Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Rotundas

Pedestrians, horses and carts – and later motor vehicles – would be hauled up by hydraulic lifts provided by the Otis Elevator Company of New York.

[3] Originally, three-storey red and white brick towers stood alongside the rotundas, containing the hydraulic accumulators that powered the lifts, but these have been demolished.

[4] Over the years, the Rotundas have served many functions including during the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 when one housed a replica of the famous Nardini’s ice cream parlour in Largs.

In 2014, the National Theatre of Scotland took over the South Rotunda, with "The Tin Forest" project, creating a pop-up arts venue for performance and visual art as part of Festival 2014, the Commonwealth Games strand of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.

[8] The North Rotunda was a restaurant known as Cranside Kitchen, and a wedding venue, however this closed in August 2023.