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Putting together the final touches for the official opening later today of the new Govan-Partick Bridge in Glasgow.
My first look at the new Govan-Partick Bridge in its closed position, and its definitely looking good, but just a week before its official opening, one crucial question remains unanswered: What's its nickname going to be?
Modern Bridges of the Clyde: Squiggly Bridge (top left), Squinty Bridge (top right), Spiky Bridge (bottom left) and Swingy Bridge (bottom right). Not their real names, but they make for a nice alliterative, almost poetic, list!
The former Glasgow Savings Bank on Govan Road in Glasgow. Designed by Eric Sutherland and built in 1906, it featured tenement flats above the ground-floor bank premises, with a drying green on its flat roof and a wash house in the corner turret.
A surprising number of Glasgow's cast iron Victorian drinking fountains are infested with crocodiles, like this one at Govan Cross.
Memento Mori, or Reminders of Death, on a gravestone in the graveyard of the Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Particularly common on 18th Century Scottish gravestones, these were symbols such as skulls, crossbones, hour glasses, trumpets, skeletons and spades, associated with death. They are generally found on the reverse of the gravestove, with the main inscription on the other side.
This morning at the Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow.
I love the little dragons hidden in the stonework inside Govan Old Parish Church (and there's one on the outside, too!). Designed by Rowand Anderson, it was built in the 1880s.
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