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Those were the days - 1967-1983: Alex Ferguson as player and manager

LONG, long before he acquired the first of his many high-profile,…

Those were the days - 1966-1979: Workers and unions flex their muscles

AS you thumb through the indexes of books written by or about…

Those were the days - Within these walls: Duke Street prison, 1956-1959

TWELVE people were hanged at Glasgow’s Duke Street Prison between…

1950-1980: The Herald, back in the day

TONIGHT sees the screening of the first part of a two-part BBC…

Those were the days - 1966-1973: Old Glasgow buildings

THE intriguing history of buildings in Glasgow is a subject that has…

Those were the days - 1964-1988: Music to the ears of pop fans

MANY of today's bestselling pop acts have armies of fans so…

Obituary: LaShawn Daniels, Grammy-winning songwriter who wrote hits for many artists

Songwriter and producer

1955: A quiet day at the station, thanks to a nationwide strike

ON a normal Monday, the Buchanan Street station in Glasgow would…

Those were the days - 1947-1992: Protesters make their feelings known

THE post-war food situation in Britain gave rise to considerable…

Those were the days -1938-1964: Count Basie, Ivor Novello, Dusty Springfield at the Central

FOR many years, Glasgow’s Central Hotel, adjoining Central…

Four Scots, four cities: the expats selling Scottish food and drink overseas

A BAR where everyone knows your name, in the Jamaica Plain area of…

Those were the days - 1953: The Queen’s State visit to Edinburgh

THE weather, as the Glasgow Herald’s Christopher Small wrote on…

Those were the days - 1947-1949: The early years of Calderpark Zoo

LOST in wonder, children wandered around the newly-opened zoo, as…

Those were the days - 1951-1966: Gales and cloudbursts across Scotland

THAT summer of 1966 (main image, far right, taken in Glasgow’s…

Those were the days - 1992: Twelve thousand fish suppers, please ...

LONGISH queues outside fish and chip shops are not too unusual,…

Those were the days - 1978-1987: Kids at play - and in court, too

SOME of the best pictures in the Herald’s huge archive are of the…

1956-1968: Scot Symon, a football great

SCOT Symon was the manager of Rangers when in October 1956 they…

Those were the days -1938: The fountain that turned into a block of ice

THE Christmas of 1938, this paper wrote on Tuesday, December 27, was…

Those were the days: 1949-1964: Danny Kaye, Liberace, Orbison in town

SHOWBIZ fans aren’t the only ones who are mesmerised when a big…

1947-1952: Scots prepare for new lives overseas

WHERE are they now? What happened to these Scots lads who set sail…

1955-1983: The late, great Chic Murray

JACK House, the venerable Evening Times writer, recalled the day…

Those were the days - 1956-1970: The wonder of Woolies

THE actor Dirk Bogarde was not the only person to succumb to the…

Those were the days - 1975-1980: Connolly’s panto “rougher than Citizens’”

IN April 1980 Billy Connolly was photographed (main image, far…

Those were the days - 1936-1988: Shipbuilding on the Clyde

THE continuing controversy over the Scottish Government’s…

Those were the days - 1952-1965: The joys of holidaying in Scotland

EVEN in 1965, Spain’s Costa Brava had a dubious reputation among…

Those were the days - 1971-1981: The Queen and the ‘bears’ of Sullom Voe

SOME people understandably become tongue-tied when meeting the…

Glasgow University faces up to role in slavery

ELEVEN months ago, Glasgow University announced a "pro-active…

Those were the days - 1954-1984: Jock Stein, the man with the Midas touch

WRITING in September 1985, a few days after the sudden death of Jock…

Those were the days - 1945-1953: Churchill visits Ayr and Glasgow

TWO years after the Second World War came to an end, Winston…

Those were the days - 1983: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the greatest singer of them all?

BARRY Manilow’s appearances at the Glasgow Apollo in September…

1976: Childs’ play - even on a demolition site in Maryhill

JUST last month, Theresa May’s education secretary, Damian Hinds,…

Those were the days - 1956: ‘Good old Satchmo’, a lone voice called out at the end

IT was once said of Louis Armstrong that, when asked, ‘What is…

The Glaswegians aiming to turn the Gallowgate into the 'new Finnieston'

IT'S hard not to succumb to the rough-and-ready charm of the…

Those were the days - 1952: Celtic player held for ‘ransom’ by motley crew of students

“WHILE the history of Celtic has featured many great characters,…

Those were the days - 1946: Glasgow welcomes the great Irving Berlin

THE great American composer and lyricist Irving Berlin arrived in…

Those were the days - 1987: Seven hours of hard rock in the sunshine in Glasgow

THE distinctive Glasgow band Chou Pahrot was one of the highlights…

Those were the days - 1958: Women’s World Curling Championship gets underway

“THE Icewoman Cometh, but very slowly,” a literary-minded female…

Those were the days - 1979: Abba hit the road again and delight their Glasgow fans

ABBA - Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog and…

Those were the days - 1979: The kids learning the dances perfected by their parents

“FOR years there’s been no such thing as proper dancing,”…

Those were the days - 1960: “For this job, you’ve just got to be waterproof”

SOME 50 young, go-ahead women in the Glasgow area had applied by…

Those were the days - 1927: Royal Scot locomotive raises funds for a good cause

RECORD runs were made on September 26, 1927, by the new Royal Scot…

Those were the days - 1963: It's Firhill for chills as the Big Freeze continues

THE winter of 1962-63 was the coldest in this country for more than…

Those were the days - 1988: Charles and Diana view the garden festival from a tram

ALL eyes were on the Princess of Wales as she and her husband toured…

Those were the days - 1955: Rosemary Clooney meets her fans in Glasgow

THE secret of the American entertainer Rosemary Clooney’s great…

Those were the days - 1941: Exiled Norwegian king attends ship launch on the Clyde

THE Norwegian King Haakon VII and his family and his ministers had…

'Glasgow is ready for a Michelin star,' says One Devonshire chef Gary Townsend

Readers of The Herald Magazine will soon be able to recreate the…

Those were the days - 1970: Queen given savings books for Andrew and Edward

LAUGHTER and applause rang out as the Queen was handed two savings…

1968: ‘One of the worst days I’ve ever known’ - A.A spokesman

TUESDAY, November 12, 1968, was a chaotic day in Glasgow’s…

Those were the days -1953: Rabbits in the spotlight at the Scottish Dairy Show

THERE was a solid list of entertainments on offer in Glasgow that…

Those were the days - 1966: Goalless final was ‘as unsatisfactory as tonic without gin’

“THERE was a rough as well as unfinished quality about the…