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"Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it 'the antidote to the rest of the world.'"
Anthony Bourdain, who died on this day in 2018.
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Former Man United player Patrice Evra tastes Irn Bru for the first time 😂
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"Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it 'the antidote to the rest of the world.'" Anthony Bourdain, who died on this day in 2018.
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How satisfying is it to see years of moss and dirt removed from the Mitchell Library? Watch until the end for the comparison 😍
📷 Secret Glasgow
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RIP Diego Armando Maradona (1960 - 2020)
Here he is aged 18 in June 1979, looking out over Hope Street from the Central Hotel. He scored his first goal for Argentina that day, the third in a 3-1 win.
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This is done in good humour, unlike the National's sour-faced front page.
Pat Nevin's patatas bravas are a highlight 😂
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The Glasgow Subway is 125 years old, so here's a timely reminder of what can be done when there's a will to save a building.
Here James Miller’s quirky 1896 Flemish Renaissance ticket office finds itself floating above the tracks as refurbishment continues around it
Pic: Reach
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Steve Martin on Billy Connolly:
"I have played banjo with Billy Connolly and it was wonderful. Listen, I thought I was famous until I walked down a Scottish street with Billy Connolly. It took on a holy aspect.
It was like going for a stroll with an apostle."
📷 Reach
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Happy birthday to the Glasgow Subway, 127 years old today. Now equipped with new trains, here's a flashback to the late 70s refurb that saw James Miller’s quirky 1896 Flemish Renaissance ticket office float above the tracks.
We can save buildings when we want to...
📷 Reach
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The much missed Anthony Bourdain enjoys a pint in the Ole College Bar while filming "Parts Unknown" in 2015.
“From my very first time — it was Glasgow. My favourite city in Scotland. One of my favourite places on Earth.”
Photo: Anthony Bourdain
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What a sight on the streets of Glasgow.
I wonder how many of these passed through the yard of my late father in law at Tiger Coaches, Salsburgh. He'd have taken a look at each one and rhymed off the make, model, and a dozen other facts without pause.
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Since it's the Glasgow Subway's 126th birthday, here's your regular reminder of what can be done when we *want* to save a building.
James Miller’s quirky 1896 Flemish Renaissance ticket office appears to float above the tracks as the 70s refurb continues around it.
📷 Reach
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"Izzat a marra on yer barra Clara?" 😂
Happy 95th birthday to comedy legend Stanley Baxter, who is 95 today.
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A fabulous festive shot showing House of Fraser decorated to the nines in the run up to Christmas 1981.
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How amazing is this? 😍
The Bluebells and The Every Voice Community Choir perform Young at Heart at Glasgow's
@KelvingroveArt
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📽️ Robert Perry
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Long shadows and fairy lights at Glasgow Central, Christmas 1964. Captured by the inimitable Oscar Marzaroli who was waiting for, and found, the magic that day.
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Very sorry to hear that the great John Byrne has passed away at the age of 83. At the Kelvingrove exibition last September it was just mind-boggling to contemplate so much talent crammed into a single man.
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The University of Glasgow looking terrifying in this spooky, moonlit postcard view of around 1904 🎃
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Shocked to hear that Robbie Coltrane has died at the age of 72.
Long before Harry Potter he starred in John Byrne's Tutti Frutti. Here he is pictured with co-star Emma Thompson.
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Nothing to see here, just Eric Cantona cutting about Sauchiehall Street on a Friday night 😜
Was playing a gig at the Garage apparently.
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Two long departed icons: the much missed Anthony Bourdain enjoys a pint in the Old College Bar while filming "Parts Unknown" in 2015.
“From my very first time — it was Glasgow. My favourite city in Scotland. One of my favourite places on Earth.”
Photo: Anthony Bourdain
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The demolition of an adjoining tenement on Kelvinhaugh St reveals the lums and cupboards in this stunning 1972 image by Eric Watt.
Eric was an amateur photographer whose images captured a changing Glasgow from the 1950s onwards.
And he was also my physics teacher!
A thread...
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Looking up Renfield St from Gordon St on a sunny day in the 1950s.
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I've watched this beautiful garage/extension to a late 19th century villa on Langside Dr take shape over the past couple of years. Rather than do the bare minimum to squeeze it past planners, they've constructed something that looks like it's always been there. Amazing.
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Sorry "Glesga is DEID" punters, our city was looking very much alive this afternoon. Maybe venture out and enjoy it 😍
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Presses and lums.
An exposed gable after the demolition of an adjoining tenement looks like a soot-rendered circuit board. Thankfully no Santas appear to have got stuck up these chimneys.
A stunning image from gifted amateur photographer, and my old Physics teacher, Eric Watt.
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Long shadows and fairy lights at Glasgow Central, Christmas 1964, captured by who else but Oscar Marzaroli. Oscar would often patiently wait for the light to be just right. This he called "waiting for the magic". I think we can all agree that the wait was well worth it.
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At this time on a Saturday, Ashton Lane will be buzzing with people making merry at its many bars and restaurants. But back in 1933 it was lined with Victorian stables, mews buildings and small workshops. That's Jinty McGuinty's on the left.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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An incredible slice of bygone Glasgow life. Renfield St captured in glorious colour back in 1958. We're standing on the corner of St Vincent St outside where Bread Meats Bread is today. Across the road behind the tram we can see Piercy and Lawson's hat shop.
📷 Ian Semple
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The absolute legend that is Glen Michael, photographed by Grieve Thomson in Maidens yesterday at the ripe old age of 99.
Sitting down to watch Cartoon Cavalcade on a Sunday was magic. Rusti the dug, Paladin the lamp, and did I imagine a hairy hand thing called Boris? 🤔
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It's a snowy Saturday morning out there, and if you happen to be passing Saltoun St in a hot air balloon it probably looks a bit like this today.
Avril Paton's wonderful "Windows in the West", a timeless snatch of west end tenement life.
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There are precious few photos of tenements under construction, but this one's a beauty. Looking down the avenue and beyond to Victoria Rd in the 1870s, with the tenements on Queen's Drive going up on the left.
📷 George Washington Wilson
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34 years ago today the Glasgow Garden Festival opened its doors. As an 11 year old on a school trip from Nitshill, I thought "Garden Festival? Plants? That'll be rubbish!". How wrong I was 😂
Looking over the canting basin at Prince's Dock to the festival site beyond
PC: My own
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Luz train station, São Paulo. Why would I post such a thing? Well, the guts of that station were manufactured at the Saracen Foundry, Possilpark. The whole thing was assembled here in Glasgow before being dismantled and shipped out to Brazil.
#IronworkThursday
📷 D Monteiro
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Children play for the camera in the middle of Battlefield Rd in this 1890s photograph. On the far right you can see the tempietti atop the ward building that were demolished this morning.
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An oil rich country in 1980, 10 years after discovering oil in its coastal waters.
📷 Raymond Depardon
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On what would have been his 75th birthday, here's David Bowie in full flow at Green's Playhouse, Glasgow in 1973.
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Nothing to see here, just Guillermo del Toro casually cutting about Blythswood Square...👀
Here I stand in front of the Madelaine Smith home in Glasgow. Which was meticulously recreated by David Lean in his “wedding hift” eponymous film for Ann Todd.
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In March 2008, as I was making the short move from Shawlands to Clarkston, photographer Michael Prince was taking these exquisite photographs of Boni's Cafe at Clarkston Toll. It closed that year so I never had the privilege of visiting, but just look at the interior...
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Robbie Coltrane 1950-2022
In character as Danny McGlone, and immortalised by John Byrne.
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The beautiful mansion flats of Camphill Ave sweep dramatically up the hill. Designed by John Campbell McKellar in 1904, they feature gorgeous renaissance ornamentation such as aediculed windows and Ionic pilastered doorcases.
📷 Past Glasgow
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The West End has some cracking doorways. These are on Dowanhill St. I love the stained glass 😍
📷 Past Glasgow
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A bustling Renfield St captured in glorious colour back in 1958. We're standing on the corner of St Vincent St outside where Bread Meats Bread is today. Across the road behind the tram we can see Piercy and Lawson's hat shop.
Photo: Ian Semple
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We really should be thanking GB News. Thanks to them we'll never have to see Neil Oliver on our screens butchering our history ever again.
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Looking along Molendinar St from the Gallowgate, 23rd July 1968.
Photo: John Hume
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The last remaining Georgian townhouse on Charlotte St.
📷 Past Glasgow
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The PS Waverley might be smaller, but she's a damned sight prettier than the MSC Virtuosa as the two vessels pass on the River Clyde back in 2021.
📷 Stephen Henry/SWNS
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Peeking under the Central Station canopy in 1953 and last Friday.
Old Photo: Newsquest
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An aerial view of Glasgow's newest bridge.
📽️ Past Glasgow
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Ayr Station Hotel is still burning this morning. And only 12 days after this. What are the odds? 🧐
📢PRESS RELEASE 🔥 Breakthrough survey of Ayr
#Station
Hotel transforms debate on its future🔥🧱♻️Report shows that repair and reuse are perfectly practical and hotel is in much better condition than previously thought👍➡️
#Scotland
#Heritage
#Architecture
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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. What remains of it is now a car park.
📷 University of Glasgow
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Remember I mentioned that The Griffin would be reopening shortly? It seems the pub is now in the hands of
@IsleofSkyeBrew
and they'll be announcing the opening date next week 😍
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A wee bank holiday jaunt to Dunoon and I found this quite striking. I can almost see the man from the council with his pot of white paint, forlornly painting out each attraction as it disappeared from the town.
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Time for a Friday night jaunt over to the Thornwood Bar on Dumbarton Rd, pictured here on a dreich day in 1939.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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I see the Laurieston Bar is up for sale after 40 years in the Clancy family. I can only hope the new owners appreciate its unique interior and go about any changes with a light touch.
Yours for a mere £750k.
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The Glasgow underground photographed in 1975, prior to modernisation. I think this might be at Ibrox.
#Glasgow
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Brendan Fraser talking to Howard Stern about Glasgow as Gotham City in the aborted Batgirl series.
"It's...decaying..." 😬
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A striking shot from Raymond Depardon's two 1980 visits to Glasgow. We're on Carntyne Rd at the junction of Todd St. He said 'I was shocked by the poverty. I wasn’t expecting to find a population in the north of Europe that was so deprived.'
📷 Raymond Depardon
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A wee trip to the uncanny valley. These striking AI-generated images are what a computer thinks "Glasgow 1985" looks like. There are some outrageous jawlines, a creative approach to fingers and limbs, and anachronistic motors/hair dos, but I rather like them.
📷 Siobhán Walker
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I can't let
#NationalUmbrellaDay
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The Drooko Umbrella Co had 4 stores in Glasgow alone. Their slogan was: I walk the world a raintight fella, beneath the Joseph Wright Umbrella
These incredible ads were produced by Margaret & Frances Macdonald.
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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.
Photo: HES
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The hulking glass and iron sheds of St Enoch station, modelled after St Pancras in London, photographed in 1975. A year later the roofs would be removed, and a year after that the whole lot would come down.
📷 David Christie
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Awful to hear that the Overtoun Park bandstand in Rutherglen has been destroyed by mindless vandals.
It was manufactured by Walter MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry in Possilpark and was loaned to the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988.
📷 Grow 73
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A wee look back at 1988's Glasgow Garden Festival. I'm sure there was a downpour or two during the 152 days it was open. We're looking over the canting basin at Prince's Dock, to the festival site beyond.
Postcard: Past Glasgow
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Glasgow institution Coia's Cafe at its original location on the corner of Duke and Millerston Streets, photographed in September 1977.
📷 Urban Glasgow
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I've watched this beautiful garage/extension to a late 19th century villa on Langside Dr take shape over the past few years, and they're still at it. These gorgeous new gate posts have just been revealed 😍
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It's a toss up between St Enoch Station and Hotel and the Old College on High Street. St Enoch it is.
What's one building, structure or location that has been demolished that you wish was still around to see, walk through, explore or practice photography in once again?
For me, its the Conner Stamping Plant in Detroit, Michigan. You?
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So much of how Glasgow is run resembles Stonybridge Town Council. This isn't how properly run cities do things.
Going to see
@ArcticMonkeys
at Bellahouston Park on Sunday?
Please be aware that there will be no Subway services after 6pm and the system will not be operating when the concert finishes.
#GlasgowSubway
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A late 1950s photo of a tramcar at Kelvinbridge, shot in glorious colour.
Photo: W.D. McMillan
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This 1930s aerial shot packs a lot in. The obvious highlights are the Royal Infirmary, Cathedral and Necropolis. Today the area is a chaotic tangle of roads servicing the M8 and only a few tenements remain.
Photo: Glasgow City Archives
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A very happy St Mungo's Day to you all, from the city he founded.
Australian street artist Smug brought him to a High St gable end in 2018. It depicts Mungo with St Serf's miraculously revived pet robin, "the bird that never flew".
#glasgow
📷 Past Glasgow
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The Glasgow cliché: an old building earmarked for demolition and redevelopment goes up in flames over a bank holiday weekend...🤨
As Toyah once sang, it's a mystereee....
Here's one of my own snaps of the Old College Bar from 2019.
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Tenement typologies of the south side, the first in an occasional series.
3-11 Camphill Ave, built 1903 in the Glasgow Free Style. The arch-head windows at ground floor level are an interesting detail. More than half of the windows are original.
📷 Past Glasgow
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One icon engineered in Glasgow passes under another icon engineered in Glasgow.
PS Waverley, with her paddle boxes chattering, gives a blast on the steam whistle as the twin decks of Tower Bridge rise to salute her.
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Glasgow has been standing in for the US on film over the past year, but none of the set dressing comes close to this atmospheric neon-lit shot of Argyle St under the Heilenman's Umbrella in 1955. But for the wee Austinm we could be in Chicago or New York.
Photo: Reach
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A pair of Glesga wifies struggling up Garnet St in the snow in 1952.
Photo: Newsquest
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Happy birthday to the University of Glasgow, founded on this day in 1451.
This stunning aerial view was taken in 1966. The triangle of tenements at the bottom was demolished so University Ave could be realigned with Highburgh Rd.
📷 Glasgow Uni
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Glasgow Central Station is 145 years old today. Here's a pin-sharp photo of the tobacco kiosk, taken in 1936. All the necessities of life are taken care of...
Tobacco? ✅
Gin? ✅
Chocolate? ✅
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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This ad for the Beresford Hotel featured on the back cover of the "Official Guide to Glasgow", 1947. Built for the 1938 Empire Exhibition, it featured rooftop kennels for guests travelling with canine companions. It was designed, owned, and operated by William Beresford Inglis.
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Long shadows and fairy lights at Glasgow Central, Christmas 1964. Captured by the inimitable Oscar Marzaroli who was waiting for, and found, the magic that day.
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Happy 80th birthday to the Big Yin, Glasgow's very own Sir Billy Connolly, born
#OTD
in 1942.
📷 Ronnie Anderson
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@LostGlasgow
A photograph of the same refurbished tenement on Saltoun St.
Photo: John Gilbert Architects
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Santa has ben good to this pair of lads on Crown St, Gorbals back in December 1970, bringing astronaut suits and space hoppers down the lum for them.
📷 TSPL
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Well done to Switzerland who progress to the quarter finals. In honour of this momentous achievement, here's a picture of Glasgow's Alpen Lodge 🇨🇭😂
#FRASUI
Photo: Alpen Lodge
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So long to Big Tam, a man of many faces but only the one accent. Here he is presenting "The Bowler and the Bunnet" in 1967.
#RIPSeanConnery
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The interior of Princes Square, Glasgow, prior to demolition and redevelopment. The Buchanan St side is formed from John Baird's Prince of Wales Buildings facade, and features decorative metalwork by artist Alan Dawson.
📷 Newsquest
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A wee thread of threads that brings together all of the then and now videos in one place.
Osborne St at Old Wynd:
I've been out taking some shots for the website so here's a wee preview. This one didn't need too much manipulation to get a good match. The year is 1910 but where are we? (nae Googling).
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This is just the weirdest take on a major world sporting event being successfully staged in Glasgow.
Roads closed as cycling event reaches final stages
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A cracking aerial shot showing the Kelvingrove and surrounding area c1930. At the gushet of Old Dumbarton Rd and Argyle St is St Enoch Free Church, 1872 by James Sellars.
Photo: Glasgow City Archives
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I reckon you'd feel like the lord of the manor if you had this little house sandwiched between two tenement blocks on Cartside Rd 😍
#Glasgow
📷 Past Glasgow
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A pin-sharp photo of the tobacco kiosk at Glasgow Central, taken in 1936.
Tobacco? ✅
Gin? ✅
Chocolate? ✅
Photo: Glasgow City Archives
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A sunny day in Glasgow, 1950s style. These ladies are enjoying a spot of sunbathing on the roof of the former Lewis's department store. In the distance is the giant cooling tower of Pinkston Power Station and the arched frontage of Queen St Station.
Photo: Newsquest
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Finished off the weekend with a wee bike ride down to see the new bridge. I thought it might have quietened down, but it was still heaving with curious punters giving it the once over. More pictures in the replies...
#Glasgow
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William M. Whyte's brilliantly bonkers tenement on Broomhill Dr, built between 1902-4.
📷 Past Glasgow
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Beauty and the beast.
The P.S. Waverley gets an unlikely escort at Greenock.
📷 Bob Dougans
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A very happy birthday to the legend that is Billy Connolly, 81 years young today.
Here he is alongside fellow Scottish cultutal icon Alasdair Gray at the launch of Gray's masterwork "Lanark" at the Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 25th February 1981.
📷 Alan Bissett
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Some fab footage of the retired Metro-Cammell Glasgow subway trains being tested in March 1978. Shared on Facebook by Bob Lennox Docherty: "I worked in the PTE when they were introduced. Here is a short film [...] when the first car was tested at Broomloan Rd workshops in Govan"
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A photograph that I return to frequently. John Hume's lens is pointed at the intersection of Molendinar St and Gallowgate in 1968. Today the site is a car park.
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