Glasgow Times History

22/09/2024

From 500 in the UK to just three in Scotland, this restaurant is just a distant memory for Glasgow 🍔😥
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20/09/2024

📷Recognise Central Station?
We took this photo inside in 1985.

19/09/2024

📷Recognise the entrance to Mitchell Theatre in 1985?

19/09/2024

It was the perfect bench that gave Jack and Victor a view of the whole park... but can you find it in Glasgow?

Do you know where you can find the famous 'hot seat' from Still Game in Glasgow?

18/09/2024

📷Who remembers Thomson’s in Glasgow?
Here is a picture from our archives in 1985.

18/09/2024

From Two Doors Down to Still Game... what happened to the stars of Gregory's Girl? ⚽
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17/09/2024

📷Here is a picture from our archives today.
Robot dancers on Argyle Street attracted a big crowd in 1984.
Who remembers seeing this?

17/09/2024

'The owner of a building has a duty of care - especially so in the city centre' 🏰

The demolition of Glasgow’s famous India Buildings is only the “tip of iceberg” says a local stonemason, who believes the lack of people being…

16/09/2024

📷Do you recognise this East End location?
We found this shot of Springfield Road in Dalmarnock in 1984 in our archives.

15/09/2024

Long before it served cocktails in the late-night piano bar and hosted fashion shows in the private rooms...

The remarkable past lives of this Glasgow cocktail bar and club.

15/09/2024

Who doesn't love a fresh roll or a 99 with raspberry sauce? These Glasgow cafes are all over 100 years old - and still going strong ☕🍦
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15/09/2024

📷Paisley High Street was bustling with activity in 1980.
Who remembers some of the shops in the image.

14/09/2024

📷Do you recognise Pollok shopping centre in 1980?
What are your memories of the shopping centre?

13/09/2024

📷Did you ever stand in this queue?
The queue was huge at the Passport Office in Glasgow in June 1989.

12/09/2024

📷There was lots of activity in the backcourt in Possil in 1989.
Can you remember the streets in between the backcourt?

11/09/2024

📷Did you ever visit Scotland Street school?
⚽Youngsters had fun during a visit to the Scotland Street School in 1989

10/09/2024

📷 Youngsters enjoy a game of football in 1981 Garthamlock.
Do you have an old Glasgow memory? Send us your story: [email protected]

10/09/2024

“Instantly there were men running, shouting ‘get the hell out of there’....it was chaos. It was terrifying.”
Glasgow soldiers speak about the Kiel Canal parachute disaster 50 years on.
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10/09/2024

'They deserve not to be forgotten'

Moments into the training exercise, paratrooper Hugh McGarvey realised things had gone badly wrong.

09/09/2024

📷Who remembers this famous Glasgow slogan?
The picture was taken from 1980 in our archives.

08/09/2024

📷Work was in full swing in 1980 behind the Buchanan Street Subway Station.
So different from the way it looks now, right?
Do you have a memory of old Glasgow to share? E-mail [email protected]

07/09/2024

📷Do you recognise this spot?
🌉A view from our archives of the Pollokshaws East Railway Station in 1980.
Do you have a memory to share? E-mail [email protected]

06/09/2024

📷 A city worker got set to fit a new street sign at the Italian Centre.
This picture was taken from our archive of 1990 Glasgow.
Do you have a memory to share of the city from that time? E-mail: [email protected]

06/09/2024

Oh, this is interesting.

GLASGOW’s great department stores, like Lewis’s, Trerons and Pettigrew Stephen, are fondly remembered.

05/09/2024

📷Did you ever catch the Auchenshuggle bus?
🚌Here is our throwback picture of the bus on the road in 1990 Glasgow.
Do you have a Glasgow memory you think would make a story? E-mail [email protected]

01/09/2024

"The building has a culinary history stretching back decades - and it is thought to be a city first." 🍽
Inside the story of the 'first' Italian restaurant in Glasgow 🍝
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The story of the 'first' Italian restaurant in Glasgow that survived for 40 years.

01/09/2024

Did you know about this?

FEW Glasgow men had as many honours bestowed upon him as Kirkman Finlay, powerful merchant and former Lord Provost.

01/09/2024

“The store was absolutely ‘out of the ark’ but I have so many fond memories of working there."
This Glasgow department store was 'straight out of a 70s sitcom' 😂
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