GOODNESS there is so much to drink in with the eye here. It is Glasgow's Botanic Gardens of course, and the lack of vehicular traffic and the clear road ahead would make anyone who has driven up Great Western Road recently, swoon. Only older readers will recognise the towers on the building to the right which makes it look like a Greek Orthodox church. It was in fact the railway station inside the gardens which closed as a station during the Second World War and later became the nightclub Sgt Pepper's. Alas a fire in 1970, assumed to be caused by a dropped fag, damaged the roof, and the then Glasgow Corporation, in its usual rash enthusiasm, had the whole building pulled down.

Note too the long dresses of the women - the picture was taken in 1905 - the solid looking pram, but also the pushchair which looks remarkably modern for the time. A delivery man has a wicker basket on his head, the tram is going to Oatlands on the south side, and sadly the ornate lamp-posts are no more. shame.