An aerial view of the city of Glasgow, taken post 1964 as we can see the College of Building and Printing. It really emphasises the spectacular sweep of the railway as it curves towards the looming sheds of St Enoch Station. What else do you see? #Glasgow

A throwback to 1984, when Strathclyde Transport were casually churning out ad campaigns that would permanently lodge in the public psyche. Apologies if this tune is now stuck in your head for the next fortnight 😁 📷 TV Ark #Glasgow #transport #tv #history

Glasgow in 1980, photographed by Raymond Depardon. We're looking west along Bothwell St, with a couple of guys having a slight disagreement in the foreground. #glasgow

This week's Friday pub is the Levern Water Hotel in Nitshill. It was built in 1970 and from around 1974 was my dad's local. You might think a former mining village cum council scheme is a strange place for a hotel, but the canny owner knew that hotels were exempt from Sunday licencing laws.

Looking along Ruthven St in the west end of Glasgow to Byres Rd. The low building with the red paint job is the Curlers pub, now Curler's Rest. Local folklore suggests it may have started as a coffee house in the 17th century. 📷 Stuart McKenna #Glasgow

The scaffolding is down at the Corona Bar in Shawlands. I have to admit that I wasn't sure about the new paint job, but it looks great. I wonder if the lead dome will get a touch up 🤔 #Glasgow

Victoria Road on the south side of Glasgow, photographed by Duncan McCallum, aka Streapadair in April 1976. I'd completely forgotten those metal bus shelters. 📷 Duncan McCallum #glasgow

High rise flats under construction at Linkwood Cres, Drumchapel, photographed in the late 1960s. Built 1968-70 to designs by Alexander B. Campbell, they were originally a set of 3 blocks of 17, 19, and 22 storeys. The 22 storey block at 15 Linkwood Cres was demolished in 2017.

Looking along Woodlands Road towards the spire of St Jude's, built 1874-5 to designs by John Burnet Snr . #Glasgow

The QE 2 under construction at John Brown & Co, photographed by Phillip Capper as he was coming in to land at Abbotsinch (now Glasgow) Airport in 1967. 📷 Phillip Capper #Glasgow

It's Easter Monday, so we're off to Easterhouse (see what I did there?). It's 1981 and we're looking at the shops between Lochdochart Rd and Lentran St, photographed from Lochdochart Path. 📷 HES #Glasgow

The entrance to the Pollok Shopping Centre, photographed in 2002. It was opened by Princess Margaret in 1979 and featured an elaborate automaton clock, which I found fascinating as a kid. The centre was replaced by Silverburn which opened in 2007. 📷 Nick Ponty #Glasgow

Going by the snow that's currently pelting down outside my window, we have entered "third winter".

A now much changed aerial view of the Victoria Infirmary, Oct 1954. We can see the Nightingale pavilions with their distinctive round balconies while over by the Battlefield tram shelter, Queen's Park Secondary School occupies the current New Victoria car park site. 📷 HES

A near deserted Union St in Glasgow, photographed on the Easter weekend of 1954. On the left you can see the Ca d'Oro restaurant and the Union Bar; stained glass panels from the bar can be seen in the Horse Shoe Bar on Drury St. 📷 TSPL #glasgow

Looking east along Dumbarton Rd towards Partick Cross in 1955. A crowd of weans queues outside the Western Cinema waiting for the Saturday "penny crush". It opened as the Garrick in 1916 but by the 60s had become run down. It closed in 1966 & was demolished in 1978. 📷 Partick Camera Club #Glasgow

Stow St, Cowcaddens, captured from Wemyss St in 1960. Tenements on Cowcaddens St can be seen in the distance. Once a major shopping street, you could enter the old Queen's Arcade from just behind the photographer and exit onto Renfrew St. #Glasgow 📷 Glasgow City Archives

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Salvador Dali's "Christ of St John of the Cross", at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery. The painting and intellectual property rights were acquired for Glasgow Corporation in 1952 by Tom Honeyman, then the Director of Glasgow Museums. 📷 John Welsh #glasgow

This week's (Good) Friday pub is Granny Blacks at 55-57 Candleriggs, photographed here in 1987. A famous old Glasgow pub that was established in 1820, it met its end when an adjacent building partly collapsed on 19th October 2001, apparently due to a "burst water main". 📷 TSPL #glasgow

Happy Good Friday! It's 1975, and these kids at Sandy Road Day Nursery in Glasgow are engrossed as they decorate their Easter eggs. I remember doing this myself as a kid, before sending the poor egg down the hill to certain oblivion. 📷 Newsquest #glasgow

The Corona Bar is getting a bit of spruce up at the moment, and that includes a new paint job. The bar is still open during the works, just mind yer heid on the scaffolding. #glasgow

By some miracle it's a bright start to the day, so here's a look along a sunny Pollokshaws Rd back in 1970. Off to the left is Titwood Rd, on the right beyond the trees is Queen's Park, while off in the distance we can see the junction with Allison St. 📷 Colin James Duncan #glasgow

Those little "memories" compilations that Google Photos prompts you with on a daily basis are brutal. Daily reminders of your younger self, or your wee cat that died last year, or the passive aggressive casting up of the approximately 900 pizzas you've eaten in the last decade.

The last days of the old subway, photographed in the early months of 1977. The system would close in May of that year for a much needed modernisation which would see this station, Copland Road, renamed to Ibrox. 📷 Guy (via Flickr) #glasgow

Is April Fool's Day even a thing any more? All I see is a marginal increase in the volume of AI slop. It might as well be any other Wednesday 😁

1754-1782 Maryhill Road, photographed in 1981. Stan's Bar on the right was owned by Stan Balfe, the former commissionaire at the Albany Hotel. Nothing in the photo remains. 📷 HES #glasgow

Arthur & Co's warehouse at the corner of Ingram and Queen St captured in exquisite detail by George Washington Wilson in the 1880s. Zoom in to see the stunning array of ironwork adorning the roof. Sadly, it was lost to a German incendiary bomb in 1940. #Glasgow

A colour snapshot of Great Western Rd near St George's Cross, taken in early 1960. If you're trying to get your bearings, DM Hoey is on the left of the red bus, and the Fergus Bar is to the left of the tram. 📷 Andy Carter #glasgow

Following on from my post earlier on JT Rochead, here's his commercial block on St Vincent St. It was built in 1850 and was occupied for 150 years by John Smith & Co, the oldest book booksellers in the English-speaking world, having been founded in 1751. #Glasgow

Some absolute gold from 1970. Views of the city including Glasgow Central, the George V Bridge, Dundas St bus station, the old entrance to Queen St station, George Square, Sauchiehall St, and various others.  From the 1970 short film "Mirror", which features a young Bill Forsyth.  #Glasgow

Born 212 years ago yesterday, John Thomas Rochead was an architect who, while not as prominent in the public consciousness of Glasgow as some, left an indelible mark on the city and across Scotland. 📷 Past Glasgow #Glasgow

I hope you all remembered to put your clocks forward an hour last night. Of all of Glasgow's timepieces, the Glasgow Central clock is probably one of the most familiar. It's always been a meeting point, especially in the days before mobile phones made it easy to stay in touch. 📷 Reach Plc

Balmore Road, Possilpark, captured in glorious colour in 1974. 📷 ManOfYorkshire #Glasgow

Looking up Elderslie St to the towers of Trinity College and Park Parish Church, by this point the only part of the church remaining. This scene is little changed today, only the cars hinting that the year is 1978. 📷 JR James Archive #glasgow

Looking down into Union Street, Glasgow, in 1947. To the right we can see Boots at ground floor level. Next to that is the famous Peacock's tea rooms, with Smart's furniture store in the centre of the image. 📷 Reach #Glasgow

This week's Friday pub is the Star & Garter. Not the one up by Firhill, but down on New City Road just off St George's Cross. Here it is pictured on a sunny March morning in 1972, with the Clarendon Place gushet of 1831 visible to the far left. 📷 tinshack #glasgow

Looking down on JT Rochead's Grosvenor Terrace. At the time of its completion in 1858, the terrace was described as "the finest range of buildings in Great Britain, being described after the most palatial style of architecture". #glasgow

Looking east along Sauchiehall St at the rear end of a couple of half-cab rear entrance buses in Corporation livery. The film playing at the ABC on the left is "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean", which dates the image to 1972. 📷 ManOfYorkshire #glasgow

John Burnet's stunning Venetian Renaissance building of 1871-4 at 30-34 St Vincent Place for the Clydesdale Bank, photographed in glorious colour back in 1975. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #glasgow

Looking south down Buchanan St in 1975. The plants and shrubs of the street's early pedestrianisation are evident. Vehicle access was phased out in stages, starting in 1972, until what had been one of Glasgow's main traffic arteries was fully pedestrianised in 1978. 📷 Newsquest

The building that put the "Greek" into Alexander "Greek" Thomson. His first executed Grecian design, and his first important urban building, it was designed and built for J & WA Blair hat manufacturers in 1853. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #glasgow

There's a lot to see in this image of c1970. Looking across the hydraulic pumping station on High St to Townhead school, with the chimney of the Townhead baths left of centre. Off in the distance is the giant cooling tower of Pinkston Power Station. 📷 Jeff Holmes #Glasgow

Traffic in the city of Glasgow, a comparison between 1964 and 1994. With shots of the Clyde Tunnel and the old Daily Record building. 🎥 STV #Glasgow #history #vintageglasgow

A Glasgow icon is getting a new chapter. 🏛️✨ Planning permission has been granted to turn the former Watt Brothers building on Sauchiehall Street into a new 100-room hotel, in a £23m “heritage-led” redevelopment by Sandy and James Easdale. #glasgow

This week's Friday pub is the Titwood Bar on Nithsdale Rd, Strathbungo. Andrew Small, a wine & spirit merchant, occupied these premises and obtained a public house licence in 1893. Mr Small paid an annual rent of £62 10/- to the owner of the property Mrs Janet McIntyre, 40 Nithsdale Rd. #Glasgow

The former Dobbie’s Warehouse on Glassford St, photographed in 1975. A neat Glasgow-style commercial building of 1908, it was designed with a nod to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It's been many things over the years, but has been reborn as the House of Gods hotel. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

With the news that greyhound racing has been outlawed in Scotland following the passing of the Prohibition of Greyhound Racing (Scotland) Bill, here's a glimpse of the Shawfield stadium boundary wall and gates, photographed in March 1937. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

Looking down Dalhousie St to Sauchiehall St in May 1974. On the corner is furrier Jack Karter, a firm that maintained a decades-long presence on Sauchiehall St. Beyond that is the dome of Keppie & Henderson's 1921 building for the City of Glasgow Friendly Society. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

There's a bit of warmth to that sun today. As pleasant as it is, don't forget that Glasgow actually has 12 seasons 😬 #Glasgow