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Such 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.

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 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.

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.

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.