The final stretch

nearly out of the park and Fish market clock tower beckons through the gloom, in the foreground on the left is The High Court and snuggled next to it on the right is the famous Glasgow Mortuary



It can`t claim to be one of Glasgow`s finer corner tenements, but Shipbank on the corner of Briggait and Saltmarket is certainly one of the more famous. It still boast an onion dome corner, and an intact wrap around victorian pub exterior!



I pass by and head down Paddies Loan and stop and click fast Eddie



I exit Paddies on Clyde Street and finally capture the south facing side of the fablous Fish market building from the middle of the street, no traffic in sight.



Facing it across the river is The Glasgow Mosque, with its eye of a needle minarate. It looks almost ok in the fog. But I know that when the fog clears so will my mind. It is one of my least favourite buildings in the city.
It looks like a cross between a B & Q shed and a sixties RAF aerodrome control tower. It was apparently donated to the local Muslim community by a Sheik from Saudi Arabia. I can only imagine that at the time he must have been wearing darker glasses than those guys tended to wear in those days!
I dont know if it adheres to islamic geometry, it certainly dosen`t look like it.
The glazed dome is to say the least unfortunate and looks as if it were glazed in polycarbonate.
Suggestion: tear it down, find another Sheik, maybey that guy who is building the tallest building in the world in downtown Dubai, and a really good architect who understands the disipline of Islamic Design.



A view doon the water Calton Place on the left Carrick Quay on the right before it dissapears and in the misty distance the suspension foot bridge, romantic or what!



A view up the toon of the romantic sun gilded mansions of commerce, education and power. The Stockwell never looked prettier than it did this morning!, no traffic and virtually no people, what more could you want!!!