Camphill Gate

ALT This is a view down the central square stairwell in the huge Camphill Gate tenement in Glasgow’s Shawlands neighbourhood. People are crowded onto the stone stairs leaning on the chequerboard wally tiles listening to the tour of this fascinating tenement.

ALT This is the notice on the second floor at the door to Flat 2/2 explaining that this where the young soldier Robert Glasse Knox lived prior to dying of his wounds received on 3rd May 1915 at Gallipoli in World War 1.

ALT Seen against the chequerboard green Wally tiles, this is the navy blue front door to Flat 2/2 in Camphill Gate where the young soldier Robert Glasse Knox lived prior to dying of his wounds received on 3rd May 1915 at Gallipoli in World War 1.

ALT This is the original brass art nouveau front door handle, escutcheon and door bell to the navy blue front door to Flat 2/2 in Camphill Gate where the young soldier Robert Glasse Knox lived prior to dying of his wounds received on 3rd May 1915 at Gallipoli in World War 1.

ALT These formerly boarded over cast iron framed neoclassical windows on the former ABC Glasgow cinema have just been revealed. They are products of Walter Macfarlane’s Saracen Foundry. They add depth to Charles McNair’s huge neoclassical arch.

ALT One of the square neoclassical cast iron framed windows above Charles McNair’s huge neoclassical arch has now been revealed supplying yet further evidence of how grand it must have looked.

ALT On the eastern side of the arch, on the former ABC Glasgow cinema, cast iron framed neoclassical windows remain boarded over so have yet to be revealed.