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FITTINGLY for such a big man, there is no shortage of anecdotes…
ON the evening of Saturday, July 1, 1961, several thousand people…
IT’S 11.45 on a Saturday night in early August, 1960, and the…
IT IS hard to believe that it is all of 14 years since the passing…
DIRK Bogarde was the star attraction in Portpatrick, in…
THE last time Mrs Mary Galloway had to change home, it was during…
THE Vietnamese Boat People website puts it thus: “Between 1975 to…
TEDDY Taylor had been the colourful MP for Glasgow Cathcart for…
PRINCESS Margaret was full of praise for her hosts when she…
THE May 1955 General Election was a matter of days away when Labour…
“I WAS well-off at that time ... but I didn’t have the kind of…
THE great actor, writer, producer and director Orson Welles --…
GLASGOW’S new Lord Provost, Victor Warren, had to miss the kirking…
IN 1951 Dr Edwin Muir, the prominent Scottish poet, novelist and…
SHIRLEY Bassey played the Glasgow Alhambra in May 1967, and the…
“HE was one of the nicest guys in golf. He would sign autographs…
MURRAYFIELD has witnessed many pulsating rugby internationals…
“THESE are really something”, says an amused Graeme Armstrong,…
DOROTHY Lamour was just one of many American stars who played the…
JOHN Smith had a landslide victory over Bryan Gould in the Labour…
AMONG the six “trailblazing women” included in the latest…
THE Evening Times writer, Meg Munro, a self-confessed “middle-aged…
IN May 1970 Princess Anne visited the Yarrow’s yard on the Clyde…
TILDA Swinton once said that her acting career was inspired by panto…
IT is a Saturday evening at the end of June, 1966, and a substantial…
WILLIAM Hunter’s brilliant front-page account in the Glasgow…
IT is June 28, 1983, and the man newly referred to in these pages as…
ROWAN Atkinson turned up at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal in some style…
FOUR dancers – Michelle Lane, Vicki Gardner, Sue Scott and Morag…
VIVIEN Leigh caused a stir in Edinburgh when she arrived in April…
“I USED to get the subway from Partick under the Clyde to Govan…
JAMES Bennett, the MP for Glasgow Bridgeton, and parliamentary…
IT is Tuesday, November 19, 1968, and commuters on the 9am…
Bobo Integral Records (vinyl); Sound Asleep Records (CD); also on…
SOMEWHERE in the picture on the right is Harold Macmillan, who as…
ON May 4, 1970, Glasgow’s Lord Provost, Donald Liddle, waved off…
A STEADY drizzle was falling on Dumbarton Castle, on April 16, 1953.…
THE royal yacht Britannia was launched in April 1953 on a day in…
FIRST we had Ciara, now we have Dennis. Storm Ciara brought…
FOUR years before his death in 1962, the great actor Charles…
FEBRUARY 27, 1964, was a sobering day for the town of Dumbarton and…
THE horse and cattle fairs that once graced Rutherglen Main Street…
AN advertisement in the entertainment columns that day read: “Come…
Three days ago Alastair Campbell, media pundit and formerly…
TWO days ago Alastair Campbell, media pundit and formerly…
BACK in 1967, construction work on the foundations of the huge…
GLASGOW police officers had their hands full when one thousand…
“WE have aspired”, said a spokesman for Glasgow’s housing…
ON the day that Brexit finally becomes reality, it’s interesting…
IN 1987, a striking new piece of graffiti was discovered on the…
