CHEERFUL bunting criss-crosses Glasgow's Buchanan Street above the heads of the passers-by in 1909 to mark a royal visit to the city. The fashions of course are rooted in that era with cloth caps for the working classes and bowler hats for the middle classes. However the buildings themselves are relatively unchanged.
You can just make out the Kodak shop which opened at the turn of the century for the sale of cameras.
Although the archive says this is 1909 it might in fact be a few years earlier when then King Edward VII, who succeeded his mother Queen Victoria, arrived in the city with Queen Alexandra to lay the foundation stone in George Street for the new building for the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College which later became Strathclyde University.
The King didn't just walk up and trowel on a bit of cement. A temporary platform was built, seats were arranged for 2600 spectators, the King made a speech, and the stone was ceremonially lowered before the King tapped it into position.
Edward had been the Prince of Wales, and due to his mother's longevity, he did not succeed to the thrown until he was 59, and died when he was 68.
IAIN Cuthbertson was a Glasgow lad, educated at Glasgow Academy, who started acting at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, but found public fame as the gravel-voiced dodgy businessman Charlie Endell in the television series Budgie. He later made a sequel series Charles Endell Esquire with Scottish Television in 1979.
However his best role in Scotland was in Sutherland's Law where he played the eponymous procurator fiscal in a small Scottish town.
IT was an exciting time for Scottish politics in 1973 when a 30-year-old Margo MacDonald won the Govan by-election for the SNP. Here she is campaigning in Govan where even the dogs in the street were happy to see her. Her win shook the Labour Party which had taken seats such as Govan for granted. The following year Govan barber Harry Selby, who famously told people that wanted to join Labour locally that the party was full-up in order to keep himself in power, beat Margo by a slim margin.
Margo of course returned years later to the Scottish Parliament. Harry never really made much of an impact.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel