GLASGOW was transformed by the sights and sounds of decades past as the Merchant City Festival 2013 took over an area of the city.
As hoped by organisers Glasgow Life, the event attracted more than 100,000 people over five days to enjoy street theatre, music and dance with visual arts, comedy and literature.
The designers Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway MBE also brought their award-winning Vintage festival to the city for its Scottish debut.
Mr Hemingway said: "It seems no time at all since we announced that Vintage would be a real highlight of Merchant City Festival 2013 and I think we've made good on that promise.
"We've always heard that Glasgow loves to party and my experience this weekend shows just how true that is. We have loved being part of the festival and really hope to be back next year."
The wider festival programme embraced celebrations marking One Year to Go to the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the fourth annual Surge Festival.
More than 100 events, most free to attend, transformed the area around the city's Candleriggs with style from the 1940s to the 1980s.
A cinema club showcased the best of the 1940s and 50s with screenings of movies and some unseen archive footage.
The Street Rope Factory created an intricate web of coloured ropes representing the 71 sovereign states of the Commonwealth that made a large map onto which children could climb.
The Surge Festival brought physical theatre to the streets, including a major showcase of international work by street theatre groups from Catalonia.
The streets around King Street were turned into a Family Zone and well-kent Scottish comedians such as Janey Godley took visitors on unique tours of the city in vintage buses.
Councillor Gordon Matheson, chairman of the Merchant City Festival, said: "The weekend has been amazing. Tens of thousands of people have joined us for another outstanding Merchant City Festival. An incredible array of events and performances and the good weather have created a tangible buzz across the city's cultural centre."
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