HERALD photographer Ian Hossack always had an eye for the absurd, and here in 1977 he was much taken with a rag-and-bone man still operating on the streets of Glasgow. The cart seems overly laden, there are no mirrors to give him any idea of what is behind him, and one suspects that if the pony stumbled, the whole rickety outfit would go flying up in the air.
The picture may also bring back memories of the 59 Corporation bus which ran from Mosspark to Kelvindale. As I recall someone once telling me: “I always liked the 59. It never went through any bad areas so you never got any neds on it.”
The woman at the bus-stop is wearing a headscarf which was almost compulsory in Glasgow at one time. Funny how some folk worry about Moslem women wearing headscarves, not remembering that their grannies in Glasgow did it all the time as well.
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