The Beresford

The Beresford is a former hotel situated at 460 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It's now private flats.

I had the pleasure today of playing drums with The Zig Zag Big Band in the new music venue on the ground floor of the building.

The hotel opened in 1938 to provide accommodation for those attending the city's Empire Exhibition and was often described as Glasgow's first skyscraper, being the tallest building erected in Glasgow between the two world wars, at 10 storeys high.

It is one of the city's most notable examples of Art Deco/Streamline Moderne architecture.