Decorative metalwork on the Albert Bridge in Glasgow. Built in 1868 to a design by Bell and Miller, it's the only substantial wrought-iron arched bridge in Scotland.
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Decorative cast-iron air vent cover on the former National Bank of Scotland building in St Enoch Square in central Glasgow.
The newly decorated 1902 lamp base outside the Botanic Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. I love how this now looks.
Decorative ironwork time but this time combined with decorative stonework.
A theme of grey but very elegant.
Elsewhere in Galicia, much is made of the decorative potential of moulded cement but that tradition has a notable industrial slant.
Love this lion rampant on the gates of Òran Mór in the West End of Glasgow. Originally built as the Kelvinside Parish Church, it was converted into an entertainment venue in 2004. Òran Mór is Gaelic and can be translated as the Big Song or the Great Melody of Life.
This is one of four rather amazing cast iron lamp bases outside the former Dennistoun Public School (now St. Denis' Primary) in the East End of Glasgow.
The Kibble Palace, arguably Glasgow's finest example of Victorian iron work. Created by John Kibble, it was originally built at Coulport on the shores of Loch Long before being taken apart, moved to Glasgow and re-built at its current location in The city's Botanic Gardens in the 1870s.
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This was needed as in horse-drawn vehicles, the steering is essentially in the middle,and behind the 'engine' (i.e. the horses), making it much harder to turn tightly as the cart has a tendancy to cut the corner after the horses have turned into it.
A surviving metal kerb-protector on the corner of Wellington Street and St Vincent Lane in central Glasgow. This was designed to stop the kerbstones being worn away by the wheels of carts and also to help guide them into the narrow lanes between the buildings, so that they didn't damage them.
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Love the flower detail on these Victorian cast-iron railings on Hillhead Street in the West End of Glasgow.
Love this simple, but amusing, bit street art. It's on the Queen Margaret Drive railings for the Botanic Gardens in Glaagow, and I think it's by A Sign of Humour.
Love the squirrels and the dragons on the ornamental benches in the Kibble Palace glasshouse in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens.
Bootscrapers of Park Circus in the west end of Glasgow. Bootscrapers are very basic, functional item of metalwork, but I love all the different ways they've been made to look a bit more fancy.
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Barrhead Cooperative Society emblem on a cast iron drinking fountain in Cowan Park in Barrhead. Dated 1897, it was manufactured by the Sun Foundry in Glasgow.
In Viterbo Italy, an old wooden door with peeling green and blue paint sits in a stone archway, surrounded by a weathered orange and gray concrete wall. Intricate ironwork above the door adds a touch of elegance to the rustic facade.
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Love these metal railings outside a building on Glasgow University's Professors Square .
P&R Fleming and Co of Glasgow maker's plate on a 1910s metal lattice-work bridge in Victoria Park in Glasgow. The company was founded as an iron merchants in the early 1800s by brothers Peter and Robert Fleming, along with their brothers-in-Law William and Matthew Strang, with their original premises at 29 Argyle Street. By the 1860s, the company had expanded to cover metal-smithing, gas-fitting, and the making lattice-work bridges, such as this one.
Great guesses here! You all made me look again. I’m also seeing a giant God head in mountains with homes coming up too far and what looks like an unexploded rocket coming out of the head? And a lobster! #Flagstaff #Arizona #ironwork #battle #rusted #epic #DiabloBurger
On a Monday, I needed to do something a little more relaxing than chores and catching up on the news. Another find from my treasure hoard of images captured in Flagstaff last summer. The quest or battles of this decorative iron "drawing" seem to have different interpretations depending on what is going on in your world when you see it. My first thoughts went to Day of the Dead skeletons trying to outrun attacks. But then I wonder if the helmets and surreal images show Nazi villains. Your guess?
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Is it just me, or do these railings on Otago Street in Glasgow look a row of people standing with their arms over their heads?
