Useful links

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Websites with items on Alexander 'Greek' Thomson

• Glasgow City Guide website with photos of St Vincent Street Church and other Glasgow buildings
• SCRAN's material on Thomson (for SCRAN homepage, see below)
• St Vincent Street / Milton Free Church of Scotland: a website from the congregation occupying St Vincent Street Church
• Mini-biographies: from Gazetteer for Scotland, Rampant Scotland, and the Swiss architectural site Vitruvio
• Glasgow Institute of Architects pages on Thomson
• Scotguide guided tours of Thomson buildings in Glasgow
• National Trust for Scotland PDF document on Thomson, with a focus on Holmwood House, the main NTS Holmwood website, and more on the house from AboutBritain
• The website of Balfron Heritage Group, based in the village where Thomson was born (where you can purchase a Thomson tea-towel)
• Visual Catalogues: a commercial website promoting a Thomson CD
• BBC website on Glasgow history
• Scottish banking website, including the Clydesdale Bank's 1999 £20 note featuring Alexander Thomson
• Ken Cowan's website focusing on Thomson's villa, Craig Ailey
• Website for Glasgow University alumni magazine, with an article on John Baird I's planned new Glasgow University, in which Thomson would have been involved.
• Glasgow West End: Pat Byrne's website including information on local Thomson buildings
• Website for CCA Glasgow, the arts centre based in a Thomson building
• Gerry Blaikie's website on the Cathcart Circle and its environs

Architecture websites

• Architecture Links on the web (maintained by RIBA)
• Nineteenth Century Books on Arts and Architecture
• 19th-20th Century British Architecture
• Victorian Architecture (part of The Victorian Web)
• Georgian Group
• The Victorian Society
• World Monuments Fund
• Architectural Heritage Web Sites (Wide-ranging but slow-loading)
• Robert Gordon University portal to heritage, conservation and acrhitecture websites

Scotland-specific websites

• The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland for the study and protection of Scottish architecture
• Glasgow - City of Sculpture
• Undiscovered Scotland: Scottish architecture (books on Scottish architecture)
• Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society
• Glasgow Conservation Trust West
• The Lighthouse: Scotland's centre for architecture and the city
• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
• Scottish schools of architecture (via Strathclyde University's Information Room)
• SCRAN (Scottish history and culture)
• Virtual Mitchell (Mitchell Library Glasgow online service)
• Strathclyde University Information Room (wide-ranging listing of sources)
• New Glasgow Society

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