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Artikelname: Along Great Western Road:An Illustrated History of Glasgow's West End
Artikelbeschreibung: This book tells the fascinating story of the famed West End of Glasgow, Scotland’s grandest Victorian suburb. Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 historic photographs (many never before published), Along Great Western Road charts the architectural and social development of the West End from earliest times to the present, celebrating the area's picturesque townscape, illustrious residents and famous institutions.

Artikelname: Bygone Govan
Artikelbeschreibung: George Rountree spent much of his childhood in the 1930s and 40s in Govan, and has been able to bring a unique insight to the collection of pictures gathered for this book. Everything from the area's cinemas to football teams, ferries, schools and hospitals gets a mention, with historically detailed captions combined with interesting personal recollections. Items featured include the dry docks; Harland & Wolff's battery-powered locomotive; an aerial view of Fairfield's yard; the bandstand in Elder Park; an aerial view of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society's works at Shieldhall; protesters involved in the rent strike of 1915; and Govan High School on fire. Interspersed with these are pictures of the area's streets and shops, with several views of the trams and buses that served them.

Artikelname: Bygone Maryhill
Artikelbeschreibung: This is Guthrie Hutton's second book on Maryhill and illustrates the well-loved neighbourhood (including Queen's Cross and extending south as far as St George's Cross) with a new selection of period photographs and completely new captions. As well as Victorian and Edwardian views, there are several evocative pictures taken by Maryhill local Jim Leggett between the 1950s and 1970s. With the barracks, the Forth & Clyde Canal, an extensive railway network and a variety of industries jostling for space alongside streets of tenements, Maryhill has a varied and interesting history, many aspects of which are touched on here.

Artikelname: Bygone Partick
Artikelbeschreibung: Once a small weaving village, Partick grew with the local shipbuilding industry and became an independent burgh in 1852, before reluctantly being annexed by Glasgow in 1912. It is now one of the best preserved and most attractive tenement suburbs of the city. Bill Spalding's book contains a rare picture of some of the old two-storey houses that were demolished as Victorian redevelopment took place. Elsewhere there's a good cross-section of street scenes and life on the river, including Barclay Curle's Clydeholm shipyard, the ferries that plied between Partick and Govan, and Cluthas (small passenger boats) operating between Stockwell Bridge and Whiteinch. The book includes Kelvingrove Park, and touches upon Dowanhill, Thornwood, Broomhill and Whiteinch.

Artikelname: Bygone Pollokshaws
Artikelbeschreibung: George Rountree's second book for Stenlake on Pollokshaws features an entirely new collection of pictures, accompanied by the author's trademark detailed captions. The Round Toll, Old Coach Inn, Wellgreen, Cross Street, Harriet Street, Shawbridge Street, King Street, Royal George building, old Shaws Bridge, Lilybank Place, Kirk Lane, Townshouse, Old Stag Inn and Riverford Road are some of the locations featured, while there are also photos of a birthday celebration in the grounds of Pollok House, Pollokshaws Bowling Club, staff at the Victoria Pottery and pupils at St Conval's Primary School.

Artikelname: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Co., 1854 to 2004
Artikelbeschreibung: Charles Rennie Mackintosh was the third partner of John Honeyman and Keppie, the architectural practice now called Keppie Design which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2004. Keppie's current managing director, David Stark, explores the development of the practice and its legacy of buildings across the West of Scotland and beyond, including the influential Mackintosh years. But this isn't just another dry book about buildings. It's also a tale of Victorian industrialists and their wealth and lifestyles; Kate Cranston and her famous tea rooms; and of other lesser-known architectural names such as John Keppie and Graham Henderson. From the white heat of Victorian economic activity and the resultant boom in the building of churches, charitable institutions and country villas, the story moves through more difficult years for the profession with a candour not often found in company histories. It is brought up to date with an examination of current trends and recent projects at a time when architecture is once again flourishing.

Artikelname: Forth and Clyde; The Comeback Canal
Artikelbeschreibung: Forth and Clyde, The Comeback Canal is the follow-up to Guthrie Hutton's 1991 book A Forth and Clyde Canalbum (now out of print). Guthrie has had a long-term interest in and involvement with the Forth and Clyde Canal, and was instrumental in securing the 1997 Heritage Lottery Fund award which led to the restoration and reopening of the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals in 2002. The approach of this exciting new development rendered some aspects of his original book out of date, and this newer volume combines fresh text with many new archive photographs, unearthed since the publication of the first book.

Artikelname: Glasgow and Dunbartonshire's Lost Railways
Artikelbeschreibung: Glasgow is unique among British cities in that it has the largest rail network outside of London, and there was once a time when the city had four very grand stations - Central, Queen Street, St Enoch's and Buchanan Street. Two of these have gone, but the years up to the 1960s - the heyday of the city's railways - are captured in this collection of fifty-two photographs from the period, accompanied by a history of each of the city's lines. The neighbouring region of Dunbartonshire is also covered and was itself unique in that Milngavie was the home of one of the world's first monorail systems. Stations featured in the book - many of them long gone - include Cowlairs, Possilpark, Eglinton Street, Buchanan Street, Dalmuir Riverside, Stobcross, Bellahouston, Summerston, Maryhill Central, St Enoch's, Partick West, Cumberland Street, the Singer Terminal (Clydebank), Rutherglen and Strathbungo.

Artikelname: Glasgow and Dunbartonshire's Lost Railways
Artikelbeschreibung: Glasgow is unique among British cities in that it has the largest rail network outside of London, and there was once a time when the city had four very grand stations - Central, Queen Street, St Enoch's and Buchanan Street. Two of these have gone, but the years up to the 1960s - the heyday of the city's railways - are captured in this collection of fifty-two photographs from the period, accompanied by a history of each of the city's lines. The neighbouring region of Dunbartonshire is also covered and was itself unique in that Milngavie was the home of one of the world's first monorail systems. Stations featured in the book - many of them long gone - include Cowlairs, Possilpark, Eglinton Street, Buchanan Street, Dalmuir Riverside, Stobcross, Bellahouston, Summerston, Maryhill Central, St Enoch's, Partick West, Cumberland Street, the Singer Terminal (Clydebank), Rutherglen and Strathbungo.

Artikelname: Glasgow in the Age of the Tram
Artikelbeschreibung: All aboard for a trip down memory lane! With evocative street scenes of postwar Glasgow and its suburbs gracing the pages, we start our journey in the city centre, travelling out by the various routes through the inner suburbs to the various termini of the once extensive system - how could we let them pull them all up, only to find that street trams are returning to many city streets 50 or so years since the last of the 'olduns' left the depots, and who knows perhaps they will one day return to Glasgow.

Artikelname: Glasgow's Last Days of Steam
Artikelbeschreibung: In 1831 the opening of the Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway heralded the arrival of the Railway Age in Glasgow and within just a few decades the city was enjoying one of the largest suburban networks in Britain. The Glasgow City & District Railway alone carried 15,000 passengers on its opening day! Remnants are still in use, but in this collection of fifty-five photographs, all taken by himself, the author remembers the final years of steam on this remarkable network (and eccentricities such as the trains which ran on the tramlines of Renfrew Road and the 'Television Train', from which cabaret shows were broadcast to the nation), before the vagaries of British Rail and subsequent privatisation took their toll. Locations featured - all adorned by the steam locomotives which worked the network - include: Bellahouston sidings, Bellahouston & Dumbreck, Buchanan Street, Cadder yard, Carntyne, Central, Corkerhill depot, Cowlairs depot, Dawsholm depot, Eastfield, Ibrox, Knightswood South Junction, Larkfield sidings, Maryhill Junction, Mount Florida, Partick, Partick Hill, Partick West, Polmadie depot, Queen Street, Renfrew Road, St Enoch, St Rollox, Scotstounhill, Shields Junction, South Side, Springburn works and Strathbungo.

Artikelname: Old Anderston and Finnieston
Artikelbeschreibung: Local history of this inner city area of Glasgow, illustrated throughout with scarce old photographs. Featured subjects include Stobcross Motor Garage, Cranstonhill Labour Exchange, Anderston Cross, the M8, Argyle Street, building of the Kingston Bridge, Main Street Anderston, Anderston Cross Station, Bishop Street, McAlpine Street, Piccadilly Street, Cheapside Street, Stobcross Street, McIntyre Street, Hydepark Street, Hill Street, Elderslie Street, Kent Road School, Finnieston Cross, Stobcross Station and more.

Artikelname: Old Baillieston, Garrowhill and Easterhouse
Artikelbeschreibung: Rhona Wilson, formerly our in-house author and now marketing manager at Stenlake Publishing, revisits her hometown of Baillieston and its environs in what is one of our most popular Glasgow 'borderlands' titles. The book features a number of cracking tram photos, plus atmospheric pictures of Edwardian Baillieston with horses and carts, sheep being driven down Glasgow Road (an unimaginable idea nowadays) and children playing on the pavement. About half of the book is devoted to Baillieston, the rest being divided between Swinton, Garrowhill, Bargeddie, Mount Vernon and finally Easterhouse, shown when it was still a mining and canalside village.

Artikelname: Old Bishopbriggs
Artikelbeschreibung: Old Bishopbriggs charts the development of the town from its position as a minor industrial player at the beginning of the last century to dormitory suburb status today. As well as Bishopbriggs itself, Auchinairn, Colston, Kenmure House, Mavis Valley, St Mary's Boys School and Cadder are also included. For the transport buff, there are a number of good tram shots and some views on the Forth & Clyde Canal showing the famous Queens (a fondly remembered series of pleasure boats). The grim Cadder Pit disaster of 1913 in which 22 men lost their lives is also covered. This is an interesting book with a lot of good pictures showing a place that can seem a bit dull on the surface to visit today.

Artikelname: Old Bridgeton and Calton
Artikelbeschreibung: Bridgeton and Calton formed the heart of Glasgow's old East End until half the area was swept away in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Eric Eunson chronicles the rise and fall of these two neighbourhoods, covering their early history along with the story of Glasgow Green and its various uses and entertainments, the much-travelled McLennan Arch, and the origins of the name Shipka Pass. Shops, merchants and pubs - including, of course, the famous Sarry Heid (Saracen Head) - are featured, along with views of the Gallowgate, London Street, Abercromby Street, London Road, Bellgrove Street and more, not forgetting Bridgeton Cross and the 'umbrella'. The book finishes up with pictures of Dalmarnock Road and its surroundings.

Artikelname: Old Cardonald
Artikelbeschreibung: The pictures in Old Cardonald actually start outside the area at Paisley Road Toll, proceeding through Halfway before reaching Cardonald proper. Once there, some early interior views of Nazareth House are featured before the route continues via Hillington Park Circus, Hillington Gardens, the bowling green and tennis club and Traquair Road. There are some peaceful shots of an almost traffic-free Paisley Road in the 1920s, and some surprisingly interesting views of a sewage tunnel being constructed, plus good bus and tram pictures for transport fans. Crookston is included also, as are Mosspark Drive and Boulevard (every council tenant once dreamed of a four-apartment house on the Boulevard), plus Leverndale Hospital. There's a brief stop at the author's own street before the journey continues to Corkerhill, Nitshill and the Hurlet. Although there is a fair amount of Cardonald material in this book, it really covers a much wider area.

Artikelname: Old Cathcart, Langside & Mount Florida
Artikelbeschreibung: This is a first-rate collection of pictures with top-notch text written by one of our most experienced authors. The sequence starts at Battlefield with old cottages near the monument, continues past the Free Church, along Millbrae Road and down Overdale Street (where Stenlake Publishing was once based). It then moves on to Cathcart via Sinclair Drive, Ledard Road and other streets, with a quick backtrack to the Victoria Infirmary before continuing past the college and going on to Mount Florida. Queen's Park FC, Hampden Park, Cathkin Park and the ill-fated Third Lanark football team are all covered. The Cathcart material is varied and interesting and includes the flooded Holmlea allotments, Holmlea Road, the Wallace-Scott tailoring institute, the Parish Church, Old Castle Road, the Snuff Mill, the erstwhile castle, Cathcart House (now demolished), Millholm paper mill and some delightful art deco period tea-rooms in Linn Park.

Artikelname: Old Clarkston and Netherlee
Artikelbeschreibung: Potted local history and informative captions accompany a variety of old photographs of the Glasgow south side suburbs of Clarkston and Netherlee, with an emphasis on the 1920s and 1930s with some later photos also.

Artikelname: Old Cowcaddens, Possilpark and Lambhill
Artikelbeschreibung: If ever a book deserved the title of 'Old' then this is it. The Cowcaddens of old has been almost completely obliterated, and Andy Stuart's book starts with a number of pictures of streets in this area that have been completely swept away. Heading away from there he follows a route along Dobbie's Loan, up Garscube Road and up Possil Road past the austere Oakbank Hospital. From there the journey continues to Possilpark, with pictures of the public school, co-op and several views of Saracen Street and Cross. The selection finishes at Lambhill. Some excellent tram photographs by the late W. Douglas MacMillan feature in the book, whilst Andy's informative text brings these now forlorn areas back to life.

Artikelname: Old Dennistoun
Artikelbeschreibung: Andy Stuart never writes a duff book and the sales figures for this one - over 3,500 copies to date - speak for themselves. However, if you need further convincing then here are some of the places featured: Alexandra Parade, Dennistoun baths, Whitevale bowling green, the park, Cumbernauld Road, Aberfeldy Street, Edinburgh Road, Aitken Street, Haghill School, St Rollox bowling green, Cumbernauld Road, Meadowpark Street, Armadale Street, Whitehill Street and School, Duke Street, Bellgrove Street, the Eastern District Hospital and the Palais de Danse.

Artikelname: Old Glasgow and The Clyde - From the archives of T. & R. Annan
Artikelbeschreibung: Thomas Annan established his photography business in 1855, and within a matter of years had become Glasgow's pre-eminent commercial photographer. This stunning selection of photographs from the company's archive records city life and shipping on the Clyde in both the relatively recent past and during Glasgow's Victorian heyday. There are classic views of High Street and the neighbouring streets before much of the area was cleared in the 1860s, as well as photographs of the city centre in the era of trams and horse-drawn transport. A chapter on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Kate Cranston recalls the collaboration between these legendary Glasgow figures, with the buildings and interiors they worked on captured in T. & R. Annan's photographs.

Artikelname: Old Govanhill
Artikelbeschreibung: Eric Eunson shows this close-knit part of the city when many of its buildings were relatively new, and it was both a bustling residential neighbourhood and an industrial centre. Dixon's Blazes and the Queen's Park Locomotive Works contrast with the likes of Crosshill Boating Pond and Govanhill's American Roller Skating Rink, which was later converted to a cinema and then demolished. The book also includes two pictures of Polmadie, and extends up to the posh flats of Balmoral Crescent, facing onto Queen's Park.

Artikelname: Old Maryhill
Artikelbeschreibung: Believe it or not, this area of Glasgow took its name from one Mary Hill, who granted land from her Gairbraid Estate for the building of a village on the condition that it bore her name. The Forth and Clyde Canal prompted Maryhill's development, and the new waterway attracted boat-building, saw-milling and other industries such as ironfounding to its banks. Pictures of the mills on the Kelvin, along with the area's former mansions, such as Bonville and Garscube House, show a surprisingly rural-looking Maryhill, although there are also plenty of photos of a bustling Maryhill Road lined with trams and packed with shops. Other pictures include a vintage Partick Thistle line-up (along with two other less well-known local football teams), the Bryant and May factory, the barracks, station, loads of canalside pictures, and the New Star and Roxy cinemas.

Artikelname: Old Parkhead
Artikelbeschreibung: Charlie MacDonald, lifelong native of Parkhead, has gathered a fantastically varied collection of pictures for this book. They range from a shot of Camlachie Jail, to a posthumous photo of Bobby the Deer (the last of his kind to roam free in Tollcross Park), after he was stuffed and put on display in the children's museum in the park. There's also the Model Lodging House, the London Road Tavern, Parkhead weans - complete with gas masks - about to be evacuated during the Second World War, the area's last row of weavers' cottages, the train station and Beardmore's works.

Artikelname: Old Pollokshaws
Artikelbeschreibung: Pollokshaws underwent wholesale redevelopment in the 1960s when most of its original buildings and many of its streets were completely obliterated. George Rountree lived in the area during this period of upheaval, so has first-hand memories of how the former burgh used to look. About half of the pictures were taken just prior to redevelopment, while the rest are earlier (Edwardian) views. The more modern ones include many former shops, businesses and landmarks that will be familiar to the older residents of Pollokshaws. Local transport is well covered with pictures of trams and a view of the Newlands bus depot, while the likes of Townshouse Square, the Round Toll before the advent of the roundabout, the old Co-op premises in Shawbridge Street and the Pollok Cinema complete the picture.

Artikelname: Old Queen's Park
Artikelbeschreibung: A comprehensive collection of pictures showing all the best-known locations in this area, including Victoria Road, Shawlands Cross and Pollokshaws Road, as well as Queen's Park itself, with well-to-do Edwardians out for a walk with their children or listening to a concert at the bandstand. There are some more unusual items too, such as the runaway tram which wreaked havoc on its aborted journey to Mount Florida, and a rare picture of a car produced by the short-lived Kennedy Motor Company of Barrland Street.

Artikelname: Old Riddrie, Millerston and Stepps
Artikelbeschreibung: Riddrie, Millerston and Stepps were once rural estates outside the city of Glasgow. Nowadays they're better known for the housing schemes and city institutions that have been built on them. There's a real mixture in this book, from rural scenes of Wallace's Well, to pictures of prison guards standing outside their (now demolished) tenements at Barlinnie. The Monkland Canal is included too, as well as loads of cracking shots of Glasgow's trams, photographed as they rattled to and from the terminus at Riddrie, and later Millerston after the line was extended. Hogganfield Loch, Mossbank Industrial School, Robroyston Hospital, the Wallace Monument, Cardowan Colliery and Provan gasworks are also featured.

Artikelname: Old Rutherglen
Artikelbeschreibung: This collection of pictures dates from long before Rutherglen's controversial absorption by Glasgow. Main Street is shown intact, prior to its redevelopment, and in one picture dozens of horses are lined up for sale in the street on a fair day. Picturesque Burnside Loch (drained in the inter-war years) and Burnside Bowling Green are featured, along with local football teams, the Victoria Gardens allotments, White's Chemical Works and the local tram network.

Artikelname: Old Scotstoun & Whiteinch
Artikelbeschreibung: These two densely populated areas of Glasgow have seen some major changes over the past 100 years: the building of the Clyde Tunnel led to the demolition of numerous tenements in Whiteinch, whilst virtually all of the heavy industry ranged along the Clyde in this part of the city has now vanished. Included among this selection of pictures are such unlikely subjects as Balshagray Farm and a group of thatched cottages at the corner of Anniesland Road and Lincoln Avenue, both now long-gone. There are also views of Barclay Curle's and Yarrow's shipyards. Pictures of vehicles made by Albion Motors (once located in Scotstoun), as well as numerous views of the trams that served these districts, plus a picture of an early bus and two railway photographs provide coverage of local transport. Elsewhere the changing face of Victoria Park is contrasted with the streets of solid tenements and sandstone villas that still make up much of modern Scotstoun and Whiteinch.

Artikelname: Old Shettleston & Tollcross
Artikelbeschreibung: Pictures of Carntyne farm show that Shettleston and Tollcross were once rural neighbourhoods, far from the city centre. In fact when Eastbank Academy was built in the early 1890s its proposer was ridiculed because the school was considered to be too big for a village. For the most part, however, Rhona Wilson's book shows these east end districts as bustling tenement suburbs, their streets crammed with pubs, shops and trams. Horse-drawn carts, steam trains, and a glimpse of the old Green's Cinema complete the picture.

Artikelname: Old Thornliebank
Artikelbeschreibung: Thornliebank mushroomed in the early nineteenth century after the influential Crum family bought a nearby printfield and cotton mill in the 1780s. The family rapidly expanded their textile weaving and printing empire, building much of the village and employing most of its residents. This collection of photographs includes well-known landmarks such as the former Andersons Garage, the printworks, Cochrane's grocers, Campsie Terrace, Eastwood Crescent and the Queen Mary Tea Gardens, along with pictures of Spiersbridge and Rouken Glen.

Artikelname: Old Townhead's a Goner
Artikelbeschreibung: The picture on the cover of this book - showing the piles of rubble created when much of Townhead was demolished to make way for the M8 motorway - sums up what happened to this densely populated part of Glasgow. Andy Stewart's book recalls the district when it was a close-knit community, with heavy industry sitting cheek by jowl alongside packed tenements. There's a photograph of the 435 foot chimney of St Rollox works, along with the steelworks at Blochairn and David Rattray's Cycle Depot - another victim of the 1970s motorway development. Garngad steamie, St Mungo FC, and local cinemas such as the Carlton Picture House and the Casino are among the many other locations featured.

Artikelname: Partick Remembered
Artikelbeschreibung: Whilst Bygone Partick draws mainly on Edwardian images, Partick Remembered features photographs from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. There's some fantastic social history here - children playing at shops in a back court, barrels of beer being delivered to the Windsor Bar, the steamie (wash house) in Purdon Street, and even a midden-man at work. Other pictures feature fantastic 1940s shopfronts and plenty of street life with trams and shoppers out and about in a busy Dumbarton Road.

Artikelname: Scotland's Millennium Canals: The Survival and Revival of the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals
Artikelbeschreibung: In the late eighteenth century, Scotland's men of commerce had a vision - of goods moving easily from sea to sea and city to city. Instead of being carted at a snail's pace on rough unmade roads in tiny quantities, wheat, sugar, salt and more would move in bulk - at speed. So the Forth & Clyde Canal was born, with profit as its motive and Glasgow as its focus. Later, the Union Canal was constructed, completing the network by providing a link from Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal at Falkirk. But the Great War closed the ports on the Forth, and afterwards metalled roads and powerful lorries killed the canals commercially. By the mid-1960s both were closed. After over thirty years of campaigning and an ambitious £78 million Millennium Lottery Fund application, Scotland's Millennium Canals have been reborn, with the Falkirk Wheel, a giant rotating boat-lift, as their centrepiece.

Artikelname: Steamers of the Forth
Artikelbeschreibung: Together with a companion volume subtitled 'Ferry Crossings and River Sailings this book tells the story of local passenger sailings on the River and Firth of Forth. All activity relating to services starting east of the Queensferry narrows is covered in this volume, with the exception of the Fife and Midlothian ferries from Newhaven to Pettycur and Burntisland, and their successor between Granton and Burntisland, which were controlled by Parliamentary Act and feature in volume one. Detailed captions accompany a wide-ranging selection of photographs illustrating vessels that plied on the Forth. Ian Brodie's captions are informative and accessible, making them of interest to general readers and not just steamer enthusiasts.

Artikelname: Steamers of the Forth:Volume 1: Ferry Crossings and River Sailings
Artikelbeschreibung: Together with a companion volume subtitled 'Firth Services and Excursions', this book tells the story of local passenger sailings on the River and Firth of Forth. The ferry crossings controlled by Parliamentary Acts are covered in this volume, as are the river sailings and crossings commencing at Queensferry or operating upriver from there. Comprising photographs and other illustrations accompanied by detailed captions, the book is divided into several sections: Pioneer Steam Services, The Railway Ferries, The Stirling Steamer Service, The Ferries, 1890-1919, River Excursions, The Inter-war Years, and The Post-war Years. Ian Brodie's informative captions will be of interest to both aficionados and general readers.

Artikelname: The Caledonian Canal: Lochs, Locks and Pleasure Steamers
Artikelbeschreibung: The Caledonian Canal was cut to link Scotland's east and west coasts and among its many users were boats engaged in herring fishing - as the fish migrated, they were followed from coast to coast by vessels using the canal as a short cut. There was also a thriving tourist trade, with holidaymakers travelling from as far south as Glasgow, sailing via the Clyde, the Crinan Canal, up the west coast and through the Caledonian Canal to Inverness. Thanks to Queen Victoria, this became known as the 'Royal Route'. These and other aspects of the canal's history are illustrated with 53 photographs.

Artikelname: The Gorbals - An Illustrated History
Artikelbeschreibung: A must-have for anyone with any interest in the Gorbals, this is one of our best-selling titles and deservedly so. It includes two specially drawn maps by Ronald Smith showing the Gorbals in 1858 and 1910, plus about 200 photographs of this notorious and decimated area. The text covers the period from the thirteenth century to the mid-1990s, but while there are a few photographs and illustrations dating from before the Second World War (plus a dozen or so showing the rise and fall - literally! - of the 1970s developments), the vast majority of the pictures date from the 1950s and 1960s. They were commissioned by Glasgow City Council in connection with the redevelopment of the area and cover the Gorbals along with Tradeston, Kingston, Laurieston, Hutchesontown and Oatlands. Many of the streets, shops, factories and buildings depicted will be well-rememberd by former Gorbals residents.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Glasgow
Artikelbeschreibung: This was the first book to come out in our 'Wheels Around' series, and has justifiably proved extremely popular. It's much more than just a transport book, and will appeal to anyone with connections to Glasgow, featuring as it does fantastic shots of city streets that also happen to include interesting 'wheeled' features. There's a picture of an aeroplane being towed along St Vincent Street, St Enoch Square packed with cars and buses, and a Cunarder tram clattering towards Glasgow Cross. Other delights include a horse-drawn Barr's Irn Bru cart and views of Buchanan Street before it was pedestrianised.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Glasgow_1
Artikelbeschreibung: This was the first book to come out in our 'Wheels Around' series, and has justifiably proved extremely popular. It's much more than just a transport book, and will appeal to anyone with connections to Glasgow, featuring as it does fantastic shots of city streets that also happen to include interesting 'wheeled' features. There's a picture of an aeroplane being towed along St Vincent Street, St Enoch Square packed with cars and buses, and a Cunarder tram clattering towards Glasgow Cross. Other delights include a horse-drawn Barr's Irn Bru cart and views of Buchanan Street before it was pedestrianised.