Laurencekirk is a small town in the former Kincardineshire in north-east Scotland, now administratively part of Aberdeenshire. We dropped by there on our way up to the cup tie at Peterhead last year (which sadly was postponed so I missed one of our few wins last season.)

Kincardineshire lies in the Mearns, so splendidly delineated in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon who lived in nearby Arbuthnot.

I was quite surprised to see a minor example of Art Deco there, Hantons Garage:-

Frontage. Stepped roofline, rule of three in central first floor windows:-

Clearly no longer in use as a garage but the Clydesdale Bank sign marks the presence of a cashpoint so it seems it still serves the town:-

There’s almost no Art Deco in Glasgow’s Byres Road.

There’s a new Nardini’s ocupying a street corner site – but that’s only within the last five years and is only a facade over the older building. I featured it here. (Compare with the Largs original.)

When I was there in October 2017 I did, though, spot the glass above these doors:-

Greenbank is a classic Art Deco house in Helensburgh – once West Dunbartonshire but now – after the Tories gerrymandered Scottish council areas in 1976 in an attempt to bolster their representation, not that that’s how it turned out – in Argyll and Bute

Strong horizontals and verticals, rounded canopy and balcony, appears to be Critall windows still. They’ve not been “poked out” anyway. It looks more like cream than white rendering, though, but that’s okay:-

The colour scheme reminds me of Wolverton in Silver End.

A side view:-

Not even a stone’s throw from the Battlefield Monument but just about that from Langside Hill Church lies this brick-built Art Deco building. I don’t know what it was when it was built but it’s now a supermarket.

There are many Deco hallmarks: horizontals, verticals, glass bricks, rule of three, canopy. I was delighted to see it and have the chance to photograph it:-

A different angle reveals the building is a Tesco Express. There’s even a curved wall this side:-

Curved wall close-up:-

Door surround:-

Pictures shamelessly stolen from diamond geezer’s post. (I’ve only included the Art Deco buildings.)

572-574 Roman Road, Bow, E3 5ES:-

Hackney, 333/337 Mare Street, E8 1HY:-

72-76 High Street North, East Ham, E6 2JL:-

This photo of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club clubhouse was for some reason on display in Liverpool when I was there. As I recall it was on the walls of the Cavern Club but it might just have been in a shop window. (I photographed the photo.)

This slightly longer shot is also on Flick (by snowinp):-

A sid eview of the clubhouse from Wikipedia (Photo by David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9208800)

I’ve probably barely scratched the surface of Art Deco in Liverpool as I only really was in the city centre. I know I’ve missed the former Speke Airport now named after John Lennon (see, among other buildings here.) Then there’s this beezer on Bold Street – a piece of higher Art Deco would be difficult to find.

Still, there was one final building near the waterfront that shouted deco. George’s Dock Ventilation and Control Station – seen below with the Royal Liver Building in the background.

Seen from Strand Street:-

Figure decoration detail:-

Upper levels detail:-

Tower detail:-

From Brunswick Street:-

Note green lamp standards and small shelter in this closer view:-

Surrounding railings and detail:-

Door and window detail:-

As its name implies it was built as a ventilating station – for the Mersey (road) tunnel. Yet this plaque commemorating the Liverpool Overhead Railway was on one of its external walls

Brunswick Street Aspect full aspect. (Stitch of two photos to get it all in):-

This very similar building was a bit further into the city centre – near the famous Cavern Club. I presume it’s also a ventilation tower:-

Another impressive Art Deco theatre in Liverpool. Again my photo was snatched while passing on a bus tour:-

The photo below is from the theatre’s Wikipedia page:-

This view is from the John Turner Construction Group who have been given a refurbishment contract:-

And this is from manchesterhistory.net. The link has a few more pictures showing details of the building:-

This is clearly not a building from the 1920 or 1930s but it definitely has Deco style much like the MI5/MI6 building in London or the UCAS building in Cheltenham.

Viewed from a bus tour.

A Chinese restaurant, very minor deco:-

“The Lighting Centre,” but it seemed to be closed:-

The building below is not strictly in Liverpool as it’s across the Mersey but I photographed it from Liverpool. I was told it’s a fume extraction tower for the Mersey Tunnel:-