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IT had been on the drawing board for more than a decade, and its opening in September 1981 came at a time, said the Evening Times, when the whole area...
IT had been on the drawing board for more than a decade, and its opening in September 1981 came at a time, said the Evening Times, when the whole area...
“FULL of good characters and old treasures,” someone writes on TripAdvisor on the subject of The Barras. “Or is that old characters & good...
“FULL of good characters and old treasures,” someone writes on TripAdvisor on the subject of The Barras. “Or is that old characters & good...
FEBRUARY 1969. Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Goodall (centre), head of Glasgow CID, addresses members of the Marine Division after a Glasgow bus...
FEBRUARY 1969. Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Goodall (centre), head of Glasgow CID, addresses members of the Marine Division after a Glasgow bus...
SATURDAY, May 29, 1943, was the opening day of Glasgow’s ‘Wings for Victory’ campaign, and contributions in excess of £3.12 million were made....
SATURDAY, May 29, 1943, was the opening day of Glasgow’s ‘Wings for Victory’ campaign, and contributions in excess of £3.12 million were made....
ON a general election visit to Glasgow in September 1974, Lord Hailsham, the former Lord Chancellor, attacked Enoch Powell, spoke of the consequences...
EMPLOYEES at a garage in Glasgow had to run for their lives as a railway tunnel crumbled without warning under their feet. Passengers on a...
VALENTINE’S Day, 1980, and what is occupying the minds of dozens of Glaswegians is not so much romance and red roses as the damp condition of their...
ON the last day of April 1954, Glasgow’s venerable Royal Exchange Building began a new chapter when it reopened as Stirling’s Library and the...
ON a general election visit to Glasgow in September 1974, Lord Hailsham, the former Lord Chancellor, attacked Enoch Powell, spoke of the consequences...
JOCK Stein was appointed manager of the Scottish national team in May 1965, and hit the ground running, flying from Renfrew Airport to watch Poland,...
“HERE they are,” the newspaper advertisements beckoned in May 1974, “the pride of Inter-City, the trains that lop almost an hour off the...
BY mid-November 1937, the season-ticket department at the forthcoming Empire Exhibition was doing excellent business. More than 63,500 had been sold...
BY mid-November 1937, the season-ticket department at the forthcoming Empire Exhibition was doing excellent business. More than 63,500 had been sold...
SECURITY measures said to approach those put in place for the then-recent New York visit by the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, were taken at...
ROBERT Donat had already built up an excellent reputation through his stage and screen work - including, of course, the films The 39 Steps, and...
ROBERT Donat had already built up an excellent reputation through his stage and screen work - including, of course, the films The 39 Steps, and...
SECURITY measures said to approach those put in place for the then-recent New York visit by the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, were taken at...
IN October 1962, more than four years after suffering serious injuries in the Munich air disaster that claimed the lives of 23 people, including eight...
IN October 1962, more than four years after suffering serious injuries in the Munich air disaster that claimed the lives of 23 people, including eight...
IN August 1951, in front of 80,000 fans, Celtic defeated Aberdeen to lift the St Mungo Cup, a Festival of Britain competition for the Scottish...
IN August 1951, in front of 80,000 fans, Celtic defeated Aberdeen to lift the St Mungo Cup, a Festival of Britain competition for the Scottish...
“MAN with toy gun in £1000 bank raid”, read the Evening Times splash headline on April 11, 1972. A bearded man had held up a branch of the Bank...
“MAN with toy gun in £1000 bank raid”, read the Evening Times splash headline on April 11, 1972. A bearded man had held up a branch of the Bank...
BEATLEMANIA was all very well but, when it came to provoking public bedlam amongst their fans, Glasgow beat group, The Beatstalkers, ran the Fab Four...
BEATLEMANIA was all very well but, when it came to provoking public bedlam amongst their fans, Glasgow beat group, The Beatstalkers, ran the Fab Four...
IN January 1965 Judith Hart, then a Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Scottish Office, embarked on a tour of schools, colleges,...
IN January 1965 Judith Hart, then a Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Scottish Office, embarked on a tour of schools, colleges,...
IT was not an occasion that the Queen felt she could overlook - not when the “Old Lady of Buchanan Street - namely, this newspaper - was marking her...
IT was not an occasion that the Queen felt she could overlook - not when the “Old Lady of Buchanan Street - namely, this newspaper - was marking her...
IT has often been said of the Grade-A Garnethill Synagogue, built in 1879-81, that it is the finest example of high Victorian synagogue architecture...
IT has often been said of the Grade-A Garnethill Synagogue, built in 1879-81, that it is the finest example of high Victorian synagogue architecture...
ANTONY Armstrong-Jones, later the Earl of Snowdon, and husband to Princess Margaret, was a celebrated photographer who also had a lifelong interest in...
ANTONY Armstrong-Jones, later the Earl of Snowdon, and husband to Princess Margaret, was a celebrated photographer who also had a lifelong interest in...
GLASGOW’S Lord Provost, John Stewart, met some notable circus acts in late 1935 when he opened the Christmas Carnival at the city’s Kelvin Hall....
GLASGOW’S Lord Provost, John Stewart, met some notable circus acts in late 1935 when he opened the Christmas Carnival at the city’s Kelvin Hall....
THREE years before he became Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, as Churchill’s Foreign Secretary, visited Glasgow and spoke before the local Unionist...
THREE years before he became Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, as Churchill’s Foreign Secretary, visited Glasgow and spoke before the local Unionist...
SHOPPERS in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street were startled to see “suffragists” in period dress agitating in favour of proportional representation at...
SHOPPERS in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street were startled to see “suffragists” in period dress agitating in favour of proportional representation at...
A QUIET Sunday at the end of September 1956 ended in tragedy for one family after a fire at their top-flat home in a street in Glasgow. For nearly...
A QUIET Sunday at the end of September 1956 ended in tragedy for one family after a fire at their top-flat home in a street in Glasgow. For nearly...
THE order books were full at the shipyards on the Clyde and elsewhere when, in July 1936, Lady Dunlop (above) launched the Queen Adelaide, a cargo...
THE order books were full at the shipyards on the Clyde and elsewhere when, in July 1936, Lady Dunlop (above) launched the Queen Adelaide, a cargo...
PRINCESS Margaret and her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones, came to Glasgow in April 1961 and spent half-an-hour looking at pictures on display at...