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The Lanarkshire Royal Engineers Volunteers Drill Hall on Jardine Street in Glasgow. Built in 1894 and designed by Robert Alexander Bryden, its brick construction and Tudor style detailing contrasts sharply with the surrounding sandstone tenements.

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So, a dispute between two rival developers some 150 years ago was directly responsible for the creation of one of Glasgow's most impressive pieces of Victorian structural engineering designed by one of its greatest architects.

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He first built his own bridge over the river and then commissioned Alexander 'Greek' Thomson to design the structure we now know as the Sixty Steps.

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How to get people across the River Kelvin and up the steep slope on the opposite bank to the land he wanted to develop at the top of the hill? His solution was ingenuous, if rather expensive.

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Yesterday, I was telling the story of a large spite wall built in 1869 in the North Kelvinside area of Glasgow, but there's another, even bigger wall which was constructed in the same area just a few years later, and which is still there to this day (top photo).

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