Here's a little water tower in #Bitterfeld which is just as surprised as I am that my train is running into delays of 90 minutes (and counting). /sarcasm
Cart entrance to the former Kinning Park Colour Works on Milnpark Road in Glasgow, featuring the original 1890s doors and a fantastic polychromatic brickwork archway.
The entrance to Saint Rollox House in the Springburn area of Glasgow. Built in 1887 using the classic polychromatic brick style of Glasgow's industrial buildings, it was once the office for the Saint Rollox Railway Works.
The old market hall is in the midst of renovation, with the simple but attractive brickwork being joined by a festival of galvanised iron, in thin bars, louvres, flat and curved panels and trapezoidal supports, letting in lots of zebra-patterned light. Predominant access is via floating platforms.
This is a rather fine new building. Its emphasis is on simplicity. Almost all is very plain brickwork in stretcher bond, using a mix of colours which emulate chestnut. The windows are in plain openings, in a grid pattern, larger rectangles to the side, smaller squares in the middle.
The ends of the building are anomalous. At one end, circular balconies with white concrete ceiling 'tablets' and a white support column at the ground entrance. At the other end, small square windows not matching the inner ones.
The whole sits on a deep concrete plinth, with rectangular openings.
Despite how it looks, the company's name is indented into the brick rather than standing proud of its surface. Similar logos appear on many bricks, but are usually not visible when installed correctly (unlike this particular brick).
P&M Hurll brick used to repair an old wall in the Anderston area of Glasgow. This company was established around 1887 in Glenboig on the outskirts of Glasgow and continued until 1980. Building bricks like this one were made at the company's Garscadden Works in Drumchapel.
A ghost building on Robertson Street in Glasgow. I love all the different phases visible in the stone and brickwork, especially the window at the top right which is made from blonde sandstone and then has been half filled with red bricks and half with concrete blocks, presumably at different times. This effect may have taken between 100 and 150 years to create.
The polychromatic brick rear facade of the former John Inglis and Company tannery and leather warehouse building on Dyer's Lane in the East End of Glasgow. Built in 1876, this facade contrasts sharply with the much more decorative pale sandstone facades on Saint Andrew's Square and Turnbull Street.
I'll admit this is geeky, even for me, but I love this bit of brickwork I came across the other day in the Garnethill area of Glasgow. It's a glazed brick wall with a curved corner transitioning to a sharp right-angle mid-way through a single brick. The transition happens just above head height and my guess is that the lower curved profile is designed to reduce the risk of damage to the lower section by passing carts and other vehicles.
