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The World of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817-1875)

Dominic d'Angelo

Ongoing 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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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...

3 days ago

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...

10 days ago
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More on Rosslyn Terrace

Rosslyn Terrace in Strathbungo has appeared in previous Substack articles, ‘Greek’ Thomson’s papermakers’ and The ‘pernickety’ Brothers Orr. The former was in relation to the Mitchell Library’s stencils drawn on paper watermarked by W.S. Ho...

17 days ago
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‘Greek’ Thomson at Langbank

Woodside, from a 1920s postcard

The growth of the village of Langbank, on the southern banks of the Clyde east of Port Glasgow, really stems from March 1841 with the opening of the railway line between Glasgow and Greenock. Prior to this,...

24 days ago
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Roslin Place: undocumented Thomson

379-381 Sauchiehall Street, showing the join between the two tenements (Image: Google Maps)

Today’s tenement at 373–387 Sauchiehall Street started out as Roslin Terrace at Nos 227–243, a pair of tenements comprising double and single shops...

a month ago
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  • Dominic d'Angelo

    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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