Thursday, October 26, 2006
Bus Tour of Glasgow - Photo Tour
glasgow college of commerce:
glasgow cathedral:
cathedral square:
high street:
trongate:
the winter gardens:
the people's palace:
the whistlin' kirk - pub named after first church in glasgow to have an organ
scotia bar - oldest in glasgow?
st. enoch centre:
stockwell street into argyle street
-stockwell street - comes from william wallace's war against the english, when they dumped bodies in the well.
-argyle street - named after some lord argyll but when it came to naming the street someone added an "e" by accident and it stuck.
bleak from bus:
same bleak walking past:
italian centre:
italian centre:
banner hanging in george square:
christmas lights - the symbols of the city:
city chambers:
bleak?
bleak:
"the armadillo" concert hall:
science centre:
tall ship:
the rotunda:
-there is one of these on either side of the river clyde, apparently they represent two ends of a tunnel beneath the river, which lowered material up and down using horse power.
arc bridge:
the rotunda again, and in the background, a new bridge across the river, which was built to link one side of the clyde to the new offices of the BBC on the other side.
the goat:
kelvingrove museum:
glasgow univesity/hunterain museum:
glasgow museum of transport:
sauchihall street well, tilted to the right due to subsidance:
cineworld:
-formerly the UGC cinema, one of the tallest cinemas in the world. situated in glasgow's "theatre district".
holiday inn:
-an old merchants house, with a boat on top to represent the connections round the world.
glasgow college of commerce:
glasgow cathedral:
cathedral square:
high street:
trongate:
the winter gardens:
the people's palace:
the whistlin' kirk - pub named after first church in glasgow to have an organ
scotia bar - oldest in glasgow?
st. enoch centre:
stockwell street into argyle street
-stockwell street - comes from william wallace's war against the english, when they dumped bodies in the well.
-argyle street - named after some lord argyll but when it came to naming the street someone added an "e" by accident and it stuck.
bleak from bus:
same bleak walking past:
italian centre:
italian centre:
banner hanging in george square:
christmas lights - the symbols of the city:
city chambers:
bleak?
bleak:
"the armadillo" concert hall:
science centre:
tall ship:
the rotunda:
-there is one of these on either side of the river clyde, apparently they represent two ends of a tunnel beneath the river, which lowered material up and down using horse power.
arc bridge:
the rotunda again, and in the background, a new bridge across the river, which was built to link one side of the clyde to the new offices of the BBC on the other side.
the goat:
kelvingrove museum:
glasgow univesity/hunterain museum:
glasgow museum of transport:
sauchihall street well, tilted to the right due to subsidance:
cineworld:
-formerly the UGC cinema, one of the tallest cinemas in the world. situated in glasgow's "theatre district".
holiday inn:
-an old merchants house, with a boat on top to represent the connections round the world.