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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG38H8 - . Mr Harold & Sons shop in the Argyll Arcade Victorian Glasgow shopping mall , Scotland, UK. Photographed at 30 Buchanan Street, Merchant City, Glasgow, Scotland UK G2 8BG. The photograph was taken on 29 August 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Harold, Sons, shop, Argyll, Arcade, hidden, off, track, places and visit, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The scene is relevant to retail, shopping, consumer behaviour, town and city centres, independent businesses and the changing appearance of the British high street. It can support editorial stories about shops, shopping centres, retail architecture, store branding, local commerce, vacancies, regeneration, consumer spending, tourism and the pressure on traditional bricks-and-mortar businesses. Shopfronts, signs, windows, displays, arcades and surrounding public realm provide useful visual context for how retail space is designed and experienced by pedestrians. The photograph also acts as a dated record of a business or shopping location, valuable when premises later change hands, rebrand, close or are redeveloped. Search themes include retail, shopping, shopfronts, consumer behaviour, high streets, town centres, commercial property, independent business, branding and changing local economies. A dated view of a shop or shopping environment gains extra archive value when businesses rebrand, close, move or when premises are redeveloped. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
30 Buchanan Street, Merchant City, Glasgow, Scotland UK G2 8BG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG38WF - . Princes Square, Glasgow City, Scotland, UK. Photographed at Princes Square, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The photograph was taken on 29 August 2013. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The interior viewpoint records fittings, surfaces, decoration and spatial details that help show how the premises or public space was arranged when photographed. The scene is closely associated with Princes Square, Glasgow City, shop, Princes, Shopping, Glasgow, Interior, Square, buildings and stone, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is useful for editorial coverage of eating out, restaurant culture, food presentation, hospitality and the way international cuisine has become part of everyday dining in British cities. Food, crockery, tableware, menus, serving dishes and restaurant surroundings can provide strong visual cues for features about cuisine, ingredients, dining habits, tourism, leisure spending and the hospitality economy. The image is documentary rather than studio food photography, giving it relevance to real-world restaurant reviews, travel features, local food guides and stories about consumer choice. It also records the appearance and presentation of a meal at a particular time and place, useful for archive, lifestyle and social-history contexts. Search themes include restaurant dining, cuisine, food presentation, hospitality, eating out, table settings, tourism, consumer lifestyle and the local food economy. Because this is a real meal in a real venue rather than a studio arrangement, it has particular value for travel, dining and social-history features. It can be used in newspapers, magazines, books, websites, documentaries, heritage projects and retrospective features where geographical accuracy and period detail matter.
Princes Square, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG3910 - Shona Kinloch Born Glasgow, she studied sculpture at GSA , 1980-85, and was the winner of the Millie and Benno Schotz Award, 1985, and a Saltire Society Award, 1992.
Specialising in animal and figure sculptures, she has received several commissions for public sculpture in Glasgow:
Seven Glasgow Dogs, a popular though temporary feature of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, As the Crow Flies, West Princes Street (1993), Chookie Burdies, on lampposts in Garnethill (1993), Thinking of Bella, Italian Centre, 179-180 Ingram Street (1994), In Pursuit of..., on the west wall of the Chancellor's Hall, University of Strathclyde (1996), and As Proud As..., Princes Square, Glasgow (2000).
She has also received commissions for work in Edinburgh, Kilmarnock, Loughborough (The Sock, 1998), East Kilbride and Hamilton (The Square Stars, 1998).
She has exhibited regularly throughout the UK since 1984, including at the RGIFA : showing Man With a Dog on His Shoulder, 1985, and Fish With a Dog Under Its Nose, 1987.
Her work is represented in numerous public collections including Pecking Hen, at the Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie.
A number of her small-scale works form part of the Dr Helen Cargill Thomson Collection which was the subject of an exhibition at the Collins Gallery in 2000, for which the sculptor donated her sketches for In Pursuit of....
Further example's of Shona's small-scale, animal and figurative bronzes were exhibited at Ewan Mundy Fine Art, 221 West George Street, Glasgow, in April, 2002, and these will be shown again at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh from 8th June, 2002, including The Three Fancy Pigeons (Together) (2001).
She currently lives in East Kilbride
48 Buchanan Street, Glasgow Scotland UK G1 3JN
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Keywords: sq,sq.,centre,center,green,bronze,naked,man,Statue,outside,Princes,Square,shopping,Mall,48,Buchanan,Street,in,central,Glasgow,Scotland,UK,G1,3JN,As,proud,As,art,artist,work,works,gotonysmith,parts,dick,Shona,Kinloch,willy,Private Parts,penis,private,Glaswegian,wanger
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG391X - Shona Kinloch Born Glasgow, she studied sculpture at GSA , 1980-85, and was the winner of the Millie and Benno Schotz Award, 1985, and a Saltire Society Award, 1992.
Specialising in animal and figure sculptures, she has received several commissions for public sculpture in Glasgow:
Seven Glasgow Dogs, a popular though temporary feature of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, As the Crow Flies, West Princes Street (1993), Chookie Burdies, on lampposts in Garnethill (1993), Thinking of Bella, Italian Centre, 179-180 Ingram Street (1994), In Pursuit of..., on the west wall of the Chancellor's Hall, University of Strathclyde (1996), and As Proud As..., Princes Square, Glasgow (2000).
She has also received commissions for work in Edinburgh, Kilmarnock, Loughborough (The Sock, 1998), East Kilbride and Hamilton (The Square Stars, 1998).
She has exhibited regularly throughout the UK since 1984, including at the RGIFA : showing Man With a Dog on His Shoulder, 1985, and Fish With a Dog Under Its Nose, 1987.
Her work is represented in numerous public collections including Pecking Hen, at the Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie.
A number of her small-scale works form part of the Dr Helen Cargill Thomson Collection which was the subject of an exhibition at the Collins Gallery in 2000, for which the sculptor donated her sketches for In Pursuit of....
Further example's of Shona's small-scale, animal and figurative bronzes were exhibited at Ewan Mundy Fine Art, 221 West George Street, Glasgow, in April, 2002, and these will be shown again at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh from 8th June, 2002, including The Three Fancy Pigeons (Together) (2001).
She currently lives in East Kilbride
48 Buchanan Street, Glasgow Scotland UK G1 3JN
Description
Keywords: sq,sq.,centre,center,green,bronze,naked,man,Statue,outside,Princes,Square,shopping,Mall,48,Buchanan,Street,in,central,Glasgow,Scotland,UK,G1,3JN,Shona,Kinloch,As,proud,As,art,artist,work,works,Glaswegian,dick,willy,penis,private,parts,Private Parts,gotonysmith,langer
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG392W - Shona Kinloch Born Glasgow, she studied sculpture at GSA , 1980-85, and was the winner of the Millie and Benno Schotz Award, 1985, and a Saltire Society Award, 1992.
Specialising in animal and figure sculptures, she has received several commissions for public sculpture in Glasgow:
Seven Glasgow Dogs, a popular though temporary feature of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, As the Crow Flies, West Princes Street (1993), Chookie Burdies, on lampposts in Garnethill (1993), Thinking of Bella, Italian Centre, 179-180 Ingram Street (1994), In Pursuit of..., on the west wall of the Chancellor's Hall, University of Strathclyde (1996), and As Proud As..., Princes Square, Glasgow (2000).
She has also received commissions for work in Edinburgh, Kilmarnock, Loughborough (The Sock, 1998), East Kilbride and Hamilton (The Square Stars, 1998).
She has exhibited regularly throughout the UK since 1984, including at the RGIFA : showing Man With a Dog on His Shoulder, 1985, and Fish With a Dog Under Its Nose, 1987.
Her work is represented in numerous public collections including Pecking Hen, at the Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie.
A number of her small-scale works form part of the Dr Helen Cargill Thomson Collection which was the subject of an exhibition at the Collins Gallery in 2000, for which the sculptor donated her sketches for In Pursuit of....
Further example's of Shona's small-scale, animal and figurative bronzes were exhibited at Ewan Mundy Fine Art, 221 West George Street, Glasgow, in April, 2002, and these will be shown again at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh from 8th June, 2002, including The Three Fancy Pigeons (Together) (2001).
She currently lives in East Kilbride
48 Buchanan Street, Glasgow Scotland UK G1 3JN
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Keywords: Centre,hidden,off,the,tourist,track,places,to,visit,in,Strathclyde,Glasgow,shopping,mall,Scotland,UK,shoppers,tourists,shopping,in,olde,fashioned,glass,roof,roofed,building,upmarket,center,luxury,expensive,jewelry,jewellry,covered,jewellers,shops,stores,store,retail,traditional,scottish,standing,Gotonysmith,Concierge,security,man,at,Argyll,Arcade,Victorian,Glasgow,shopping,mall,Scotland,UK,wide,shot,wideangle,in,the,city,United,kingdom,Great,Britain,30,Buchanan,Street,Merchant City,Glasgow G2 8BG G28BG City Centre,Merchant City,Buchanan Street,Glaswegian,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG38K1 - . Concierge security man at Argyll Arcade Victorian Glasgow shopping mall , Scotland, UK. Photographed on 23 August 2013. The recorded location is 30 Buchanan Street, Merchant City, Glasgow, Scotland UK G2 8BG. A better class of security guard in the poshest shopping centre in Glasgow! Looking at the subject's development, physical access control traditionally relied on guards, passes, keys and written instructions
Surviving notices show the routines of secure workplaces and can reveal the culture of secrecy or safety surrounding military, transport and industrial operations. Historically, historic and contemporary architecture can be read as a record of investment, planning and changing urban functions
Civic, commercial, industrial and residential buildings each contribute to the character of a townscape, particularly where older structures are adapted rather than demolished. In the longer view, historic objects and places gain meaning through survival
Materials, craftsmanship, inscriptions and later alterations can reveal how a property, machine or everyday item was made, used and valued, while preservation decisions show which parts of the past communities choose to retain. For the 2026 context, modern security spans both buildings and information systems
Historic signs about passes and restricted entrances therefore illustrate the continuity of access control even though the technology used to authenticate people has changed. In 2026, the reuse of existing buildings is increasingly discussed alongside conservation, embodied carbon and town-centre regeneration
Images of older façades and converted premises can therefore illustrate both architectural heritage and the practical pressures of adapting buildings for new uses. As of 2026, heritage continues to be economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historic fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse.
30 Buchanan Street, Merchant City, Glasgow, Scotland UK G2 8BG
