Today, for Worsdall Wednesday, Frank’s taking us for elevenses – a cuppa and wee scone – at Kate Cranston’s Crown Lunch and Tea Rooms, on Argyle Street. Architect David Barclay's 1899 watercolour of the block in its heyday is a joy.

No April fool... #OTD in 1820, the proclamation that would spark the Radical War was plastered on walls and doors in Glasgow. In the recriminations that followed, John Baird, Andrew Hardie and James Wilson, were hanged and beheaded, while 19 others were transported to Australia.

Walking over St Vincent Street in Sunday's squalls and showers, I spotted an interesting ‘then and now’, featuring one of the city’s long-forgotten high class hotels. The Windsor, on the corner of St Vincent and Douglas Streets, was once one of Glasgow’s go-to venues. A🧵

It's May 1976, and the students are revolting. In the face of government cuts, the students at Jordanhill Teacher Training College decided to occupy their own building, and take the fight to the City Chambers, where they occupied the Upper Gallery. Pic: TSPL

Nacht... I once walked ibto one of hos pics, and just stof stoffed// www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...

Still makes me greet! Reminded that today would have been Vincent's birthday; and the genuine, almost heart-stopping magic of wandering around a corner in Arles, and finding myself in 'the' square, outside 'the' very bar in 'Cafe Terrace at Night'......

Watching Master & Commander film. In my window sits one of grandfather's sea chests - three or four times round Horn under sail before he was 21 - and his sail needles; still useful.

A top afternoon at the Glasgow Comedy Festival Gala, and a worthy winner of the Sir Billy Connolly award in Amanda Dwyer, and the Big Yin, on video, to announce her name. Pic: Tommy Ga-Kwen Wa

Preparing to face the wild weather as I gear up to attend the closing gala of this year's Glasgow International Comedy Festival. Think I might have to put the roof up...

Word: from the Third Eye, to the CCA, the Kelvingrove, McLellan Galleries, the People's Palace, GoMA. Trongate 103 is at the heart of our creative city. www.facebook.com/reel/9524544...

If you sneeze and fart at the same time, you take a screenshot of yourself - Bob Mortimer

Went to see this guy tonight; recommend highly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPGA...

Spring forward, Fall back... I hope someone is holding that ladder! Pic: Bremners Warehouse, Glassford Street, 1949. (Newsquest)

'A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.' Greek proverb. Although its beauty is fleeting, the arrival of Glasgow's Cherry blossom is an annual delight, and a pink, scented reminder that warmer weather is on its way. Pic: Glenys Marie Evans

It's Saturday, so we're back in old Anderston, and we're outside the pawn, left - the three brass balls supposedly modelled on the arms of the Renaissance Medici family of Florence. That shop probably saw more suits passing over its counter than Ralph Slaters.

ToTP 1978 on the TV; I bought both Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street' and Elvis Costello's 'I Don't Want to Go To Chelsea' on the same day. Elvis won out...

When you have a Whatsapp group for your pubbing and clubbing mates, and you all check in at the tail end of the night to say 'home safe'. That's when ye ken... Some early Alex Harvey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQy4...

Now, that's magic! John Baird, of the Scottish Conjuring Association, and his assistant Evelyn Rose perform their sword-balancing trick for the crowds on Buchanan Street, in June 1976. Pic: TSPL

Elspeth King and Michael Donnelly, from the People's Palace, survey the unique elliptical hanging staircase in Spreull’s Land, No 182 Trongate, which was built in 1784. The tenement, the first home to the Glasgow Herald, was demolished in 1978.

Nacht! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OP9...

If you don't know the backstory to this switch, and Elvis being banned from the show for 20-odd years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ww...

I'd forgotten how fucking heavy vinyl, and old magazines are. Hundreds of copies of The Face, from issue 3. Four plastic boxes of LPs, and old singles. All humphed from my bro's garage to the boot of my car. Still there; I'm 60, and two-floors up. They shall be smuggled in.

A brilliantly bustling image of St Vincent Place, looking east towards George Square from its junction with Buchanan Street. No date, but it must have been taken after 1892, when the public toilets were installed, and before 1902, when the last of Glasgow’s horse-drawn trams were withdrawn.

One week you're a media tart; the next... The dogs bark, the caravan moves on. Union Street - a familiar smile missing a front tooth.

Tell shitty City Property to sling their hook. Viva Trongate103! www.change.org/p/save-trong...

Having just got a new record deck, I'm off to my brother's today to disinter my vinyl from his garage. Here's oor Alex, before he was 'sensational', but, of course, he always was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQy4...

Worsdall Wednesday winds its weary way around again, and this week we're off to a hotel. Today, the site is occupied by another hotel, the Hampton, by Hilton. Pic/text: 'The City That Disappeared' by Frank Worsdall (1981)

Central, Glasgow's great glass living room, is back in action. Here's the city's commuter cathedral in 1932, as seen by artist Frederick Murgatroyd. The original of this sketch can now be seen in the station's subterranean museum, which you can visit as part of the station tour.

Nacht! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Ax...

So sad to see you've got silver She's gonna break your dancing heart Nothing good lasts forever And sometimes nothing starts Julie ocean, always on fire... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVrg...

Through a glass darkly... A wonderful, if gloomy glimpse, into May Lightbody's newsagent shop, near Cathcart Cemetery, in the 1940s. That's May at the front, with her shop assistant, Jean Dunn. Love May's outfit. Picture: Walter Bernadini (May's nephew)

Raking the crates tonight; I forgot I had three Eddie Harris CDs. Nice... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHt...

On an interesting quest today - trying to discover which local archive the late photographer Robert Flotte donated his 1970s Glasgow images to. Not a name I'd ever heard before.

As if I needed an excuse to pop into the Chip for a pint... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Paws for thought... Move along, nothing to see here; just a bloke and his feline friend caught lazing in an unnamed Glasgow doorway, in 1975. Pic: Iain Mackenzie

Playground pals... A rare treat for you today, as we whizz back to the playground of Garnetbank Primary School, in 1981. A 🧵

Hey, Olive! A wonderful window display of olive oil in an unnamed Italian importers in Glasgow, in 1975. Looking at the cans, pretty sure that's the Leaning Tower of Pisa on the front, meaning that's the good peppery stuff from Tuscany. Pic: Iain Mackenzie

Sunday morning, coming down... Lost Chord Records, in Park Road. Opened in 1977, by Gordon MacKee, by the time it closed it was the city's oldest second-hand record shop. Pic: The shop, in 1987, by Douglas Corrance.

A very personal track; my mum driving me home from Ninewells in Dundee - me missing 5ft of my bowel, and weighing 5st. I wept like a child, but I'm still here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLhp...

Nacht! Alice Coltrane bringing the Jazz shutters down on what has been a nice few days. The sun shone, the air turned from autumn loamy, to bulging buds, and daffies... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOkB...

The downtown lights... A very colourful 1955 neon dreamscape beneath the Hielanman's Umbrella. We're standing at the eastern, Four Corners end, looking west, and just outside the carpet department of the old Grants home furnishing shop. Pic: Daily Record

So throw those curtains wide One day like this a year would see me right... Cartoon: Bud Neill

It's a sunny Saturday, so we're back with those old Anderston postcards. Today, we're in McIntyre Street, and it seems half the local community are out and about. We are, I think, looking north towards Argyle Street.

Yess! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgnb...

The Bluebells, and some pics... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj7l...

In German (he also did it in French) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCTt...

Honesly, this time, off to bed; dancing in my stocking soles... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Hf...

Some stuff... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZFy...

Written by BA Robertson - an update. The OG Maggie is a pal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym3W...

I love them all - the pigtails is Kathleen Hanna who was married to Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, and Tamra Davis (the video's director) was married to Mike D of the Beasties. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JGB...