IN July 1895 the first tunnel to be driven under the Clyde – the Glasgow Harbour Tunnel – was officially opened.
Sixty-eight years later almost to the day – on July 3, 1963 – the Queen opened another.
The first of the two Clyde Tunnels, linking Whiteinch and Linthouse, was declared open by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, watched by cheering crowds and dignitaries including MPs for city constituencies.
The Queen praised the £10.5 million tunnel, describing it as a bold and imaginative project.
The Queen then drove through to the Linthouse side where she inspected the work that was being carried out on the second tunnel.
By midnight that night, nearly 11,900 vehicles had passed through, at an average of more than 1,600 an hour.
The sheer scale of the work involved in creating the tunnels is caught in this striking photograph, taken in the very early 1960s.
It is one of dozens now available to buy, framed or ready to frame, from the recently-launched Herald Picture Store - https://picturestore.heraldandtimes.co.uk – which showcases the finest images from the archives of Newsquest Scotland, the media group whose flagship brands are The Herald and heraldscotland.com.
The group’s photographers have been covering every aspect of Scottish life for well over a century.
The store includes images of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1971, featuring a then little-known Billy Connolly. Other celebrity photographs include Cary Grant, Sonny Liston and Mae West.
Football photographs range from Celtic manager Jock Stein clutching the European Cup in 1967 to a 1972 picture of elated Rangers fans returning from Barcelona, where their team had won the European Cup Winners' Cup.
The photographs in the Picture Store have been selected and captioned by Norry Wilson, a former Herald journalist who now runs the increasingly popular Lost Glasgow page on Facebook, which has more than 140,000 global followers.
Lost Glasgow is currently staging an exhibition, More Than Just Memories, at Maryhill Burgh Halls.
More details at: https://picturestore.heraldandtimes.co.uk
UK delivery is available on ready-to-frame mounted prints, at launch prices starting at £14.99. Framed prints can be bought online starting at £24.99, to be collected in person from The Herald offices at 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3QB.
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