THERE is not much to it, but already you can make out, if you know your Glasgow architecture, what is emerging from the scaffolding.

Yes, this is the Kelvin Hall under construction in 1926. Already its distinctive walls are emerging, and to confirm the location, if you look at the foreground, you can work out that the picture was taken from Kelvingrove Art Gallery across the road.

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They didn't hang about in those days. The original wooden structure, the Industrial Hall, built as a temporary building for the 1901 International Exhibition, was burned down in 1925.

The replacement Kelvin Hall, designed to house large exhibitions, immediately replaced it and opened in 1927.

During the war it was a factory producing barrage balloons, but most Glaswegians will know it for such post-war staples as the Carnival and Circus, the Modern Homes Exhibition, Transport Museum and world boxing title fights.

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Currently it is about to reopen after a £35m refit, with a new gym, sports hall, National Library of Scotland archives, and museum store-rooms.