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 #glasgow

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

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 #glasgow

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. #glasgow

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. #Glasgow

Sad to hear that Freddie the cat, AKA the Mayor of Shawlands, has gone over the rainbow bridge at the grand old age of 20. A kenspeckle figure around Skirving St, he'd bless the chosen few by selecting their car bonnet or roof for an afternoon snooze. #Glasgow

Hillhead Burgh Hall, designed by George Bell of Clarke and Bell, photographed in the 1960s. It opened in 1873 and was demolished less than a century later in 1970. The site was later used for the new Hillhead Library in 1972. 📷 News quest #Glasgow

The People's Palace on Glasgow Green. It was designed by the City Engineer A.B. MacDonald and decorated with sculptures representing Art, Science, Shipbuilding, Industry and Progress by William Kellock Brown. #Glasgow

I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history. This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things". yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...

This week's Friday pub is Speaker's Corner, photographed here in the 70s by Stuart Neville. Formerly a retail store, a pub was opened here in 1963 as Carr's Bar, named after licensee Partick Joseph Carr. In recent years you might recognise it as Driftwood. 📷 Stuart Neville

A spooky early c20th scene showing the Trongate by moonlight. It's all post-production trickery of course, but even in the daylight you might find one or two punters howling at the moon up by the Tron Steeple... #Glasgow #Halloween

The University of Glasgow looking terrifying in this spooky, moonlit postcard view of around 1904 🎃 #Glasgow #Halloween

The United Cooperative Bakery Society building on McNeil St, 1885-1914 Bruce & Hay. A turreted and onion-domed fever dream of a building, it was demolished in 1977 after the decline in retail cooperation made it unprofitable. 📷 Eric Watt #Glasgow gables.in

Gorbals, 1948, and Bert Hardy has his lens trained on these young lads turning the old Gorbals Burying Ground into an unlikely playground. 📷 Bert Hardy #Glasgow #Halloween

One of the last remaining general stores in the Gorbals, photographed by Jürgen Schadeberg in 1968. Perhaps around this time of year, going by the advertised "Batman suits" 🦇 🎃 📷 Jürgen Schadeberg #Glasgow

William Leiper's Victorian Gothic factory of 1892 for James Templeton was modelled on the Doge's palace in Venice. Templeton was told that any factory at such a prominent spot must enhance the area. I think Leiper met the brief. #Glasgow

A Halloween pillar box topper, spotted in Balloch at the weekend. It looks like the Grim Reaper at the back has taken his scythe to the crowd at the front 🎃 #Halloween

Some brilliant footage of the Barras in 1978, featuring many of the market's patter merchants who could draw in a crowd in order to sell their wares. #Glasgow

An atmospheric scene from 1949, with the Forth and Clyde canal dominated by the looming presence of the Pinkston power station's enormous cooling tower. The gloom is pierced by a Victorian gas lamp. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

The McLennan Arch photographed in its second location at the end of Charlotte St in 1975. It was salvaged from the demolition of the c18th Assembly Rooms on Ingram St around 1892. It moved to the Saltmarket entrance of Glasgow Green in 1991. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #glasgow

This week's Friday pub is the Horse Shoe Bar on Drury St, pictured here before opening time in August 1977. It's nice to see that some things don't change. Sláinte! 📷 Duncan McCallum #Glasgow

The corner of Byres Rd and Great George St, photographed in 1981. #Glasgow

More from Glasgow, 1978, featuring Eglinton Toll, the Plaza Ballroom, the carnival at the Kelvin Hall, finished off with a sing song in Curlers. Look out for psychiatrist RD Laing talking about his dad's visits to the Plaza 😂 #glasgow

Various scenes around Glasgow, starting in Central Station, shot in 1978 as part of a documentary featuring R.D. Laing. #Glasgow

The Curlers on Byres Rd, photographed in 1978 while Hillhead underground station was being rebuilt as part of the system's modernisation. #Glasgow

Alexander Beith MacDonald's magnificent City Improvement Trust tenements of 1905 at the corner of Stockwell St and Bridgegate, photographed in 1975. Bernard Corrigan's fishmonger moved round to Howard St, and is now on Keppochhill Place. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

Another great bit of Glaswegiana at Kinning Park Antique Centre today: an original framed playbill from the Britannia Panopticon music hall. #Glasgow

Spotted at Kinning Park Antique Centre today, the perfect gift for the architecture nerd in your life: a complete set of framed architectural plans for A.N. Paterson's Liberal Club, at the corner of Nelson Mandela Place and Buchanan St. #glasgow

75-85 St Vincent St, photographed in 1975. The most prominent feature is Daniel Brown's bar on the left, just a few years before it would close. Daniel Brown took over these premises in 1872, and he built an institution that served generations of Glaswegians for over a century. 📷 City Archives

The low setting sun provided some spectacular light at Kirk o' Shotts today. If you've travelled along the M8 at night you might have seen it illuminated off to the south. Its days as a church are sadly numbered, as it's scheduled to close shortly. #Scotland #graveyard #history

Looking from the corner of Bothwell St over to the entrance of the Central Hotel on Gordon St in 1975. #Glasgow 📷 Glasgow City Archives

Honk honk! A wee jaunt east today, and looked up to see a skein of geese flying in formation, just outside of Linlithgow. #Scotland

The digital age provides its ups and downs. On the bright side, I'm reminded that, 10 years ago to the day, I got out of bed on a cold October morning and went for a bike ride via Glasgow Green. #glasgow

A tantalising snippet of 35mm footage showing Glasgow Central Station at night time in the 1960s. If you look below the electronic ad screens, you'll see the old manual Caledonian Railway destination boards. 📽️ Kinolibrary #glasgow

Langside Hill Free Church, 1897, by Alexander Skirving. It stopped operating as a church in 1979 and was gutted by fire in 1989. The shell was saved from demolition when it was converted to a bar and restaurant in the 1990s. Nearby Skirving Street is named after the architect. #glasgow

A belter of an aerial shot of central Glasgow from around 1930. The most prominent feature is the vast glass roof canopy of Glasgow Central, one of the world's largest, featuring 48,000 panes making up 2.2 square miles of glazing What else can you spot? 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

West End tenements, from Carrington St all the way up to Park Rd, with Great Western Rd to the right, and West Princes St to the left. #Glasgow #aerialphotography #dji #drone

A fantastic colour shot of the "Old Swan" tenement at the junction of Pollokshaws and Haggs Roads, around 1968. In 1971 it became the first Housing Treatment Area, leading the way for subsequent tenement rehabilitation schemes. 📷 Colin Duncan #Glasgow

"Glesga? Deid mate. It's a ghost toon these days". Looking south down a deserted Buchanan St, with James Miller’s quirky 1896 Flemish Renaissance subway building visible in the distance. #glasgow

The Magnum Photo Archive has recently published 5 unseen photos from Raymond Depardon's now iconic Glasgow 1980 series, discovered during a digitisation project. 📷 Magnum/Raymond Depardon #Glasgow

There was some spectacular light in Shawlands last night. Looking along Pollokshaws Rd to the Crossmyloof Mansions gushet of 1900. Destination: the Granary, to watch Scotland pull off an unlikely 3-1 win over Greece. #Glasgow

One of the most eclectic tenement facades in the city can be found on Broomhill Dr. Designed by William M. Whyte, who was also responsible for Balmoral Crescent off Queen's Drive, it was built between 1902-4. The style can only be described as "baronial fairytale". #glasgow

Condemned tenements on the corner of Preston St and Cathcart Rd, Govanhill, shot in 1978 shortly before demolition. 📷 JR James Archive #Glasgow

Looking across Woodlands Rd to the Park district on Woodlands Hill. It was first laid out for housing in the 1830s and 1840s, with the houses on the upper slopes designed by architect Charles Wilson and built 1855-1863. #glasgow

This Art Deco building on Great Western Rd was built 1929-31 to designs by James Lindsay Jnr for Walter Hubbard, to house his bakery and tea room. For many years it was a pub of the same name with, ahem, a famous nightclub upstairs. Cleopatra's aka Clatty Pat's is now Kitty O'Shea's. #Glasgow

Looking down into George Square from the top of the City Chambers in the 1950s. The curved roof of Queen St Station is visible, with the Classical portico of Wardlaw's Kirk, dead centre. 📷 Ian Milne, John Hume #glasgow

Early 20th century red sandstone tenements on Cranworth St in the West End, illuminated by the late evening sunshine last Friday. #Glasgow

The Broomielaw, featuring JJ Burnet's Clyde Navigation Trust building of 1883-86 and extended 1906-08 by Alexander Muir and Sons. #glasgow

A wee jaunt out to the Pavillion in the storm last night to see Stuart Mitchell 😍 #glasgow