Mike Brown's Scotland

The Riverfront
Bells Brudge crosses the Clyde between the Science Centre and the "Armadillo"	Few artifacts remain from the Clyde's shipbuilding past - this is the Finnieston Crane, one of only four which still stand along the Clyde
View up the Clyde from Bell Bridge - Liam Murphy photo
The riverside walk passes under a number of bridges near Central Station	This was obviously originally one of the pilings of a railway bridge, now reused with a floating dock and gangway.
The last remaining ocean-going paddlewheel steamer, the Waverly goes "doon the watter" from Glasgow to Rothesay, among other destinations	Tradeston Bridge
The Glasgow Science Centre on the Clyde	"Run!"
Well, how many can you make?	Electrical generator or hamster wheel, take your pick...
A favorite part of the Museum of Transport is the recreated Glasgow street of 1895-1930, complete with shops and vehicles.
The museum specializes in vehicles made in Scotland, which might surprise visitors who didn't know about Scotland's history of car manufacture. Here, a 1928 Albion fire engine.	The Museum of Transport displays all kinds of ground transportation in a spectacular modern building. Where else can you find a locomotive peeping out of a balcony?
Many vehicles are displayed as wall hangings.
The Hillman Imp was made in Scotland as an inexpensive British alternative to continental or Japanese cars.	The three-wheel AC "Wee Bluey" was marketed as a learner's car. Young drivers could drive a Bluey, as long as they did not carry passengers. Of course cough that never happened...
The Tall Ship Glenlee is moored in the River Clyde outside the Museum of Transport
The poop deck featured a manually powered foghorn - a chance to work off some energy and make a very loud annoying noise - what could be better?

Huge diesel engines fill the Engine Room. Push the button to hear them run...	The huge cargo hold of the Glenlee
Downtown Glasgow
Princes Square Mall appears on the outside to be a nondescript row house (below) - ride an escalator located behind the front door, and when you reach the top, it opens up into a huge indoor mall.
Entrance to Princes Square Mall	Anybody want to buy a TARDIS? It's bigger on the inside...
Clydeside Distillery	The Merchant City area is located to the east of Buchanan Street. It's named after the homes of merchants which once filled the area. Today, it's a shopping area.
The Tollbooth Steeple and Clocktower on Trongate	The 1628 steeple is all that remains of the Tron Kirk on Trongate. The rest of the church burned down in 1793.
Traffic-free Buchanan Street forms the shopping heart of Glasgow.
The Argyll Arcade is a Victorian shopping mall, still complete with top-hatted ushers	This TARDIS is on Buchanan Street. It, too, is bigger on the inside...
Kelvingrove
Kelvingrove Museum's collections cover an incredibly wide range of topics from natural history to art. This hall shows the similarities between natural and man-made objects, so of course there's a Spitfire hanging among the birds.
	One hall is filled with hanging heads. The work is entitled "Expressions".
The collection at Kelvingrove can only be described as "quirky".	In the entrance hall there's a "Mini Museum" aimed at kids. The display in 2023 was about body parts - the "feet" section included these objects which wouldn't normally be expected to have feet, which was the whole point.
The Kelvin River gives its name to the district.	Glasgow has one of the oldest subway systems in Europe, a circular route with trains running clockwise and anti-clockwise. Originally it was a cable-drawn system like San Francisco's cable cars.
The Glasgow Mural Trail The Glasgow Mural Trail was started in 2008. Today, it links about 30 murals around the city of Glasgow. For information on the trail, see their website https://www.citycentremuraltrail.co.uk/
Mural commemorating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday in 2017.	"Honey, I shrunk the kids" by artist Smug
The "Shadow Puppets" mural has, sadly, been nearly obliterated by graffiti. The mural starts with a series of hands and the shadows they cast on the wall...	... ending with a shadow of a rabbit... cast by a real rabbit.
Spaceman mural on Trongate	St. Thenue mural, next to the Air BnB we stayed at. St. Thenue and St. Mungo were the legendary founders of Glasgow.
"As Good as Gold" - off Buchanan Street - Liam Murphy photo	"Dr. Connolly, I presume?" - on the south side of the Clyde near the Science Centre
Heron mural near the Partick Subway station	"The World's Most Economical Taxi" by the muralist "Rouge 1"
Glasgow Cathedral Area
Glasgow Cathedral	The Necropolis - a huge Victorian cemetery complex with thousands of monuments.
St. Mungo's Museum of Religious Life - "A Curious Exhibition" displays an odd assortment of objects from the collections of many different Glasgow museums, with explanations of why the objects were important to the Glaswegians who selected them.	St. Mungo's regular collection contains many artifacts related to religion and religious life.

Glasgow

The Riverfront

Downtown Glasgow

Kelvingrove

The Glasgow Mural Trail

Glasgow Cathedral Area