Blythswood Square gardens, 1955. Designed by architect John Brash, the Regency houses of Blythswood Square surround an elegant central garden. Workers from nearby offices are enjoying summer sunshine in the garden during their lunch break. 📷Partick Camera Club #Glasgow

A brilliant 1933 aerial view that highlights the changing face of Bridgeton, Glasgow. The area was once dominated by industry, with Duncan Stewart's London Rd ironworks in the centre of the image. 📷 HES #Glasgow

This week's Friday pub, in honour of the Swiss playing on Sunday, is the Alpen Lodge on Hope St. Originally a tobacconists, it was opened in 1970 by Louis Evaristi. Downstairs on a Saturday is an experience, just expect to be shooshed if you talk while the turn is on 😁 #Glasgow

Looking up Union St to Renfield St, with John Honeyman's furniture warehouse of 1872, better known as the Ca' d'Oro, on the right. It's hard to believe that, 8 days from now, all the barriers, heavy equipment, and skips will be gone and this street will reopen for the first time since the March fire

A wee follow up to the drone footage. Some details that help illustrate why Egyptian Halls is worth celebrating and saving. Cleared of traffic and scaffolding, you can see the potential of Union St. Even after the fire in March, it's such an architecturally rich and diverse thoroughfare. #Glasgow

I took advantage of a rare visit into the office today to capture a few shots of Alexander Thomson's Egyptian Halls, now scaffolding-free after almost 20 years. With the street due to reopen next week, and new scaffolding going up to facilitate repairs, who knows when we might see it again #Glasgow

A handsome gushet tenement photographed in 1960 on one of Glasgow's great lost urban spaces. This is Bothwell Circus, a huge viaduct that spanned Bishop St, and connected Bothwell and St Vincent Streets. 📷 HES #Glasgow

With the news yesterday that legendary Glasgow club The Garage is up for sale, here's a real rarity. It's 1994, and the venue previously known as the Mayfair, has just opened on Sauchiehall St. Missing is the familiar truck cab above the entrance. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow

Looking along Gordon St from the corner of Union St in 1977. John Honeyman's cast iron fronted Venetian-inspired Ca' d'Oro building of 1872 for furniture retailers F & J Smith's still has the concrete mansard roof added by Gillespie, Kidd, & Coia in the 1920s. 📷 J.R. James Collection #Glasgow

Looking west along Parliamentary Rd in 1964. The pub on the corner of Pladda St was the Lemon Tree. There had been a pub there since 1863, and it was named after the proprietor from the 1950s, Richard Lemon. This block was demolished the year this photo was taken. 📷 John Hume

Sunday afternoon strollers on Glasgow Green in 1910, decked out in their finery. This area was known as Skinner's Green due to the flesh market that was once held here. The Winter Gardens, 12 years old here, awaits the next round of National Lottery heritage funding #Glasgow

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 #Glasgow

Me hearing about England's heatwave for the 40th time this morning, while it's 15 degrees and drizzly outside.

A dreich old day on the cards, so a timely thump on the doormat this morning as Lex Lamb's @lexlamb.bsky.social definitive account of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival arrived. Congratulations to Lex on a fantastic book 👏 You can get your hands on it through their website. gardenfestivalbook.com

Our penultimate look at the city as it was in 1962, starting with the lawns in front of the Kelvingrove. Next we approach Charing Cross, unrecognisable when compared to the traffic canyon of today's M8, before turning onto Sauchiehall St. #Glasgow #history #1960s

30 years ago, on this day in 1996, Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art opened in the former Royal Exchange. Here it is photographed from Ingram St on a sunny day in 1976. The Duke has yet to acquire his distinctive headgear 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow #otd

This week's Friday pub is Hubbard's on Great Western Rd. 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. #Glasgow #fridaypub

Barefoot children on King St (now Millroad St), Calton, photographed in the 1890s. King St appears on the earliest plan of the Calton and was thought to be named after King George II. 📷 Glasgow Uni #Glasgow

More from 1962, starting around Bell St featuring some classic fire appliances, briefly back to George Square, and then along past Kelvingrove, with a few lingering shots of the trams that would disappear that same year. #Glasgow

On this day, 125 years ago, two Glasgow firefighters were killed while attending a fire at Bowman's Economic Store on the corner of Miller and Argyle Streets. #Glasgow

Looking along a bustling Argyle St during Glasgow's year as European City of Culture in 1990. In the distance is the dome of Horatio Bromhead's Free Classical warehouse of 1903 for Campbell, Stewart, and McDonalds, now home to Fraser's. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow

An incredible shot of Queen St with Pinkston Power Station's huge cooling tower looming over the train station in 1965. Pinkston was built in 1901 to generate electricity for Glasgow's trams and got a camo paint job during WWII to conceal it from the Luftwaffe. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

A busy postcard view looking north up Union St, showing the now lost corner with Gordon St in the 1930s. Postcard from my own collection. #Glasgow

Argyle St, 1985, and shoppers brave the rain in search of a bargain. Electrical retailer Dixon's can be seen on the right, while on the left is Lewis's department store. Dixon's disappeared from the high street in 2006, and Lewis's closed its doors in 1991. 📷 Scottish Life Archive #Glasgow

More general views of the city in 1962, this time focussing on Argyle St and Trongate, with tramcars and trolleybuses at Glasgow Cross. #Glasgow #history #1960s

Some amazing general views of the city, shot from a moving car in 1962. We start on the south bank of the Clyde, and then head into the city centre. #glasgow #history #1960s

The Pollokshaws Tollhouse, photographed in 1954. Pollokshaws began as an independent weaving settlement to the south of Glasgow in the early 18th century. It was an important crossing place of two major roads: the Glasgow to Irvine Road and the Rutherglen to Govan Road. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow

20 Brunswick St, 18th March 1913. Sir John A. MacDonald, first prime minister of Canada, was born in the building above on 11th January 1815. 14 years after this photo was taken James Halliday would open the Mitre Bar at nos. 12-14. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

This week's Friday pub is the Mitre Bar on Brunswick St. Opened in 1927 by publican James Halliday, the building was previously occupied by Watson & Company, Bakers Utensil Makers. #Glasgow #FridayPub

A muggy and thundery Friday lies ahead, but we've had a pleasant few days of sunshine. Here's one from Wednesday evening. We're looking at Neil Campbell Duff's beautifully ornate corner tenement of 1904 for the Glasgow Savings Bank, completed a year before the New City Rd branch, also by Duff.

An oldie but a goody, and appropriate after a warm summer's day. Sunset on the Clyde. Postcard from my own collection. #Glasgow

James Miller's impressive neo-classical headquarters of 1927 on St Vincent St for the Union Bank of Scotland, photographed just after it was completed. It was apparently inspired by the work of American firm York and Sawyer. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

Bingham's Pond off Great Western Road, c 1955. Four boys are shown sitting looking down at rowing boats on the pond on a hot summer day. The pond was created in the 1880s and took its name from the Bingham family, who hired out boats in summer and organised skating in winter. 📷 Glasgow Museums

Oh well, the perennial disappointment hits harder when you apparently have good players but they're absolutely rotten. Who should be the next Scotland manager? 🤔 Hampden 1965 👍

Sitting in the beer garden at Linen in Shawlands admiring this prince among gushets, the Crossmyloof Mansions tenement. #Glasgow

While we're on the subject of Brazil and Pele, here's a remarkable shot of the Brazil icon at Portland Park, the home of Troon FC, then Troon Juniors. 📷 PA Media #worldcup

This evening in Miami, Scotland take on Brazil in the World Cup yet again. While it might not quite be do or die, I'm sure we're all hoping for a repeat of the result when Pele visited Glasgow 60 years ago. 📷 Mirrorpix #Glasgow

The last time Alexander "Greek" Thomson's Egyptian Halls on Union St wasn't clad in scaffolding, captured by an early Google Streetview car in June 2008. #Glasgow

The facade of Alexander "Greek" Thomson's Egyptian Halls has finally started emerging from behind the scaffolding after nearly 20 years. Follower Robert Leckie shared this cracking image, taken from the ScotRail bothy across the street. 📷 Robert Leckie #Glasgow

A fascinating view the Gallowgate at Kent St, photographed by Thomas Annan around 1868. Kent St, of course, runs through the heart of the Barras market, and the tenement on the corner lives on, albeit in reduced stature and with a white paint job. 📷 Thomas Annan #glasgow

Two women head across Glasgow Bridge into the city centre on a sunny evening in 1955. 📷 Partick Camera Club #Glasgow

After yesterday's Friday pub, here's a then and now view I created a few years ago. Looking across Saltmarket to the Bridgegate from Steel St in April 1973. Glasgow Ship Bank was the city's first bank, founded in 1749 by a group of tobacco merchants. 📷 Streapadair, Past Glasgow #Glasgow

A view I remember well as a kid. Looking across the boat yard at Clyde Place in 1982, near where my dad used to park the car, with the Clyde Navigation Trust building visible across the river. 📷 Bob Grisly #Glasgow

Come on the Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

As World Cup tie ins go, this is about the most tenuous one imaginable. We're looking at shop fronts on Paisley Rd West, in front of Alexander Thomson's Walmer Crescent, featuring...THE TARTAN CHIPPY! 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Best of luck to the Scotland team tonight 🙏 1935 v 2025 📷 Glasgow City Archives, Past Glasgow

This week's Friday pub is the Old Ship Bank on Saltmarket. Named after the Glasgow Ship Bank which was the city's first bank, founded in 1749 by a group of tobacco merchants. It was officially known as Dunlop, Houston & Co, after its principal partners. #Glasgow #fridaypub

Eight years ago, the Glasgow School of Art lay once again as a smouldering ruin, after a second more devastating fire tore through the iconic Mackintosh building on June 15th. Following the blaze, this message appeared around the neck of Kenny Hunter's "Citizen Firefighter" on Gordon St. #Glasgow

A great shot looking west along Alexandra Parade from around the gates of Alexandra Park, Dennistoun, in 1974. 📷 Joseph McIvor #glasgow

The Royal Exchange, photographed in September 1912. Buried deep within what's now the Gallery of Modern Art, is the townhouse of William Cuninghame of Lainshaw, a slave owner. The original building was constructed between 1778-1780. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

With the news that the Category B listed Hillhead Baptist Church of 1883 has been approved for demolition by Glasgow City Council, here's a glimpse into the not too distant past when it was still very much a place of worship. 📷 HES #glasgow