Scottish Flashback: Glasgow’s Union Street, 1961

Union Street, Christmas Eve, 1962. Picture: TSPLplaceholder image
Union Street, Christmas Eve, 1962. Picture: TSPL

IN THE fourth edition of our series of ‘festive’ Scottish Flashbacks, we’re in Glasgow city centre.

It may not look like it - mainly down to the absence of snow and Christmas lights - but this was taken on Christmas Eve in 1961.

The keen-eyed amongst you will notice a branch of Boots in the bottom right, opposite a Burton shop.

There’s also a Glasgow tram, and the No 38 bus in the foreground of the picture.

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