Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

[martc]

Nice PC50, my first ever form of motorised transport (not the one in the photo obvs).

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Sauchiehall St, snapped in glorious colour in 1954.

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[5speedracer]

12 hours ago, Muniphobia said:

I give up, what the hell is she doing?

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[artdjones]

3 hours ago, martc said:

Sauchiehall St, snapped in glorious colour in 1954.

I didn't know they had colour in Glasgow in 1954.

[camryv6]

2 hours ago, 5speedracer said:

I give up, what the hell is she doing?

Riding a bike ?

[DavieW]

23 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Riding a bike ?

Without a seat 

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

I didn't know they had colour in Glasgow in 1954.

It was briefly introduced in 1954 before being turned off again by the Wee Frees for being decadent.

Colour was not re-introduced in Glasgow until 1986.

[Lord Sterling]

5 hours ago, martc said:

The Victoria Hotels landlord Jack Askwith photographed outside the pub in 1984 along with his Ford Fiesta. More significant though is where the Fiesta is parked - this parking spot was Jack’s own personal space, and the first resident’s parking permit to be issued by the city of Leeds.

I thought that was Tosh Lines for a second.

[CreepingJesus]

18 minutes ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

It was briefly introduced in 1954 before being turned off again by the Wee Frees for being decadent.

Colour was not re-introduced in Glasgow until 1986.

It's how we knew the Glasgow clubs strips apart - the patterns were different in monochrome. Imagine our surprise when the Tennent's Sevens came live from the SECC in the '86 off season in colour. I well remember my granda recovering from the shock, and going straight to Watt Bros to buy a grey bunnet that had a thin brown thread in the weave. What a radical. My hero.

[artdjones]

22 minutes ago, CreepingJesus said:

It's how we knew the Glasgow clubs strips apart - the patterns were different in monochrome. Imagine our surprise when the Tennent's Sevens came live from the SECC in the '86 off season in colour. I well remember my granda recovering from the shock, and going straight to Watt Bros to buy a grey bunnet that had a thin brown thread in the weave. What a radical. My hero.

Strangely, all joking aside, Glasgow is a place that I've always wanted to visit. In my younger days when you thought of Scottish cities, Glasgow always came first, with Edinburgh definitely second.

[Metal Guru]

5 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Strangely, all joking aside, Glasgow is a place that I've always wanted to visit. In my younger days when you thought of Scottish cities, Glasgow always came first, with Edinburgh definitely second.

Glasgow has one big advantage over Edinburgh. No / (not many )tourists.

[Amelia]

On 06/12/2025 at 18:42, Amelia said:

I'm terrible at PPE 😬

Proof

[EyesWeldedShut]

35 minutes ago, CreepingJesus said:

I well remember my granda recovering from the shock, and going straight to Watt Bros to buy a grey bunnet that had a thin brown thread in the weave. What a radical. My hero.

I only ever knew my Grandad to wear a grey bunnet. Grey overcoat. Brown suit. 
Someplace he had a blue apron (for the funny handshake meetings) but we never, ever got to see that out of the wee case

 

14 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Strangely, all joking aside, Glasgow is a place that I've always wanted to visit. In my younger days when you thought of Scottish cities, Glasgow always came first, with Edinburgh definitely second.

Went up last year - I was last there around 2004. It's cleaner than then but has more decrepit looking buildings here and there. We did a bit of the touristy thing again and enjoyed it (even though the Glasgow School of Art is still cling filmed shut). Arse end of Argyll Street felt a little rough but walked through there a fair few times back to the Hydro and nobody bugged us. 
It's got a fair sprinkling of different things to do - so has Edinburgh but, as @Metal Guru says, the place is absolutely rammed with tourists.
My niece lives equidistant from both cities and always, always chooses Glasgow for socials (she works in both cities though). 
 

[Knotty Ash Towers]

3 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

It was briefly introduced in 1954 before being turned off again by the Wee Frees for being decadent.

Colour was not re-introduced in Glasgow until 1986.

Weren't the Wee Frees the Scottish branch of the John Inman fan club?

[Knotty Ash Towers]

2 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Glasgow has one big advantage over Edinburgh. No / (not many )tourists.

Glasgow depresses the hell out of me. Give me Edinburgh any day of the week, although I am biased because my Grandad and half my Mum's family were from Edinburgh!

[CreepingJesus]

22 minutes ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

Weren't the Wee Frees the Scottish branch of the John Inman fan club?

No, most definitely not. Publicly anyway. Smiling is a punishable offence wi that lot.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, camryv6 said:

Riding a bike ?

It's an ai pic. Poor prompts.

[artdjones]

23 minutes ago, CreepingJesus said:

No, most definitely not. Publicly anyway. Smiling is a punishable offence wi that lot.

They were once a religious cause celebre.

The Free Kirk left the Church of Scotland in 1843. Around the turn of the 20th Century they decided to amalgamate with the United Presbyterian denomination to form the United Free Church. 

The minority that didn't agree with the amalgamation are the Wee Frees, The Free Church of Scotland. They sued the United Free Church, as the United Free Church had changed some doctrines to facilitate amalgamation. They argued that as they hadn't changed doctrine that they were the real Free Kirk, and were entitled to all the Church's property. They won their case in the House of Lords, and became the possessor of far more property than they could use, and the whole mess had to be sorted out by a government commission that made a proportional distribution of the property and funds.

It was the talk of Scotland for most of a decade.

(They split again in 2000 into the Free Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing).)

 

 

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