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February 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Standing next to the Boyd Orr building and looking up through University Gardens to the University of Glasgow's Gilbert Scott building, with the James McCune Smith Learning Hub on the right.

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February 14, 2026 at 12:18 PM
This week's Friday pub is The Gallery at 203 Buchanan St. A perennial Subcrawl stop, it was known for many years as the Dow Jones, and also went by Butler's and the Pig and Firkin in the 80s. It was lost during the redevelopment of the upper section of Buchanan St from 2010.
February 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The spire of the former Crosshill Queen's Park Church of 1873 glowing orange above Queen's Park Bowling Club in the setting winter sun.

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February 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
If you're fed up with your work, it could always be worse. Spare a thought for this intrepid window cleaner, 6 floors up on the Central Hotel in Hope St, with only the steadying hand of his female colleague between him and oblivion.

📷 Daily Record

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February 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
An aerial view of post-war housing in Pollok, photographed in June 1966. That's Linthaugh Rd crossing the frame before curving off into the distance, with Bonnyholm Ave nearest the camera.

📷 Reach

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February 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Looking down into Hope St from high up in the Central Hotel, back in 1969. The dome of the Clyde Navigation Trust building is visible above the rooftops on the left, while down on the street we have the Norseman Bar (now the Solid Rock) and the Gondola restaurant.

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February 11, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Queen's Park Secondary School as it looked during the early 1980s. The school was built by the Cathcart Parish School Board and was accommodated in four buildings the earliest of which opened in 1874.

📷 Glasgow City Archives

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February 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
An early 20th century view looking along Stevenson Drive (now Deanston Drive) on the south side of Glasgow.

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February 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM
The kiosk at the Battlefield Rest, photographed by Chris Doak in 1982.

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February 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Robert Billings' dramatic, 1854 baronial warehouse for J & W Campbell, on the corner of Ingram and Brunswick Streets. It was dismantled from within and the façade retained when, in 1988, it became one of the first successful developments in the "Merchant City".

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February 8, 2026 at 11:34 AM
A wonderful view of Shawlands Cross, photographed in the 1960s. We're on the Kilmarnock Road side of Samuel Dow's bar, now the Granary, looking north to Neil Campbell Duff's handsome Glasgow Savings Bank building of 1906.

📷 Newsquest

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February 7, 2026 at 10:58 AM
This week's Friday pub is the Scotia Bar on Stockwell St. One of a few howfs laying claim to being Glasgow's oldest pub, it dates from 1792. In early years it was popular with workers & seamen from the docks & shipyards, and passengers from nearby ferries.

📷 Glasgow City Archives

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February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Glasgow City Council are finally relieving Derek Souter of the Egyptian Halls on Union St via CPO. Souter is a provaricating arse with no intention of putting his hand in his pocket.

Here it is in the late 70s, courtesy of the JR James Archive.

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February 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Saracen St, Possilpark, photographed in 1937. The area is almost as old as the city itself, with the first mention of "Possele" dating to the 13th century.

📷 Glasgow City Archives

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February 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Having bagged the UK Tree of the Year award, the elegant 170 year old Argyle St Ash is in the running for European Tree of the Year.

You know what to do:

www.treeoftheyear.org/vote

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February 4, 2026 at 10:18 AM
It's 1968 and we're looking south along North St with the Mitchell Library on the right. This scene would be radically altered that same year, as the M8 was gouged through the city, obliterating the buildings on the left.

📷 Glasgow City Archives

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February 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM
It was demolished in 1925-6 when the congregation moved to St Enoch's Hogganfield.
February 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
St Enoch's Parish Church once stood slap bang in the middle of St Enoch Square. The first church, designed by James Jaffray, was erected in 1780 but was rebuilt to a David Hamilton design in 1827, with Hamilton incorporating the original spire.

📷 Newsquest

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February 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
St Enoch Square, Glasgow, photographed in 1973. James Miller's quirky 1896 Flemish Renaissance ticket office originally served as both a booking office and the headquarters of the original Glasgow District Subway Railway Company.

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February 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
A slice of 70s Govan, looking east along Langlands Rd in 1976. That police call box on the left is handy because we can place it on the corner of Greenfield St. The tenements are gone, replaced by modern housing, and the street layout is now much altered.

📷 Douglas Nicol
February 1, 2026 at 11:38 AM
It's the mid 90s and we're looking up the precipitous slope of Scott St with the Cotton Cub on the left. How many of you have stumbled down that hill at chucking out time? 😏

📷 Dave Henniker

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January 31, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Looking south west down Byres Rd from just in front of the Botanic Gardens on Great Western Road.

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January 31, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Glasgow mornings, 1985.

Same streets. Different time. 🎶

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January 31, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Sauchiehall St, Glasgow, photographed in 1975. Alexander Thomson's category A-listed Grecian Chambers of 1868 is pictured sporting a flaking paint job. The Girl Guides Association is in residence as the dental hospital looms in the background.

📷 Glasgow City Archives

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January 31, 2026 at 10:30 AM