LomondLad

By LomondLad

East End architecture

There's an amazing variety of architecture in Glasgow, and it's always worth looking up at buildings rather than keeping your sight at ground or eye level.
These images are of buildings around the Parkhead Cross junction where Duke Street meets Gallowgate, which in turn joins Tollcross Road.

Left: Tenement building on corner of Duke Street & Gallowgate - Parkhead Cross. Built 1902.
Centre, top: Parkhead Library, corner of Tollcross Road & Helenvale Street - a Carnegie Library (built 1906 with money donated by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie)
Centre, bottom: Parkhead Public Baths & Washhouse, Tollcross Road - built 1905 beside the library. The washhouses (known as steamies) were where women would go to socialise and wash their laundry every week; as launderettes and washing machines grew in popularity, use of the traditional Glasgow steamie declined.
Right: Angel sculpture by Kellock Brown, on top of the dome of Parkhead Library.

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