Looking east along Argyle St in 1971 as the Anderston Centre nears completion. An example of the "megastructure" approach to urban renewal, it was in a sorry state by the 90s. The Argyle St blocks have gone, but several others remain, refurbed and overclad in 2008 by GHA.
📷 Colin Duncan
📷 Colin Duncan
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Looking east along Argyle St in 1971 as the Anderston Centre nears completion. An example of the "megastructure" approach to urban renewal, it was in a sorry state by the 90s. The Argyle St blocks have gone, but several others remain, refurbed and overclad in 2008 by GHA.
📷 Colin Duncan
📷 Colin Duncan
On Remembrance Sunday, I'm going to tell you the story of this man, my great grandfather: Private John McAllister, 6th Bat. Seaforth Highlanders.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
On Remembrance Sunday, I'm going to tell you the story of this man, my great grandfather: Private John McAllister, 6th Bat. Seaforth Highlanders.
Well known high street retailer Saxone, updating the signage at their Buchanan St store in April 1932. Their Kilmarnock factory was producing footwear right up until its closure in the mid-1980s.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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📷 Glasgow City Archives
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November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Well known high street retailer Saxone, updating the signage at their Buchanan St store in April 1932. Their Kilmarnock factory was producing footwear right up until its closure in the mid-1980s.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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📷 Glasgow City Archives
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This week's Friday pub is the Griffin on Bath St, pictured here in 1975. Built in 1903, it was originally called The King's Arms, after the King's Theatre across the street, and was renamed The Griffin after publican William Griffin who ran the pub in the 60s & 70s.
📷 GSA
📷 GSA
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This week's Friday pub is the Griffin on Bath St, pictured here in 1975. Built in 1903, it was originally called The King's Arms, after the King's Theatre across the street, and was renamed The Griffin after publican William Griffin who ran the pub in the 60s & 70s.
📷 GSA
📷 GSA
A stunning aerial view of the University of Glasgow taken in 1966. The triangle of tenements at the bottom was demolished so University Ave could be realigned with Highburgh Rd. The space is now occupied by a car park and medical school buildings.
📷 University of Glasgow
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📷 University of Glasgow
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November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A stunning aerial view of the University of Glasgow taken in 1966. The triangle of tenements at the bottom was demolished so University Ave could be realigned with Highburgh Rd. The space is now occupied by a car park and medical school buildings.
📷 University of Glasgow
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📷 University of Glasgow
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Loved by Glasgow's youth for nearly 3 decades, Flip brought American clothing to the city after being set up as a franchise arm of Flip on London's King's Road by Jean Brown and Colin McNaught in 1980.
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#glasgow
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Loved by Glasgow's youth for nearly 3 decades, Flip brought American clothing to the city after being set up as a franchise arm of Flip on London's King's Road by Jean Brown and Colin McNaught in 1980.
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#glasgow
Moscow? No, Kinning Park. This onion-domed wonder was Rutland House at 43-45 Govan Rd, designed by Bruce and Hay and built in 1896. Pictured here in 1968 by John Hume, it was demolished 3 years later in 1971.
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#Glasgow
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Moscow? No, Kinning Park. This onion-domed wonder was Rutland House at 43-45 Govan Rd, designed by Bruce and Hay and built in 1896. Pictured here in 1968 by John Hume, it was demolished 3 years later in 1971.
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#Glasgow
Sad to hear that Freddie the cat, AKA the Mayor of Shawlands, has gone over the rainbow bridge at the grand old age of 20. A kenspeckle figure around Skirving St, he'd bless the chosen few by selecting their car bonnet or roof for an afternoon snooze.
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#Glasgow
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sad to hear that Freddie the cat, AKA the Mayor of Shawlands, has gone over the rainbow bridge at the grand old age of 20. A kenspeckle figure around Skirving St, he'd bless the chosen few by selecting their car bonnet or roof for an afternoon snooze.
#Glasgow
#Glasgow
Hillhead Burgh Hall, designed by George Bell of Clarke and Bell, photographed in the 1960s. It opened in 1873 and was demolished less than a century later in 1970. The site was later used for the new Hillhead Library in 1972.
📷 News quest
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📷 News quest
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November 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Hillhead Burgh Hall, designed by George Bell of Clarke and Bell, photographed in the 1960s. It opened in 1873 and was demolished less than a century later in 1970. The site was later used for the new Hillhead Library in 1972.
📷 News quest
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📷 News quest
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The People's Palace on Glasgow Green. It was designed by the City Engineer A.B. MacDonald and decorated with sculptures representing Art, Science, Shipbuilding, Industry and Progress by William Kellock Brown.
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#Glasgow
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The People's Palace on Glasgow Green. It was designed by the City Engineer A.B. MacDonald and decorated with sculptures representing Art, Science, Shipbuilding, Industry and Progress by William Kellock Brown.
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#Glasgow
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
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This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
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November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
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This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
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This week's Friday pub is Speaker's Corner, photographed here in the 70s by Stuart Neville. Formerly a retail store, a pub was opened here in 1963 as Carr's Bar, named after licensee Partick Joseph Carr. In recent years you might recognise it as Driftwood.
📷 Stuart Neville
📷 Stuart Neville
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This week's Friday pub is Speaker's Corner, photographed here in the 70s by Stuart Neville. Formerly a retail store, a pub was opened here in 1963 as Carr's Bar, named after licensee Partick Joseph Carr. In recent years you might recognise it as Driftwood.
📷 Stuart Neville
📷 Stuart Neville
A spooky early c20th scene showing the Trongate by moonlight. It's all post-production trickery of course, but even in the daylight you might find one or two punters howling at the moon up by the Tron Steeple...
#Glasgow #Halloween
#Glasgow #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A spooky early c20th scene showing the Trongate by moonlight. It's all post-production trickery of course, but even in the daylight you might find one or two punters howling at the moon up by the Tron Steeple...
#Glasgow #Halloween
#Glasgow #Halloween
The University of Glasgow looking terrifying in this spooky, moonlit postcard view of around 1904 🎃
#Glasgow #Halloween
#Glasgow #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The University of Glasgow looking terrifying in this spooky, moonlit postcard view of around 1904 🎃
#Glasgow #Halloween
#Glasgow #Halloween
Gorbals, 1948, and Bert Hardy has his lens trained on these young lads turning the old Gorbals Burying Ground into an unlikely playground.
📷 Bert Hardy
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📷 Bert Hardy
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October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Gorbals, 1948, and Bert Hardy has his lens trained on these young lads turning the old Gorbals Burying Ground into an unlikely playground.
📷 Bert Hardy
#Glasgow #Halloween
📷 Bert Hardy
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One of the last remaining general stores in the Gorbals, photographed by Jürgen Schadeberg in 1968. Perhaps around this time of year, going by the advertised "Batman suits" 🦇 🎃
📷 Jürgen Schadeberg
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📷 Jürgen Schadeberg
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October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of the last remaining general stores in the Gorbals, photographed by Jürgen Schadeberg in 1968. Perhaps around this time of year, going by the advertised "Batman suits" 🦇 🎃
📷 Jürgen Schadeberg
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📷 Jürgen Schadeberg
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William Leiper's Victorian Gothic factory of 1892 for James Templeton was modelled on the Doge's palace in Venice. Templeton was told that any factory at such a prominent spot must enhance the area. I think Leiper met the brief.
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#Glasgow
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
William Leiper's Victorian Gothic factory of 1892 for James Templeton was modelled on the Doge's palace in Venice. Templeton was told that any factory at such a prominent spot must enhance the area. I think Leiper met the brief.
#Glasgow
#Glasgow
A Halloween pillar box topper, spotted in Balloch at the weekend. It looks like the Grim Reaper at the back has taken his scythe to the crowd at the front 🎃
#Halloween
#Halloween
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A Halloween pillar box topper, spotted in Balloch at the weekend. It looks like the Grim Reaper at the back has taken his scythe to the crowd at the front 🎃
#Halloween
#Halloween
Some brilliant footage of the Barras in 1978, featuring many of the market's patter merchants who could draw in a crowd in order to sell their wares.
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#Glasgow
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Some brilliant footage of the Barras in 1978, featuring many of the market's patter merchants who could draw in a crowd in order to sell their wares.
#Glasgow
#Glasgow
An atmospheric scene from 1949, with the Forth and Clyde canal dominated by the looming presence of the Pinkston power station's enormous cooling tower. The gloom is pierced by a Victorian gas lamp.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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📷 Glasgow City Archives
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October 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
An atmospheric scene from 1949, with the Forth and Clyde canal dominated by the looming presence of the Pinkston power station's enormous cooling tower. The gloom is pierced by a Victorian gas lamp.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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📷 Glasgow City Archives
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The McLennan Arch photographed in its second location at the end of Charlotte St in 1975. It was salvaged from the demolition of the c18th Assembly Rooms on Ingram St around 1892. It moved to the Saltmarket entrance of Glasgow Green in 1991.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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📷 Glasgow City Archives
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October 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The McLennan Arch photographed in its second location at the end of Charlotte St in 1975. It was salvaged from the demolition of the c18th Assembly Rooms on Ingram St around 1892. It moved to the Saltmarket entrance of Glasgow Green in 1991.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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📷 Glasgow City Archives
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This week's Friday pub is the Horse Shoe Bar on Drury St, pictured here before opening time in August 1977. It's nice to see that some things don't change. Sláinte!
📷 Duncan McCallum
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📷 Duncan McCallum
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October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This week's Friday pub is the Horse Shoe Bar on Drury St, pictured here before opening time in August 1977. It's nice to see that some things don't change. Sláinte!
📷 Duncan McCallum
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📷 Duncan McCallum
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October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
More from Glasgow, 1978, featuring Eglinton Toll, the Plaza Ballroom, the carnival at the Kelvin Hall, finished off with a sing song in Curlers. Look out for psychiatrist RD Laing talking about his dad's visits to the Plaza 😂
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#glasgow
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
More from Glasgow, 1978, featuring Eglinton Toll, the Plaza Ballroom, the carnival at the Kelvin Hall, finished off with a sing song in Curlers. Look out for psychiatrist RD Laing talking about his dad's visits to the Plaza 😂
#glasgow
#glasgow