something Glasgow was short of. But the affluence of Glasgow in 1980 was discreet, largely retreated to neighbouring suburbs. This once metropolis had torn - and was continuing to tear- itself apart. The brick and ashlar edifices that lined the gridded streets, the great architectural baubles and trinkets that two centuries of commerce & industry had built were disappearing. So too were its people.

A stroll along the serpentine walk on #GlasgowGreen some time between 1810 and 1820. Cattle can be seen grazing in the park while folk work and play on the beach A wooden footbridge marks the spot at the foot of a recently extended Saltmarket where the current Albert Bridge stands. The original 14th century Glasgow Bridge stands behind it and would be replaced in the coming decades.