Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 11hLook to the right, and the dome that appears white, is at the corner of Hope St and Cowcaddens Rd, where MacOnnell's bar is, with the pediment and tower of the National Piping Centre also visible just to the left. What else can you spot? 080 8
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 11hLooking north across the rooftops from the newly built Fleming House on Renfrew St in 1964 towards the Pinkston Power Station cooling tower. There's so little left from this Cowcaddens scene that you might need help getting your bearings. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow #1960s 1211 21
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 11hMostly disused for well over a decade, various murmurs of redevelopment have come to nothing. It was last purchased in 2017 for £800k by Parmajit Kaur, Amitoj Randhawa, and Navjot Randhawa, and was unsuccessfully marketed in 2022. 2121 12
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 11hTime seems to be running out for this long-abandoned gem. J A Campbell's category A listed Glasgow-style office block of 1901 for Robert Buchanan & Co, Carting Contractors at 71-75 Robertson St. #Glasgow 4558 55
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 22hA convoy of trams rounds the curve of St George's Rd at Charing Cross in 1956. To the left is the Grand Hotel of 1880 by James Thomson. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow #1950s 2260 26
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 16/10/2026A sunny Hope St in Glasgow, photographed in 1993. On the left is the entrance Glasgow Central, and the red sign a little further down is Chicago Meatpackers. Shaftesbury House on the right was demolished in 2008, with a new building for SSE replacing it. 📷 aqualite #Glasgow 2192 19
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 16/10/2026This week's Friday pub is the Mission at 160 Battlefield Rd. It was formerly the site of the Queen’s Cinema which was opened in 1922 by Battlefield Pictures Ltd, and in 1934 it became the Tonic Cinema. The picture house closed in 1962. 📷 norrie1 via Flickr #Glasgow #fridaypub 1120 12
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 15/10/2026Former US president Barack Obama was in Glasgow last night, making an appearance at the Hydro for a question and answer session titled "An Evening with President Barack Obama". He's pictured here on West George St at the side entrance of the Blythswood Hotel. 📷 Reach #Glasgow #Obama 3373 37
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 15/10/2026On this day, 15 October 1976, the Renfrew Motorway section of the M8 was opened. Built to connect Glasgow's Inner Ring Road with the Renfrew Bypass at Hillington, the four-mile route formed part of a wider programme of urban motorway construction that reshaped the city during the 1960s and 1970s. 1160 16
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 14/10/2026On this day in 1859, the Loch Katrine aquaduct was inaugurated by Queen Victoria. Here we see members of the Corporation Water Works Office's Water Committee on an inspection tour of the Loch Katrine Reservoir, 1876. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow #otd 2240 24
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 14/10/2026Springburn Rd at the corner of Flemington Rd, photographed in 1981. When Springburn Rd was realigned and widened to become the Springburn Expressway, many adjacent buildings were demolished or altered. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow #1980s 3220 22
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 13/10/20261957 and we're looking from Kelvin Way towards the Glasgow University Union at the bottom of University Ave. Tram service 3 is actually stationary, sitting at the terminus which is where the tracks simply ended in the middle of the road. With the seats flipped over, it'll soon be on its way. 1340 34
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 13/10/2026Hats off to our intrepid snapper, risking life and limb to get this dramatic shot looking towards Alexander Skirving's 1896 Langside Hill Church and the Battlefield Monument. The photo was taken in the 1950s. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow 2402 40
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 13/10/2026A pair of beauties at the corner of Hope and St Vincent Streets. On the corner is Burnet & Boston's late Victorian Renaissance-style block of 1900 for the Royal Bank of Scotland. #Glasgow #architecture #history #aerialphotography 1454 45
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 12/10/2026Looking east along St Vincent St towards George Square in the evening sunshine. Down to the left is James Miller's category A listed HQ of 1925-7 for the Union Bank of Scotland, latterly the Bank of Scotland. #Glasgow #architecture #history #aerialphotography 2373 37
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 12/10/2026Looking out from under the St Enoch Station canopy in 1960. From that raised vehicle ramp in front of the station, you get a good view of James Miller's 1896 ticket office for the Glasgow District Subway Railway Company on the left. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow 0333 33
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 11/10/2026A wee flight around some of the buildings of Hope St, looking spectacular in the autumn sunshine. #Glasgow #architecture #drone #aerialphotography 512316 123
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 11/10/2026This view looking east along Trongate in 1960, shows a tramcar on the No 26 service from Burnside to Dalmuir West. The car is one of a type introduced in 1927, made by several manufacturers. 📷 John Hume #Glasgow #history #trams 1302 30
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 10/10/2026"Saturday night at the movies" 🎵 The St Enoch Picture Theatre on Argyle St, photographed in 1936 a year after it closed. It began life as a music hall, Crouch's Wonderland, which showed films from 1897. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow #cinema 2280 28
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 10/10/2026No, you're quite right. There were 64 triple-axled vehicles in the fleet. 100 1
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 10/10/2026Some wonderful footage capturing the last year of Glasgow's trolleybuses. They came late to the city, only appearing in 1949, making Glasgow the last British city to implement such a system. They outlived the tram network by 7 years, running for the last time in 1967 🎥 Duncan White #Glasgow #1960s 4434 43
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 09/10/2026Have you ever seen a finer assemblage of bunnetry? Men gathered at the Bridgeton Umbrella at Bridgeton Cross in the 1930s. The umbrella is an octagonal cast iron shelter, and was manufactured by George Smith & Co's Sun Foundry at Port Dundas. It was gifted to the city in 1875. 2273 27
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 09/10/2026That spire shows up in so many old photos and etchings, but don't recall seeing a photo of the entire thing before the demolition has started. The closest I've seen is this sketch by prolific tenement architect John Nisbet. 140 4
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 09/10/2026This week's Friday pub is the Cockburn Bar at 118a Blythswood St. Dating from the 1960s when the licensee was Robert Bowman Stevenson, it was one of those older style pubs that was always just there, dotted around the city and mostly catering to regulars. #Glasgow #fridaypub 2231 23
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 09/10/2026The city's support went further. In 1986, St George's Place was renamed Nelson Mandela Place. The street was then the location of the South African consulate, so the apartheid government's officials had to give their address as the name of the man they were holding in prison. 24412 44
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 09/10/2026On this day in 1993, Nelson Mandela came to Glasgow to receive the Freedom of the City in person. The council had granted it in 1981, when he was still a prisoner on Robben Island, making Glasgow the first city in the world to do so. #Glasgow #NelsonMandela #OnThisDay #glasgowhistory 412729 127
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 08/10/2026Partick Fire Station, photographed in the 1960s. Opened in May 1907 at the corner of Hozier St (now Beith St) and Clyde St (now Sandy Rd), it replaced an earlier station on Anderson St. 📷 Graeme Kirkwood #Glasgow 1191 19
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 08/10/2026Two youngsters stop to check out photographer Ian Woods as he points his lens along Hospital St in the Gorbals in the 1950s. Out of shot to the left is Alexander Thomson's Caledonia Rd church. The kids on the left are standing on the little island in front of it. 📷 IRJ Woods Collection #Glasgow 0131 13
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 07/10/2026Passengers alighting at a rainy Dundas St bus station back in 1963. These days this location is smack bang in the middle of Buchanan Galleries. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #glasgow 0180 18
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 07/10/202695-99 Ravenscraig Drive, Priesthill, photographed in 1981. This was a stone's throw from where I grew up, and many of these post-war tenement blocks were refurbished by Barratt in the 1980s. Modern semi-detached housing now occupies this site. 📷 RCAHMS #Glasgow #1980s 1130 13
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 06/10/2026The entrance to Partick Cross underground station in Dalcross Pass, photographed in 1965. Up until the late 1970s, entrances were typically located on the ground floor of tenements. 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow 1200 20
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 06/10/2026On the west side of the square are the Bank of Scotland building and the Merchants' House, while the new Inland Revenue building is under construction to the north. 270 7
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 06/10/2026The competition-winning design by Paisley-born, London-based architect William Young provided a building of 5016m² (now 14,000m² with extensions), and required 10 million bricks, 9905m³ of stone and 537.7m³ of granite. Including furnishings, the project cost £578,232, which would be over £60m today. 250 5
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 06/10/2026On this day in 1883, the foundation stone for Glasgow's new municipal buildings, the City Chambers, was laid by Lord Provost John Ure. 📷 Glasgow Museums #Glasgow #otd 3280 28
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 05/10/2026Coopers Well St at Partick Cross, photographed in 1980. Keep following it round to Benalder St and you'd come to the Volcano night club. 📷 Dr Miles Horsey #Glasgow 1190 19
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 05/10/2026Here's a then and now showing the location of the Glasgow Concert Hall. 1253 25
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 05/10/2026On this day in 1963, the Beatles kicked off a 3 night mini tour of Scotland, playing at this unlikely venue, the Glasgow Concert Hall in Anderston . 📷 Newsquest #Glasgow #Beatles 2398 39
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 04/10/2026Sauchiehall St in the sun, 1975. The dome of the McLellan Galleries can be seen on the right, originally built in 1855 as a gallery and warehouse for coach builder Archibald McLellan. Trerons was a department store styling itself as "Paris in Glasgow". 📷 GCA #Glasgow 2361 36
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 04/10/2026A great colour shot from 1961, with a number 9 Yoker tram passing Lewis's on Argyle St. Car geeks, is that a Vauxhall Victor? 🤔 📷 Jensen-lc #Glasgow #history #trams 1151 15
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 04/10/2026On this day in 1883, the Boys' Brigade was founded by Sir William Alexander Smith at the North Woodside Mission Hall. A plaque on the exterior of the property commemorates the organisation's founding. 📷 Past Glasgow #Glasgow #boysbrigade 1110 11
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 03/10/2026W.G.Rowan’s fine neo-Romanesque St Ninian’s Wynd Church at the gushet of Cathcart Rd and Crown St, photographed by Streapadair in April 1973. 📷 Duncan McCallum #Glasgow 1170 17
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 03/10/2026A Saturday morning trolleybus trip from 1966, coming from the city centre, along Gorbals Street to the Cross, and then onwards to Cathcart Rd. #Glasgow #gorbals #history #trolleybus 2294 29
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026When the original building was demolished and the tenement known as the Stag Building was erected to designs by Thomas Baird in 1905, the Old Stag Inn took up residence and has been there ever since. 060 6
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026This week's Friday pub is the Old Stag Inn on Greenview St in Pollokshaws. First listed in the Post Office Directory of 1888-89 as the Stag Inn on what was then Pollok St, it had operated for a number of years prior to that. #Glasgow #Fridaypub 2130 13
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026It'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 0362 36
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026The 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 3380 38
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026She entered service on the Clyde in June 1947, sailing from Craigendoran. Her working life was on the Firth of Clyde coastal routes, carrying holidaymakers "doon the watter". By the early 1970s she was surplus to requirements. 📷 John Goss 150 5
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026She was built to replace the first Waverley, an 1899 paddle steamer sunk by German aircraft off Dunkirk in May 1940 while helping to evacuate troops. She was built for the London & North Eastern Railway and named after Walter Scott's Waverley novels. 📷 Stephen Henry/SWNS 280 8
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026A 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 16116 61
