November 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
London Rd, 1962 v 2024.
It's 1962 and this 'Cunarder' on service no 9 is heading to Dalmuir West. It's passing a neat little brick terrace of shops on London Rd that have since been reduced to a single storey. Glickman's is still at this location today.
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It's 1962 and this 'Cunarder' on service no 9 is heading to Dalmuir West. It's passing a neat little brick terrace of shops on London Rd that have since been reduced to a single storey. Glickman's is still at this location today.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
London Rd, 1962 v 2024.
It's 1962 and this 'Cunarder' on service no 9 is heading to Dalmuir West. It's passing a neat little brick terrace of shops on London Rd that have since been reduced to a single storey. Glickman's is still at this location today.
#glasgow
It's 1962 and this 'Cunarder' on service no 9 is heading to Dalmuir West. It's passing a neat little brick terrace of shops on London Rd that have since been reduced to a single storey. Glickman's is still at this location today.
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Tenements at the corner of London Rd and Davaar St, photographed in 1969. None of these remain and the area is now taken up by a car park and Celtic ticket office.
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📷 Isobel Craig
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November 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Tenements at the corner of London Rd and Davaar St, photographed in 1969. None of these remain and the area is now taken up by a car park and Celtic ticket office.
📷 Isobel Craig
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📷 Isobel Craig
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Shops on Battlefield Rd, where it forms a gushet with Battlefield Gardens. The corner is occupied by the Kinning Park Cooperative Society, which was formed in 1871 at the same time as the police burgh of Kinning Park itself.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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📷 Glasgow City Archives
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November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Shops on Battlefield Rd, where it forms a gushet with Battlefield Gardens. The corner is occupied by the Kinning Park Cooperative Society, which was formed in 1871 at the same time as the police burgh of Kinning Park itself.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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📷 Glasgow City Archives
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This week's Friday pub is the Manx Bar, Glebe St, Townhead.
The tenement above the pub was dismantled in the 1960s in preparation for the Townhead interchange, however the single storey bar survived until 1991.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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The tenement above the pub was dismantled in the 1960s in preparation for the Townhead interchange, however the single storey bar survived until 1991.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This week's Friday pub is the Manx Bar, Glebe St, Townhead.
The tenement above the pub was dismantled in the 1960s in preparation for the Townhead interchange, however the single storey bar survived until 1991.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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The tenement above the pub was dismantled in the 1960s in preparation for the Townhead interchange, however the single storey bar survived until 1991.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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A tram lights up the gloom during the biting early winter of 1947. Amazingly, it's only 2.30pm on this November day as the freezing smog takes hold. Glasgow would endure frequent pea-soupers prior to the Clean Air Act of 1956.
📷 Newsquest
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📷 Newsquest
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November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A tram lights up the gloom during the biting early winter of 1947. Amazingly, it's only 2.30pm on this November day as the freezing smog takes hold. Glasgow would endure frequent pea-soupers prior to the Clean Air Act of 1956.
📷 Newsquest
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📷 Newsquest
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Duke St prison photographed in a state of disrepair, shortly before it was demolished in 1958.
Duke Street Prison opened in 1798 and the passing in 1839 of An Act to Improve Prisons and Prison Discipline started the creation of a centralised prison system.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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Duke Street Prison opened in 1798 and the passing in 1839 of An Act to Improve Prisons and Prison Discipline started the creation of a centralised prison system.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Duke St prison photographed in a state of disrepair, shortly before it was demolished in 1958.
Duke Street Prison opened in 1798 and the passing in 1839 of An Act to Improve Prisons and Prison Discipline started the creation of a centralised prison system.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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Duke Street Prison opened in 1798 and the passing in 1839 of An Act to Improve Prisons and Prison Discipline started the creation of a centralised prison system.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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I'm in George Town, Grand Cayman right now, and in Heroes Square they have these walls of milestones in history and significant people. A Glasgow version could be interesting for natives and tourists alike. The arguments over what should be included would be entertaining 😂
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I'm in George Town, Grand Cayman right now, and in Heroes Square they have these walls of milestones in history and significant people. A Glasgow version could be interesting for natives and tourists alike. The arguments over what should be included would be entertaining 😂
The march past the Glasgow City Chambers in 1914 by Glasgow's tramway men to form the 1st Battalion.
📽️ National Library of Scotland
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📽️ National Library of Scotland
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The march past the Glasgow City Chambers in 1914 by Glasgow's tramway men to form the 1st Battalion.
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📽️ National Library of Scotland
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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
These are the ships manifests of the SS Assyria and TSS Transylvania indicating his movements.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
These are the ships manifests of the SS Assyria and TSS Transylvania indicating his movements.
He wasn't a decorated war hero, and he didn't storm a German position or drag a fallen mate from no man's land. He was, like so many, just an ordinary working man who went off and did his bit and, thankfully, came back with the scars to prove it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
He wasn't a decorated war hero, and he didn't storm a German position or drag a fallen mate from no man's land. He was, like so many, just an ordinary working man who went off and did his bit and, thankfully, came back with the scars to prove it.
He returned to Scotland in 1931 and that's the last I know of him until his death from bronchial carcinoma on 1st September 1953 at the Belvidere Hospital. The photo is of the Belvidere in 1990. It was leveled and replaced by a housing estate. Today almost no trace of it remains.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
He returned to Scotland in 1931 and that's the last I know of him until his death from bronchial carcinoma on 1st September 1953 at the Belvidere Hospital. The photo is of the Belvidere in 1990. It was leveled and replaced by a housing estate. Today almost no trace of it remains.
By January 1925 Annie was pregnant again but inexplicably John set sail for America. I can only guess it was to see his brother William who'd emigrated there. This photo is of John and perhaps William, almost certainly in the US.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
By January 1925 Annie was pregnant again but inexplicably John set sail for America. I can only guess it was to see his brother William who'd emigrated there. This photo is of John and perhaps William, almost certainly in the US.
It was written by Captain Chaplain Wilson Smith of the 1st Australian General Hospital on 27th July 1917. It's a moment of levity from a time of unremitting trauma and misery. In it Captain Wilson writes that John is "no sae bad" and that "there was nae use o grumblin".
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It was written by Captain Chaplain Wilson Smith of the 1st Australian General Hospital on 27th July 1917. It's a moment of levity from a time of unremitting trauma and misery. In it Captain Wilson writes that John is "no sae bad" and that "there was nae use o grumblin".
He was married in May 1917 to Annie McLachlan while on leave, and is listed as "On active service" on the marriage certificate. Five months later he was wounded somewhere near Rouen in northern France. How do I know that? Because of this letter.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
He was married in May 1917 to Annie McLachlan while on leave, and is listed as "On active service" on the marriage certificate. Five months later he was wounded somewhere near Rouen in northern France. How do I know that? Because of this letter.
Born on 13th August 1885 in Tradeston, Glasgow to John and Mary McAllister, he worked as a dock worker and enlisted in the army on the outbreak of war in 1914, aged 28. He served in the 2nd & 6th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Born on 13th August 1885 in Tradeston, Glasgow to John and Mary McAllister, he worked as a dock worker and enlisted in the army on the outbreak of war in 1914, aged 28. He served in the 2nd & 6th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders.
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.
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📷 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
Half of Lilybank Gdns is also gone. It's now a car park. Demolition has started to make way for the QMU and geology buildings. Half of the elegant Georgian terrace on Ashton Rd was flattened for the Boyd Orr and the rotten, windowless maths and stats building that's been and gone.
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Half of Lilybank Gdns is also gone. It's now a car park. Demolition has started to make way for the QMU and geology buildings. Half of the elegant Georgian terrace on Ashton Rd was flattened for the Boyd Orr and the rotten, windowless maths and stats building that's been and gone.
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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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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