OF course we couldn’t have pictures from the archive without highlighting Glasgow trams occasionally.

Nostalgia is a funny thing though. Whenever older readers get in touch they talk fondly of the old trams, yet the headline in the Herald in September, 1962, was “Few lament passing of last tram”. It had run from Yoker to Dalmarnock and the fare was tenpence in old money.

The big picture is from the following day when there was a procession of old trams for folk to have a final look at them.

The chap bending down is putting an old penny on the line for the metal wheels of the next tram to go over and flatten it. Souvenirs were a simple thing in those days.

The Herald summed up the common sense of Glaswegians with one stating: “My mither minds when the horse trams went aff an’ she was near greetin’ but she wouldnae be seen deid on wan noo.”

Another chap mused: “I wonder if we’ll live to see the day they run the last bus?”

The picture is taken at Glasgow Cross looking down Argyle Street, and on the right is the old Glasgow Cross Station on the Caledonian line which no longer exists.

At the top is a conductress at Knightswood Bus Station in 1959 with the machine that dispensed small square tickets of different colours to denote how far you could go. All individually numbered too.

And finally a conductor on the top deck of a tram in 1939. Love the customer’s bowler hat.