STOCKWELL Street, just off Glasgow’s Trongate, has changed considerably in the 45 years since this photograph was taken. Part of the street,” the Evening Times wrote in May 1973, “is covered by the old railway bridge along which trains to and from St Enoch station trundled. Now modern cars use the bridge which leads to the massive car-park at the old station.” Those shopkeepers whose properties were under the old bridge were, almost literally, in the dark.
The street was home to a cluster of retail names, some old, some new. Henry Healy’s latest grocery shop had opened a few months earlier, the only one in the Healy chain with a snack-bar. The House of Brahms, a furniture store, had opened at roughly the same time. “Continental furniture is all the rage at the moment, with French and Swedish furniture to the fore,” the paper said. At number 8 was Latters, a department store. Its female fashions included short tie-belt jackets, which many young women favoured at the time. Its budget wedding dresses retailed for between £16 and £40.
At number 43 was Jackson’s Fur Shop, which had relocated there from Langside in 1962. Nearby, Granite House was enjoying the fruits of a year-long exercise in which its store had been modernised. It specialised in furniture and it now devoted some 10,000 square feet of what it termed “a most impressive Exhibition of 1973 Furniture. What a show it is ...”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here