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streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject:

Robertson St, east side. April 1974

Broomielaw east of Robertson St. April 1974

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject:

Broomielaw west of Robertson St. April 1974

Argyle St and West Campbell St. April 1974

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject:

Argyle St west of West Campbell St. April 1974

West Campbell St, east side at Holm St. April 1974

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:23 pm Post subject:

Bothwell St, south side west of Pitt St. The Eagle Building (Kirkland, 1854) was under threat of demolition, but the developers were prevailed upon to include this façade, complete with eagle, within the new structure. June 1975

West George St, north side at Holland St. Glass boxes now. June 1975

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject:

West George St, St Jude’s (Stephen, 1839) before it became a restaurant. June 1975

West George St, north side east of Wellington St. This lovely late Georgian house (probably by John Brash, who built Blythswood Square) has had its windows restored to their original form, divided by astragals into small panes, which is a great improvement on the wall-eyed look it has here. June 1975

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject:

100 West Regent St. The former Masonic Hall, with its statues of the St Johns, Baptist and Evangelist, looked in danger, but it has survived. August 1977

Gordon St, north side opposite Central Station. The Grosvenor Building (1862) by Alexander Thomson was a speculative venture with his brother, and it almost ruined them. August 1977

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject:

Drury St, south side. Pubs may come and pubs may go, but The Horse Shoe goes on for ever, or let’s hope so anyway. August 1977

West George St, south side west of Anchor Lane. Just in time, or just too late, depending on which way you look at it, with demolition imminent. October 1975

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject:

West George St. August 1975

Buchanan St before pedestrianisation above Gordon St. August 1975

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject:

Dundas St, west side. There were two churches opposite each other, above Cathedral St. This was the Evangelical Union . . . October 1973

Dundas St, east side. . . . and this was the United Free Tron. November 1973

streapadair · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject:

West Nile St and Sauchiehall St, northeast corner. This fine church, said to have had an equally fine interior, was St John’s Wesleyan Methodist. It was demolished a year or two later, and the southwest corner of the Buchanan Galleries now occupies the site. March 1974

Hope St, west side south from Bath St. Little changed. October 1973