Love these ornate hinges on the 1860s former Foundry Boys Religious Society Church on Tharsis Street in the east of Glasgow.

An 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.

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Love the almost Art Nouveau style font used for this monogram on the gates of the People's Palace on Glasgow Green. This builiding was designed by A.B. MacDonald and was constructed in the 1890s as a museum for the people of the city.

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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.

Love this moustachioed fish on a cast iron lamp stand outside the former Queen's Halls on La Belle Place in the West End of Glasgow. Created by the Shotts Iron Works, like much of the decorative Victorian ironwork around Glasgow, its features have been smoothed out by the accumulated years of thick black paint. It would be great to see much of this cleaned off so the original intricate details below could once again be easily seen and appreciated.

Is it just me, or does the gold paint on spikes of these railings by the Necropolis in Glasgow make them look remarkably like half-peeled bananas?

The Ca' d'Oro on Gordon Street in Glasgow, one of the most distinctive and unique buildings in its city centre. Designed by John Honeyman in a Venetian Renaissance style, it was built as a furniture warehouse in 1872. The ground floor of the facade is made of stone, while the upper sections are cast iron.

Love this style of bootscraper from outside a townhouse on Hill Street in the Garnethill area of Glasgow. The exact same bootscrapers can also be found outside 10 Downing Street in London (and you can often see them on the background during news conferences and interviews carried out on the street outside - and yes, I'm geeky enough to notice such things!).

Intertwined sea monsters on the top of the Saracen Fountain in Alexandra Park in Glasgow. Designed by David Watson Stevenson and made by Walter MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry in Possilpark, this cast iron fountain was created for the 1901Glasgow International Exhibition in Kelvingrove Park. At the end of the festival it was removed and re-erected in Alexandra Park in 1914.

A cast iron clock in Victoria Park in Glasgow. Created by Alexander and Son, it donated by William Gordon Oswald in 1888 for use in what was then a new park. The park itself was laid out in 1886 on land gifted to the Burgh of Partick by William's father, James Gordon Oswald of Scotstoun.

Something really weird I noticed today: the gates at the southern entrance to Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park appear to feature the moustache of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, one of the city's greatest architects.

Some gratuitous decorative ironwork for you.

Some rather wonderful decorative ironwork outside an 1850s Classical townhouse on Woodlands Terrace in the West End of Glasgow.

Love the little crocodiles in the canopy of the Govan Cross Fountain in Glasgow. Made at the Denny Iron Works in 1884 by Cruikshanks and Company, it's dedicated to John Aitkin, the first medical officer of health for the Burgh of Govan. This drinking fountain is not unique in having crocodiles in its canopy, and identical crocs can be found in at least two other Glasgow drinking fountains.

I know I've posted this dragon before, but it's so cute, I couldn't resist posting it again. It can be found on the 1902 Art Nouveau style Miller and Lang Print Works at 50 Darnley Street in the Pollokshields area Glasgow, and by far it's my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in the city.

The magnificently over-the-top and somewhat bizarre Grand Central Fountain in Fountain Gardens in Paisley. Created in 1868 by Glasgow's Sun Foundry for the industrialist Thomas Coats, it is possibly my favourite fountain in the world. And, yes that is a near-life sized walrus in the foreground!

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Until today, I never noticed quite how alien-looking the ironwork surrounding the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow is - almost like some sort of weird romaine lettuce-martian hybrid!