Stenlake Publishing - Glasow in the 1960s and 1970s <i>in photographs by John R. Hume</i>
Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s in photographs by John R. Hume
Author : John R Hume ISBN : 9781840339994 Cover : paperback Price : £12.95
In his introduction to the book, John recounts how his interest in Glasgow, especially its transport and industries, grew through his schooldays and then his university days and then continued to eventually become a cornerstone of his life as he became Scotland’s pre-eminent industrial historian, and maybe even more importantly, recorder of that industry in decay and loss through his camera lens. Now long retired, but still industrious himself, he continues to write and publish, drawing on his vast archive of photographs. This book is a collection of his photos of Glasgow with love, sometimes evocative, as on the front cover, but often of forlorn, decrepit, or half-demolished buildings, once glorious but now showing warts and all. John’s Glasgow of these decades could be scruffy and long uncared-for or well-kept, like the Glasgow Underground Govan Depot or the Glenlee moored at Yorkhill Quay. Highlights for me include the maintenance train at the Cut of Junction in Townhead, the Erskine on the Renfrew Ferry service and an Andrew Barclay locomotive being loaded at King George V Dock.
48 pages, 53 colour and black & white illustrations
Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s in photographs by John R. Hume
