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This Is My GlasgowThis is an interesting comparison between Victorian railings which have been stripped of the many layers of paint which once covered them, and the neighbouring ones where it hasn't. It's amazing how much of the crisp, fine detail is hidden by more than a century's built-up of thick paint. This is on Queen's Drive on the Southside of Glasgow.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#railings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/queenspark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#queenspark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/victorianrailings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#victorianrailings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railingresoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#railingresoration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironrailings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironrailings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecturephotography</a>

This Is My GlasgowA Grahamston Iron Company drain cover on the grounds of the Glasgow Vet School at Garscube in the west of Glasgow. Grahamston Iron Company was founded in Falkirk by William Thomson Mitchell in 1868, and went into liquidation in 1993.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/falkirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#falkirk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/draincover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#draincover</a>

This Is My GlasgowAnother wonderful example of decorative ironwork from the 1880s former Savings Bank on Bridge Street in Glasgow. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/laurieston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#laurieston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecturephotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/decorativeironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decorativeironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metalwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metalwork</a>

This Is My GlasgowDecorative metalwork on the Albert Bridge in Glasgow. Built in 1868 to a design by Bell and Miller, it's the only substantial wrought-iron arched bridge in Scotland.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bridges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bridges</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metalwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metalwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/decorativemetalwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decorativemetalwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/albertbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#albertbridge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecturephotography</a>

LionelBDecorative ironwork time but this time combined with decorative stonework. A theme of grey but very elegant. Elsewhere in Galicia, much is made of the decorative potential of moulded cement but that tradition has a notable industrial slant.<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/wroughtiron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wroughtiron</a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/galicia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#galicia</a>

This Is My GlasgowThe Kibble Palace, arguably Glasgow's finest example of Victorian iron work. Created by John Kibble, it was originally built at Coulport on the shores of Loch Long before being taken apart, moved to Glasgow and re-built at its current location in The city's Botanic Gardens in the 1870s.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecturephotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kibblepalace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kibblepalace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowbotanicgardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgowbotanicgardens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/victorianarchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#victorianarchitecture</a>

This Is My GlasgowThis was needed as in horse-drawn vehicles, the steering is essentially in the middle,and behind the 'engine' (i.e. the horses), making it much harder to turn tightly as the cart has a tendancy to cut the corner after the horses have turned into it.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kerbprotector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kerbprotector</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgowhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/victorianglasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#victorianglasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/edwardianglasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#edwardianglasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/streetfurniture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#streetfurniture</a>

This Is My GlasgowA surviving metal kerb-protector on the corner of Wellington Street and St Vincent Lane in central Glasgow. This was designed to stop the kerbstones being worn away by the wheels of carts and also to help guide them into the narrow lanes between the buildings, so that they didn't damage them. Cont./<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kerbprotector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kerbprotector</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgowhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/victorianglasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#victorianglasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/edwardianglasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#edwardianglasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/streetfurniture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#streetfurniture</a>

This Is My GlasgowLove the flower detail on these Victorian cast-iron railings on Hillhead Street in the West End of Glasgow.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/hillhead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hillhead</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#railings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/decorativeironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decorativeironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecturephotography</a>

This Is My GlasgowLove this simple, but amusing, bit street art. It's on the Queen Margaret Drive railings for the Botanic Gardens in Glaagow, and I think it's by A Sign of Humour. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/streetart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#streetart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowstreetart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgowstreetart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/botanicgardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#botanicgardens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#railings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a>

This Is My GlasgowBootscrapers of Park Circus in the west end of Glasgow. Bootscrapers are very basic, functional item of metalwork, but I love all the different ways they've been made to look a bit more fancy. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bootscraper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bootscraper</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metalwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metalwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/parkcircus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#parkcircus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecturephotography</a>

Joan CarrollIn Viterbo Italy, an old wooden door with peeling green and blue paint sits in a stone archway, surrounded by a weathered orange and gray concrete wall. Intricate ironwork above the door adds a touch of elegance to the rustic facade.<a href="https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/distressed-door-viterbo-italy-joan-carroll.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/distressed-door-viterbo-italy-joan-carroll.html</a><a href="https://photog.social/tags/viterbo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#viterbo</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#italy</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/door" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#door</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/distressed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#distressed</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/weathered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weathered</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/wornout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wornout</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arch</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/archway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#archway</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/worn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worn</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/wood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wood</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/textures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textures</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/BuyIntoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/AYearForArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/artforsale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artforsale</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/wallartforsale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wallartforsale</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/giftideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#giftideas</a> <a href="https://photog.social/@joancarroll" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@joancarroll</a>

This Is My GlasgowP&R Fleming and Co of Glasgow maker's plate on a 1910s metal lattice-work bridge in Victoria Park in Glasgow. The company was founded as an iron merchants in the early 1800s by brothers Peter and Robert Fleming, along with their brothers-in-Law William and Matthew Strang, with their original premises at 29 Argyle Street. By the 1860s, the company had expanded to cover metal-smithing, gas-fitting, and the making lattice-work bridges, such as this one.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/victoriapark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#victoriapark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a>

cobaltOn a Monday, I needed to do something a little more relaxing than chores and catching up on the news. Another find from my treasure hoard of images captured in Flagstaff last summer. The quest or battles of this decorative iron "drawing" seem to have different interpretations depending on what is going on in your world when you see it. My first thoughts went to Day of the Dead skeletons trying to outrun attacks. But then I wonder if the helmets and surreal images show Nazi villains. Your guess? <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Flagstaff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Flagstaff</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arizona</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/battle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#battle</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/rusted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rusted</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/epic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#epic</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DiabloBurger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiabloBurger</a>

This Is My GlasgowIs it just me, or do these railings on Otago Street in Glasgow look a row of people standing with their arms over their heads?<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metalwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metalwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#railings</a>

Dr Helen WilsonDartington, Devon, South porch door<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ironwork</a>

This Is My GlasgowSuch tramways should not be confused with the metal tramlines on which the city's trams once ran on. However, they're both part of the same rich seam of technological developments going back as far as Ancient Greece (where they were used a paved trackway to help move boats across the Isthmus of Cornith) from which tramways, tramlines and railway lines all evolved to help make wheeled transport more efficient.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgowhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tramway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tramway</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kerbprotector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kerbprotector</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railwayhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#railwayhistory</a>

This Is My GlasgowAn iron kerb protector and tramway on Waterloo Lane in central Glasgow. Designed to make it easier for horses to pull carts up hills on cobbled streets, these metal ones were an updated version for the older stone tramways, which can still be found on some Glasgow streets. Cont./<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgowhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tramway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tramway</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/kerbprotector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kerbprotector</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railwayhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#railwayhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metaltramway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metaltramway</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/trams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trams</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/streets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#streets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowstreets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgowstreets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/streetlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#streetlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/streetphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#streetphotography</a>

Dr Helen WilsonBradstone Manor Devon Beautiful studded oak porch door with latch and knocker. Excellent scarf repairs to the bottom of the door where it must have rotted from damp, adding to the charm.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Woodwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Woodwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oak</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ironwork</a>

This Is My GlasgowIs it just me, or does the gold paint on the spikes of these railings by the Necropolis in Glasgow make them look remarkably like half-peeled bananas? <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glasgow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ironwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ironwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/necropolis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#necropolis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bananas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bananas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/railings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#railings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/keepglasgowweird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#keepglasgowweird</a>

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