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Glasgow busses are operated by several private companies, but the City Sightseeing Tour is perhaps the best way to see the city - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Killermont Street at Buchanan Bus Station - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Buchanan Bus Station - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Sauchiehall Street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Donald Dewar's statue outside the Royal Concert Hall in Sauchiehall Street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
George Square and City Chambers - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Magnificent interior of the City Chambers which featured in An Englishman Abroad (left). Crest of HMS DUKE OF YORK presented to the city which had adopted the battleship. The ship's bell was presented to the Duke of York School (now Lenana) in Nairobi, Kenya - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Standards of Imperial Linear Measures secured to the exterior of the City Chambers - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Buchanan Street (left); Hope Street (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Argyle Street under Central Station (left); (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Argyle Street looking towards the Trongate - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Contrasting architecture in the Trongate - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Trongate (left) and Italia above the Italian Centre viewed from Stockwell Street (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Italian Centre Piazza (left); classic Glasgow Police Box (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Rooftop of a tenement at Hope Street St Vincent Street (left); dome in George Square (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Fruit and vegetable stall in Argyle Street (left); Trongate (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Trongate and Merchant City - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The Tolbooth, London Road and Saltmarket (left); clothes dating back to forties and fifties at Vintage Clothing (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
; St Enoch Centre seen from Argyle Street (left); Queen Street and Argyle Street (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Queen Street, looking towards Argyle Street resembles Chicago's Canyon in miniature - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Gallery of Modern Art (above) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The Subway trains are remarkably small and run in opposite directions around a loop in opposite directions referred to the Inner and Outer Circles - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Modern and traditional architecture - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The Doulton Fountain in front of the People's Palace - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The Doulton Fountain is the largest terracotta fountain in the world and was designed to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Behind the People's Palace is the Winter Garden - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Nelson's Column on Glasgow Green (left); former tobacco factory (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Springburn, once famous for its locomotive works which exported all over the world - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
No sign today of the heavy industry that had once made Springburn so well known - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Typical housing viewed from the top deck of a Glasgow bus - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Sighthill and flats built as recently as the sixties await demolition, yet many city centre tenements are well over a hundred years old - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Glasgow, more than any other Scottish city, was redeveloped with the motor car in mind - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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