Waverley Picture House, 18 Moss Side Rd – 1971
Photo: ScottishCinemas.org.uk
The Waverley Picture House was designed by Watson, Salmond & Gray for Shawlands Picture House Ltd and opened on 25th December 1922. The building is finished in red sandstone but its most prominent...
Commercial Bank of Scotland, 113-115 Buchanan St – 1938
Photo (C5580): Sourced from Virtual Mitchell and reproduced with the kind permission of Glasgow City Archives.
A. Sydney Mitchell and George Wilson's 1886 extension to David Rhind's earlier Commercial Bank of Scotland (1854-7) stands...
14-34 Kilmarnock Rd – 1939
Photo (C6336): Sourced from Virtual Mitchell and reproduced with the kind permission of Glasgow City Archives.
Shawlands Cross (Crossmyloof Mansions) – c1900
A view looking south west to Shawlands Cross. The distinctive wedge shape of Crossmyloof Mansions at the junction of Kilmarnock and Pollokshaws Roads is a familiar sight to most South Siders, not least because...
Park Circus – Trinity College – Park Church – Various
Two sunny days separated by 150 years. The three towers of Charles Wilson's striking mid-Victorian former Free Church College peek out from behind the now orphaned tower of Park Church in our first...
Sauchiehall St – Lyric Theatre – Early c20th
We're looking west along Sauchiehall St from the corner of Renfield St in this early 20th century postcard view. On the right is the intricate cast iron entrance canopy of the Lyric theatre, while...
White Elephant Cinema, 42 Kilmarnock Rd – c1950
Photo: The Herald
The White Elephant cinema was designed by architect Harry Barnes and opened its doors in 1927. It was commissioned by renowned showman and eccentric A.E. Pickard, father of the Britannia Panopticon music...
68-74 Buchanan Street – 1938
Photo (C5620): Sourced from Virtual Mitchell and reproduced with the kind permission of Glasgow City Archives.
With something as substantial as a building you'd think there will always be plenty of evidence as to its...
Commercial Bank of Scotland, Bothwell Street – 1935
Photo (C5513): Sourced from Virtual Mitchell and reproduced with the kind permission of Glasgow City Archives.
A solitary policeman directs non-existent traffic in this c1935 view of James Miller's 1934 Commercial Bank of Scotland. These...
