‘Fragments of Glasgow’ documents key buildings from Glasgow’s rich heritage through a snapshot of coloured photographs accompanied by simple historical descriptions. Buildings have been selected predominantly from the booming Victorian Era. Each chapter covers a different building typology highlighting a variety of architectural styles, including French Renaissance, Greek revival, Italianate and of course, Glasgow's own 'free style'. This publication comes 40 years after Frank Worsdall’s ‘Victorian City’ published in 1982 and presents many of the same beautiful buildings that have since undergone restoration with stonework repaired and cleaned.

It celebrates some of the impressive conservation, creativity, and investment that has been undertaken to repurpose these architectural treasures and breathe new life into the building fabric. Every building in this book has undergone some form of restoration. Behind almost every building's refreshed stonework tells a story of community engagement, fundraising campaign, listed building consent to ensure that these essential fragments of Glasgow are not lost today's throwaway culture.

Colour photos reveal the beauty of the stonework, which was previously blanketed in a coat of soot and grime. This highlights the dramatic turnaround in opinion from the 1960s and 1970s destruction of the city's fabric to the appreciation of the city's rich heritage in Industry and Culture.
It is encouraging to see renewed interest in conservation and repurposing these quality buildings. In an increasingly homogenous world, the built heritage gives the city an identity. Glasgow’s industrial heritage is finally celebrated, and names from the past are richly woven into its history.