I mentioned in my posts about the Battlefield Monument, Langside, Glasgow, and Langside Hill Church that one of the good lady’s collateral ancestors was the architect Alexander Skirving.

A mile or so away from those there is a street named after him. Whether he designed any of the tenement buildings here I don’t know but I suppose it is possible.

Looking back from midway along Skirving Street:-

The street links Tantallon Road and Kilmarnock Road and crosses Deanston Drive so there are lots of Skirving Street signs:-

Looking towards Kilmarnock Road from Deanston Drive:-

Looking back from Kilmarnock Road:-

I wonder if Alexander Skirving could have conceived of a Chinese Restaurant being named after him:-

The Victoria Infirmary was housed in an impressive building opposite the Queen’s Park in Langside.

Aspect facing onto Queen’s Park. The hoardings are because the building is undergoing partial demolition and redevelopment:-

Entrance facade, Former Victoria Infirmary Building:-

This picture, where the infirmary makes up the background, is from the Infirmary’s Wikipedia page.

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:-

The monument, now in the middle of a roundabout, was designed by one of the good lady’s collateral ancestors, Alexander Skirving, and commemorates the Battle of Langside, site of the last defeat in Scotland of Mary Queen of Scots, and is somewhat at odds with its modern surroundings.

From east:-

From south:-

From west:-

Battlefield Monument plaque:-

Planter at monument’s foot:-