Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s

In his introduction to the book, John recounts how his interest in Glasgow, especially its transport and industries, grew through his schooldays then his university days and continued to eventually become a cornerstone of his life as he became Scotland’s pre-eminent industrial historian, and maybe even more importantly, recorder of that industry in decay and loss through his camera lens. Now long retired, but still industrious himself, he continues to write and publish, drawing on his vast archive of photographs. This book is a collection of his photos of Glasgow with love, sometimes evocative, as on the front cover, but often of forlorn, decrepit, or half-demolished buildings, once glorious but now showing warts and all. John’s Glasgow of these decades could be scruffy and long uncared-for or well-kept, like the Glasgow Underground Govan Depot or the Glenlee moored at Yorkhill Quay. Highlights include the maintenance train at the Cut of Junction in Townhead powered by a Rob Roy for model engineers plus the Erskine on the Renfrew Ferry service and an Andrew Barclay locomotive being loaded at King George V Dock. 

48 pages, 53 colour and black & white illustrations. Landscape paperback,

If you knew Glasgow in the 1960 and 1970s this will bring the memories flooding back!