Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 1hIt's 22nd May 1975, and the PS Waverley gets ready to set sail for Dunoon from Anderston Quay for her first trip as a preservation vessel. In the background you can see the old Daily Record building. 📷 John Goss #glasgow #waverley 0181
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 1hThe PS Waverley glides past the MSC Virtuosa as the two vessels pass on the River Clyde back in 2021. She might be smaller but she's certainly prettier. 📷 Stephen Henry/SWNS #Glasgow 2190
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 1hA very special lady is celebrating her 80th birthday today. 80 years ago today, on 2 October 1946, the paddle steamer Waverley was launched at the A. & J. Inglis Pointhouse shipyard in Glasgow, where the River Kelvin meets the Clyde. 📷 Bob Dougans #Glasgow #history #waverley 1298
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 13hThe original 1750 premises of the Old Ship Bank at the corner of Saltmarket and Bridgegate, photographed around 1902. It was an independent bank formed in Glasgow in 1750 becoming Glasgow's first bank. 📷 National Archives #Glasgow #history 1271
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 18hMaryhill Rd at Dalmally St, photographed by John Hume in 1977. Today the tenements are gone, replace by brick-built flats, and Dalmally St no longer connects to Maryhill Rd. #Glasgow #maryhill 0130
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 19hAn early 20th century view of Nitshill Rd photographed from the railway embankment. The Railway Inn on the right was one of 5 pubs serving a village of around 1000 people at the time, and it survived until the late 70s. #Glasgow #Nitshill 2130
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 30/09/2026In February 1972, 20 students from Glasgow School of Art greeted Gordon Campbell, the Scottish Secretary of State, as he opened the Charing Cross section of the M8. They waved banners that are as relevant now as they were then as Campbell passed beneath in the Lord Provost's car. 📷 Newqsquest 18327
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 30/09/2026There are some photos you can practically smell, this is one of them. Taken at the corner of Jamaica and Clyde St (then Great Clyde St), it was part of a series taken in 1914 to highlight traffic congestion, and to support a parliamentary bill for tramway extension 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow 1222
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 30/09/2026The iconic Dino's on Sauchiehall St. The shock announcement of its closure sparked a petition to save it, but sadly Dino’s on Sauchiehall Street closed on 16th March 2014. #Glasgow #history 2223
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 30/09/2026Candleriggs photographed in 1975. Just 6 years earlier this would have been a bustling scene as the site of the fruit market. Glasgow has had a fruit market since the 12th century and Candleriggs became its home in 1817. 📷 Stephen Reid #glasgow 1211
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 29/09/2026While wandering along Southcroft St in Govan the other week, I spied this bit of ornate metalwork attached to the tenement. I immediately thought there must have been a pawn shop here at one point, and started searching on my phone. #Glasgow #Govan 1140
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 28/09/202619th century tenements on the corner of Ashley and West Princes Streets in the Woodlands area of Glasgow. Photographed here in 1981, they were demolished around 1990 due to subsidence. #Glasgow #history #tenements 2171
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 28/09/2026There are so few surviving fragments of old Pollokshaws left, that this beautiful turn of the 20th century corner tenement on Riverford Rd qualifies despite being a "modern" addition to the 17th century weaving village. #Glasgow #architecture #tenement #photography 1310
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 27/09/2026James Miller designed an entertainment complex in Renfield St for Miss Catherine Cranston, better known as the owner of her famous tea rooms, in 1915. Cranston's Cinema De Luxe occupied the third floor of the six storey building. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow #1980s 1152
Reposted by Past GlasgowScottishCinemas.org @scottishcinemas.org · 27/09/202625 years after we started online, have a look at our new look modern website! Now with maps, images, better search & mobile friendly. Still lots of ulpdate & fixes to do, but it’s now a lot easier to for us to update things than before, let us know what’s wrong/missing! scottishcinemas.org 2189
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 26/09/20261980, and an operator takes a casual morning stroll 175 feet above Stobcross Quay on the deck of the Finnieston Crane (or Stobcross Crane if we're being accurate). 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow 1283
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 26/09/2026Fascinating footage of the city in 1992, captured by an Icelandic documentary crew. With scenes of George Square, Provand's Lordship, Virginia St, the Rogano, the Oxford chippy, and Prince's Square. #Glasgow 1242
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 25/09/2026A snapshot of post-war Glasgow, looking east along Ingram St from Candleriggs in 1946. A few of the buildings are still with us, notably the Albion Buildings of 1875 with the first floor arched windows on the left. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow 0190
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 25/09/2026This week's Friday pub is the Station Bar, 55 Port Dundas Rd. It's one of the last remaining fragments of old Cowcaddens. In 1850 Samuel Forrester received a licence to sell porter and spirits, along with permission to sell hay and grain. #Glasgow #fridaypub 2332
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 25/09/2026On this day in 2023, Glaswegian actor David McCallum passed away at the age of 90. #Glasgow #onthisday 521127122
Reposted by Past GlasgowLior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 24/09/2026Is it Amsterdam? Copenhagen? No, it's Paris! After years of investment, the French capital has one of the best problems a city can have: bicycle congestion. So if Paris has done it, why wouldn't other cities follow? 📸 Such an amazing photo by @jbpssx.bsky.social 15712152
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 24/09/2026Central Fire Station, Ingram St, c1921. It was the second HQ of the Glasgow Fire Brigade, replacing College St from 1900. It comprised a fire station, drill yard, workshops, gymnasium, office and rent-free accommodation including the Firemaster's house. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow #history 0181
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 24/09/2026Glasgow has had multiple Theatre Royals over the years, but here's the first. It was built on Dunlop St in 1782 at a cost of £3000 for John Jackson. 📷 Thomas Annan #Glasgow #history #theatre #architecture 1140
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 23/09/2026Nos 114-28 Howard St, Glasgow, 1968. These warehouses were both built in 1903, No 114 for Schrader, Mitchell & Weir, leather merchants, to designs by Andrew Balfour, architect, and No 118 for William Cotterill, glass merchant. The latter was designed by Beattie & Morton, architects. 📷 John Hume 1173
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 23/09/2026The corner of Buchanan St and Argyle St, with Horatio Bromhead's Free Classical warehouse of 1903 for Campbell, Stewart, and McDonalds, now home to Fraser's. #Glasgow #architecture #photography 2210
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 22/09/2026Looking from Shawlands Cross towards Queen's Park, around 1968-72 from one of the flats in the Crossmyloof Mansions gushet. On the left is Neil Campbell Duff's 1904 Glasgow Savings Bank. The clock is a remnant from when this little traffic island was a tram stop 📷 Colin Duncan 0200
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 22/09/2026Student pilots at Glasgow and Strathclyde University air squadrons flying their Bulldog training aircraft in formation in 1975, framing the Glasgow University building in the background. 📷 McIntyre Collection #Glasgow #aviation 1141
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 22/09/2026The south rotunda is one of two designed by Simpson and Wilson and built between 1890 and 1896 by the Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Company. They covered 24m deep shafts leading to tunnels that gave vehicles and pedestrians access to the other side of the Clyde. #Glasgow 3182
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 21/09/2026Hutchesontown, Gorbals photographed in 1956 before the wrecking balls moved in. Densely packed tenements skirt the Southern Necropolis at Caledonia Rd, while the Govan Iron Works thunders on in its death throes just 2 years before it would close. #Glasgow 1303
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 21/09/2026September 1950, and locomotive 26438 goes on public display in George Square. Built by the North British Locomotive Company in Springburn, it was destined for the Bengal Nagpur Railway, and was the 24th engine of a batch of 100 locomotives of this class. 📷 Glasgow City Archives 0181
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 20/09/2026Out and about for Glasgow Doors Open Day yesterday, and very much enjoyed the tour of Glasgow Cathedral. The Great West Window in the nave, designed by Francis Spear and installed in 1958, tells the Creation story, and features a depiction of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. 0294
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 20/09/2026A second excerpt from "Drumchapel: The Frustration Game. 1130
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 19/09/2026Lovely day for a stoat about the Necropolis 🫣static.klipy.comHurricane Winds Bending Palm TreesALT: Hurricane Winds Bending Palm Trees 2210
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 18/09/2026Just remembered I took this shot of the Squinty Bridge last week. 20 years old today and a firmly established part of the Glasgow skyline. #Glasgow 1191
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 18/09/2026On this day 20 years ago, Glasgow gained a new bridge when the Clyde Arc was opened by Glasgow City Council leader Steven Purcell. Although only officially opened on 18th September, the public had access for two days prior as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days. #Glasgow #otd 1283
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 18/09/2026An excerpt from the 1989 documentary "Drumchapel: The Frustration Game" focusing on the socio-economic problems faced by it and other schemes built to accommodate people displaced by Glasgow's slum clearance activities in the 40s and 50s. #Glasgow #1980s 1132
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 18/09/2026A couple more shots from Southcroft St in Govan last Friday. Firstly, a satisfying sweep of oriel windows heading towards Govan Rd, and then looking the opposite direction back towards Vicarfield St. #Glasgow #govan #architecture #photography 0230
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 18/09/2026This week's Friday pub is the Govanhill Bar, at the corner of Cathcart Rd and Thistle St in the Gorbals, pictured here in 1973. There had been a bar at this lost gushet since 1892, and it survived all the way to 1991 before being demolished. 📷 Duncan McCallum, Derek Copland #Glasgow #Fridaypub 190
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 18/09/2026Time for a wee sit down in a sunny St Enoch Square bank in 1972. The station had fallen silent by then, while the hotel hirpled on for another couple of years before both were demolished in 1977. I'd completely forgotten about those raised stone beds #Glasgow #1970s #photography 0261
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 17/09/2026Glasgow weather in a nutshell 😂 The long, unbroken tenements of Southcroft St in Govan are illuminated by the sun as an ominous sky brews in the distance. This is one of the few fragments of tenement housing left in this part of Govan. #Glasgow #tenements #govan #photography 3333
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 17/09/2026Me refreshing the Dictionary of Scottish Architects website on a daily basis to see if the "maintenance" is finished yet 👀static.klipy.comBubbles' Big Eyes ReactionALT: Bubbles' Big Eyes Reaction 0122
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 17/09/2026George Square in Glasgow, photographed in 1977. From the flags and bunting it's probably safe to assume this was taken round about the Queen's silver jubilee visit to the city in May of that year. 📷 Ole Holbech #Glasgow #Scotland #1970s #georgesquare 1130
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 16/09/2026Glasgow 1977, and we're looking west along a busy Argyle St, with Arnott's on the left. Arnott's was a trading name of Fraser's after the struggling company was acquired in 1936. The Glasgow store closed in 1994. 📷 Ole Holbech #Glasgow #Scotland #history #photography 2221
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 16/09/2026Health and safety? What health and safety? 🫣 A worker casually posing for a snap 10 storeys up while helping to build the extension to the dental hospital on Sauchiehall St in 1970. 📷 Donnie McCaulay #Glasgow #1970s 1281
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 16/09/2026Looking down into West George St in 1975. The DemCo sign on the front of number 180 tells you all you need to know: it's coming down. Thankfully the mid-19th century corner block by Baird and Thomson was spared. 📷 gillfoto #Glasgow #urbanism #1970s #architecture #architecturephotography 190
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 15/09/2026Rear facade of tenements under construction at 15-17 George St (later Medwyn St) in 1902. The figure on the ramp is William Lightbbody of builders Messrs P W & A Lightbody. 24 room-and-kitchen flats (16 with internal WC, 8 shared) built by a workforce of 10 men in 9 months. #Glasgow 1263
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 15/09/2026On this day in 1927, Green's Playhouse opened at the top of Renfield St in Glasgow. It was an entertainment complex comprising a cinema, ballroom, tea rooms and other facilities. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow #cinema #apollo #music #1970s 1221
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 14/09/2026The former Lyceum cinema in Govan. It opened in December 1938, on the site of the Lyceum Theatre, which had opened in 1899, and burned down in 1937. The replacement building, by McNair & Elder, was a stunning streamlined suburban super-cinema, originally seating 2,600. #Glasgow 1191
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 14/09/2026Looking south towards Charing Cross in 1970, as the city is cleaved in two by the new motorway. On the left is the rear of Charing Cross Mansions, while the dome of the Mitchell Library is visible on the right hand side. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow 3161
