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?
#Flagstaff #Arizona #ironwork #battle #rusted #epic #DiabloBurger
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?
A wonderful lion pillaster on the combined drinking fountain and lamp in Dowanhill Park in the west end of Glasgow. It was made in 1903 by the MacFarlane and Co foundry in Possilpark, one of Scotland's most important manufacturer of ornamental iron work between 1850 and 1965.
Milton Damerel, Devon
Fine ironwork on the church door.
Love these ornate hinges on the 1860s former Foundry Boys Religious Society Church on Tharsis Street in the east of Glasgow.
The logo of Caledonian Railways on the ironwork outside of Glasgow's Central Station. This station was initially built for Caledonian Railways in the 1870s, and was extended in the early 1900s.
Such tramways should not be confused with the metal tramlines on which the city's trams once ran on. However, they're both part of the same rich seam of technological developments going back as far as Ancient Greece (where they were used a paved trackway to help move boats across the Isthmus of Corinth) from which tramways, tramlines and railway lines all evolved to help make wheeled transport more efficient.
An iron kerb protector and tramway on Waterloo Lane in central Glasgow. Designed to make it easier for horses to pull carts up hills on cobbled streets, these metal ones were an updated version for the older stone tramways, which can still be found on some Glasgow streets.
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Some views are meant to be discovered, not revealed.
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Love the almost Art Nouveau style font used for this monogram on the gates of the People's Palace on Glasgow Green. This builiding was designed by A.B. MacDonald and was constructed in the 1890s as a museum for the people of the city.
Dartmouth St Saviour, Devon
Original 1372 door refurbished 1631 with two leopards of the Plantagenets (one out of shot) and a tree of life in superb ironwork.
Bradstone Manor Devon
Beautiful studded oak porch door with latch and knocker. Excellent scarf repairs to the bottom of the door where it must have rotted from damp, adding to the charm.
Love this moustachioed fish on a cast iron lamp stand outside the former Queen's Halls on La Belle Place in the West End of Glasgow. Created by the Shotts Iron Works, like much of the decorative Victorian ironwork around Glasgow, its features have been smoothed out by the accumulated years of thick black paint. It would be great to see much of this cleaned off so the original intricate details below could once again be easily seen and appreciated.
A lion's foot on an old cast-iron lamp outide Trinity, the former Free Church Seminary, on Lynedoch Street in the Park District of Glasgow.
Is it just me, or does the gold paint on the spikes of these railings by the Necropolis in Glasgow make them look remarkably like half-peeled bananas?
