The World of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817-1875)
Dominic d'AngeloOngoing research into the world and life of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, the 19th-century Scottish architect, covering the buildings he designed, the world in which he lived, those he knew, influenced and was influenced by.
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Borrowed knowledge: ‘The arch never sleeps’
Pollok Academy in 1959 (Image: Historic Environment Scotland)
An often-quoted statement from ‘Greek’ Thomson’s Haldane Lectures of 1874 is “the arch never sleeps”, usually accompanied by a second statement that sometime during Thomson’s ca...
The holiday Thomson never took
In late 1874 Alexander Thomson’s health was getting worse. What was proposed was a trip to the warmer climes of Italy. But how was he to get there?
There were options: by ship from Glasgow, by train to Liverpool and thence to the Mediterra...
Charles Hutcheson: linen merchant and banker
Gavin Stamp’s article in The Alexander Thomson Society Newsletter, ‘Friends indeed: Robert Foote and Charles Hutcheson’,1 looked at the connections between Hutcheson, a Glasgow merchant, and Robert Foote, the architect who first took on Ale...
Thomson’s Govan Street Church
The entrance to the former Chalmers Free Church in 1938, after Patrick Shaw died from a stabbing (the sand marking where he collapsed and died)
We know relatively little of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s smallest Glasgow church, the Chalmers...
Demolishing the Old College
A sketch of the entrance to the Old College when the Fore Hall was in use as a railway station
Articles about the transfer of Glasgow University from its old ‘College’ site in the High Street to Gilmorehill tend to focus on 1870, the year...
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Conducting ongoing research into the life and times of the Scottish architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817-1875). Not a biography so much as placing him in context.
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