Just back from Southside Housing Association’s official opening of James Salmon Jr’s British Linen Bank in the Gorbals. Well, Salmon really did have a wicked sense of humour for look at marble threshold at entrance to the bank: it’s a spider in its web - v gothic nohttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😮" title="Face with open mouth" aria-label="Emoji: Face with open mouth">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😬" title="Grimacing face" aria-label="Emoji: Grimacing face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">!?

Southside and their team including @pagepark have done a marvellous job with this ‘A’ listed tenement. Here is @Soryia cutting the ribbon at the base of the rebuilt rear staircase to the backcourt. I love Salmon’s #artnouveau wrought ironwork a great #GlasgowStyle moment https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥰" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts">!

I was last in this tenement in 2010 when it was a pigeon infested wreck. The transformation is truly astonishinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😮" title="Face with open mouth" aria-label="Emoji: Face with open mouth">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😉" title="Winking face" aria-label="Emoji: Winking face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up sign" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up sign">!

The restored tenement will now act as the ‘point-de-vue’ down Bedford Street which is gradually being enclosed by buildings once more and is to become a linear park through New Laurieston. It is fascinating to see how this part of #Glasgow’s cityscape is slowly healinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face" aria-label="Emoji: Thinking face">!