THIS clock tower looks as if has been standing in splendid isolation for hundreds of years, but in fact it is all that remains of a much larger structure built in 1803.
The Pollokshaws clock tower in Pleasance Street is the surviving part of the old 
Town House.
This was built by the ‘Community or Common Council’, a body of subscribers who acted as a council before the busy manufacturing town of Pollokshaws became a burgh. 
There was a ground-floor school with a court-room and a police cell above it. From 1818, the building also housed a library. 
The Burgh Charter empowered the council to hold courts for the trial both of civil actions and criminal offences. A jail to incarcerate local wrongdoers was built in 1845.
Pollokshaws remained an independent burgh until 1912 when it was annexed to the City of Glasgow.
Sadly, most of the building was demolished in 1934 and only a public campaign saved the tower.
The Dutch-style tower has a four-faced clock ... at least that shows time is not standing still.

Glasgow Times:

Fashions come and go and this is a reminder of what one of Glasgow’s biggest stores thought customers might like in November 1987. This was one of the displays in Lewis’s in Argyle Street