SAW017935 SCOTLAND (1948). Glasgow, general view, showing West Street and Nelson Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.

Police box.

the house i lived in

'VIROL' billboard. During the war, and also for several years afterwards, there were many food shortages. People were only allowed so much of some particularly scarce foods. This was partly because it made things fairer for everyone, but it was also because the rationing was a lot better for us. Every member of every family would have had a ration book and it gave precise details of the amounts of certain types of food that you were allowed during one week All schoolchildren had to have a weekly dose of VIROL, a sweet and sticky extract of malt, in order to make sure they got the proper ration of vitamins; (and you weren't allowed much time to suck the spoon to get all the sticky off it!)

This building in Cook Street along with this part of Cook Street and everything around it...gone.

Building in Wallace Street, not demolished

8-14 Scotland Street, Engineering Works (Paterson Street view)

Paterson Street workshop...now buried under the M74

104 Centre Street, Grain Store

180a Centre Street, Fire Station

Centre Street, Grain Store

Still standing...

West Street Subway Station

Railway bridge over West Street

1-3 Scotland Street, Engine Works

327-343 Scotland Street, Garages & Workshops

Bonded warehouse at 401 Scotland Street and Nos 224-6 Seaward Street,

Centre St School

Nelson street corner of Centre street. Glasgow also got bombed on the same two nights of the clydebank blitz. a parachute bomb landed here between the tenements and a tram. 110 people were killed in this one explosion.

Shields Road

Scotland Street School

Centre Street Fire Station

This part of Tradeston Street was blocked off in (I think) the late 1950's. This allowed A & W Smith & Co (later Smith Mirrlees) to expand by building a "New" Bay. I worked there from 1977 'til its closure in 1988.

Cook Street

Wallace Street

Nelson Street

Tradeston Street

Centre Street

West Street