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This Is My Glasgow<p>By the 1940s, 20 million packets, all made in this factory, were being sold each year around the world. In the 1970s, they ramped up their advertsing with an advert featuring the Miseries, cartoon characters drawn by Roger Hargreeves, the creator of the Mr Men, and featuring the slogan 'Askit fights the Miseries'. Running unchanged until the mid-1990s, this was one of Britain's longest running and most successful advertaing campaigns. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/possilpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>possilpark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/askit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askit</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>The former Askit factory on Saracen Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. Designed by William B. Whitie, it was built in the 1930s. Invented by the Glasweigian pharmacist Adam Laidlaw in the late 1890s, Askit Powder contained a mix aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine, and was sold as a cure-all for many types of minor ailments such as headaches and colds. </p><p>Cont./</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/possilpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>possilpark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/askit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/askitfightsthemiseries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askitfightsthemiseries</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>This collection of rather weird and wonderful sculpted heads are carved onto the corbels of decorative arches over the entrances to a series of tenement closes on Killearn Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. As far as I know they're unique and I've not come across any simlar ones on other tenements elsewhere in the city (yet!). </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/grotesques" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grotesques</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/greenman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tenement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tenement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowtenements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowtenements</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/possilpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>possilpark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecturephotography</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>Love this decorative carving on the corbel of a tenement oriel window on Saracen Street in Possilpark. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/possilpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>possilpark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowbuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowbuildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/stonework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stonework</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tenement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tenement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowtenement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowtenement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecturephotography</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>The former Cowlairs Cooperative Society building on Saracen Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/possilpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>possilpark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowbuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowbuildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cooperativesociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooperativesociety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/saracenstreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saracenstreet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecturephotography</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>A rather magnificent curving 1870s blonde sandstone tenement building on Balmore Road in the Possil Park area of Glasgow. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/possilpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>possilpark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowbuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowbuildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tenement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tenement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowtenement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowtenement</span></a></p>
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