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It's speculated that some 600,000 people packed the city for the event, with 35,000 taking part in a trades’ march of skilled workers from the city’s heavy industries and a masonic procession.

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On 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.

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The 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.

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On 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

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Coopers 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

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Here's a then and now showing the location of the Glasgow Concert Hall.

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This photo, taken in January 1963 by Herald staff photographer Arthur Kinloch, shows then Lord Provost Jean Roberts officially opening the new venue which replaced St Andrew's Halls after it burned down the previous year.

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The building was formerly Anderston’s Gaiety Cinema, originally known as the Victoria Music Hall, then the Tivoli Variety Theatre. It opened in 1899 and became a full cinema in 1935.

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On 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

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Sauchiehall 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

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A 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

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This category B listed building in North Woodside Road was built as a mission church for the Free College Church near Lyndeoch Crescent around 1879.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 03/10/2026

On 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

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Built in 1888 as the Wynd United Free Church, it united with St Ninian’s Parish Church after the reconciliation between the Free and Established Churches. It was demolished around 1983.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 03/10/2026

W.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

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 03/10/2026

A 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

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When 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.

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This 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

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It'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

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The 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

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The Pointhouse yard where she was built is now the site of the Riverside Museum, so you can stand where she was launched and often see her pass on the Clyde.

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In 1974 she was sold for £1 to the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, and she has been in preservation ever since. She is now the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world and still sails from Glasgow each summer.

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She 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

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She 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

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A 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

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The Old Ship Bank pub on the ground floor is a fine old pub and a lively haunt if you fancy a Saturday afternoon sing-song.

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The bank was merged in 1836 and in 1843 the name disappeared altogether, simply becoming the Union Bank of Scotland. In 1904 the old building was demolished and the tenement that we see today was built.

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The 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

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Maryhill 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

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I have a vague memory as a young child of a fire here, but I could be wrong. On the left is the war memorial and the ramp up to Nitshill station.

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An 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

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In 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

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By the early 1950s the tram network was being wound down. The first blow was the conversion in 1949 of two tramlines to trolleybuses. The decision in 1953 to cease the replacement of ageing stock sealed its fate.

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There 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

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The Scots Italian-owned restaurant was something of a Glasgow institution having been a feature of the city centre for nearly 50 years. Dino’s was named after its original proprietor, Mr Dino Baldi, who began serving pizza and pasta on Buchanan Street in 1966.

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The 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

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The city centre location and narrow traffic-choked streets would see the market relocated to Blochairn in 1969, ending 152 years of operation at Candleriggs.

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