By the 1940s, 20 million packets, all made in this factory, were being sold each year around the world. In the 1970s, they ramped up their advertsing with an advert featuring the Miseries, cartoon characters drawn by Roger Hargreeves, the creator of the Mr Men, and featuring the slogan 'Askit fights the Miseries'. Running unchanged until the mid-1990s, this was one of Britain's longest running and most successful advertaing campaigns.
The former Askit factory on Saracen Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. Designed by William B. Whitie, it was built in the 1930s. Invented by the Glasweigian pharmacist Adam Laidlaw in the late 1890s, Askit Powder contained a mix aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine, and was sold as a cure-all for many types of minor ailments such as headaches and colds.
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Possilpark Library in the north of Glasgow. Built in the 1910s, it was designed by George Simpson.
This collection of rather weird and wonderful sculpted heads are carved onto the corbels of decorative arches over the entrances to a series of tenement closes on Killearn Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. As far as I know they're unique and I've not come across any simlar ones on other tenements elsewhere in the city (yet!).
I love the little architectural details on this tenement on Killearn Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. In particular, I like the asymmetrical and opposing positioning of the close entrance and the chimney, as well as the simply decorated Roman arch over the doorway. There's also some rather wonderly little carvings on the corbels on either side of the door as well.
Love this decorative carving on the corbel of a tenement oriel window on Saracen Street in Possilpark.
The former Cowlairs Cooperative Society building on Saracen Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow.
An 1870s blonde sandstone gushet tenement on Balmore Road in the Possilpark area of Glasgow.
Love this decorative carving on the corbel of a tenement oriel window on Saracen Street in Possilpark. These types of decorations are not typical of Glasgow, but you do find them occasionally on buildings across the city. This one is amongst the best I've come across so far.
A rather magnificent curving 1870s blonde sandstone tenement building on Balmore Road in the Possil Park area of Glasgow.
Another of the rather wonderful decorative carvings on the support of a tenement oriel window on Saracen Street in Glasgow. This is from the same tenement as the one I featured a few days ago.
St Teresa of Lisieux Church on Saracen Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. Designed by Alexander McAnally and built in 1956, this Romanesque church has a very similar modernist look to those of Jack Coia.
Love this decorative carving under a tenement oriel window on Saracen Street in Glasgow. I've seen flowers and plants carved on such supports elsewhere, but never such wonderful creatures.
The former Cowlairs Cooperative Society building on Saracen Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. The Cowlairs Co-operative Society was founded in Springburn in 1881 by local railway workers. From the style, this buildng looks like it was probably built around the 1920s.
