IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Gallowgate, GLASGOW, G40 2DX

At the corner of Graham Square and Gallowgate. Once frequented by workers from the adjacent former Cattle & Meat Market. Click on this http://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/drover.html for more information about the history of the pub. The building dates from 1912 and is Category C Listed http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:33833 . The area under the cap on the corner of the roof was built as a clothes drying area Image

Built as a clothes drying area on a tenement at the corner of Graham Square Image A Category C Listed building http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:33833 .

Graham Square and the facades of some of the grand buildings of the once vast meat and cattle market which dominated the area from 1816 until 1997. Here is a http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/spw053584 to an aerial photo of the site taken in 1937. The surviving buildings are Category B Listed http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:33842 .

The surviving facade of one of the Graham Square buildings of the once vast meat and cattle market which dominated the area from 1816 until 1997. Here is a http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/spw053584 to an aerial photo of the site taken in 1937. The surviving buildings are Category B Listed http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:33842 .

See: Image

The facade of the former Graham Square entrance to Glasgow Cattle and Meat Market

Awards received : Regeneration of Scotland Award 2000, Saltire Award 2001, Royal Institute of British Architects Regional Architecture Award 2001 and Civic Trust Award 2002.

"Animals came from over the horizon They belonged there & here They were both mortal & immortal Each lion was lion & Each ox was ox" So runs the inscription at the base of this statue of a garlanded calf. It stands in a square that is enclosed on the west by an old stone facade with a new building behind it; the facade bears horned heads, namely, those of a bull and a ram: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/949397 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/949398 (compare http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1328345 in Coatbridge). To the north, another horned head, that of a bearded man, peers down beneath a clock face: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/949401 The south side of the square is open to the street (the Gallowgate), but a tower on the other side is painted with a black cattle skull and garland: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/949405 "The Calf" (1998-2000) is one of many public artworks sculpted by Kenny Hunter that are to be found in Glasgow and in surrounding areas; for other works by Kenny Hunter, see: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1015330 The inscription that runs around around the base was carved by J.B.Kemp, and is drawn from an anthropological text ("Why look at animals?") by John Berger. The horned heads in carved stone nearby, and the tower with its skull and garland, are much older than this statue. Taken together, these works give the place a strange sacrificial aura. This seems appropriate: immediately to the north of Graham Square there was formerly an abattoir; in turn, to the north of the abattoir was the cattle market. Car auctions are now held in the site of the former cattle market. I have watched these take place, and was struck by just how closely they followed the format of the cattle auctions (the setting, too, was largely unchanged): each car was wheeled out in turn to the centre, to the spot where the cattle would have been presented. Interested onlookers would then come up en masse and hurriedly inspect the car from all sides, with some trying to examine the underside. Likewise, the proceedings were as fast-paced as when livestock were being auctioned: after only a minute or two of this general inspection, the bidding would begin.

See: Image

See: Image