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We are now very close to Charing Cross in this view taken early in the 20th Century, after the tramway had been electrified in 1901 and before the last tree on this part of Sauchiehall Street was removed in 1906. On the left are the Albany Chambers, designed by Sir J. J. Burnett and completed in 1896. The entrance is flanked by Gavin Crawford & Sons and Hugh Dunlop & Sons with the former having their end of season sale. The sober storefronts of the period do not detract from the fine architecture. Long dark dresses and wide-brimmed hats are much in evidence in this Edwardian scene. ( Rotary Photographic Series postcard )
northmaven wrote:Gomme, Walker and Pevsner don't mention the one-storey row, and skip over it as unworthy of comment. This pic of the Locarno next door shows a sliver of the building in 1930. Those sun/wheel reliefs were originally plate glass windows and there was also more ornamentation. The effect seems slightly less "Deco" and makes me hopeful this row might be a little bit older than its stripped-back appearance today suggests. I just need to find an architectural guide that mentions it!
(I keep referring to it as one-storey just to distinguish it, but of course it has an attic storey with dormer windows.)
As there are still four other numbers listed inbetween Grays' yard at #474 and the Halls at # 490, I'd place the Halls as standing near the middle of the block where the one-storey building with the sunburst motifs at each end stands, rather than at the very end (the Garage) as this block's site appears to span nos 498 to 476 in the POds. Of course it remains to be seen what actually stood there c 1910 - I've not yet dated the "sunburst" block.
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