It's 1961, and we're looking north east across Townhead, the Cathedral, the Royal Infirmary, and the Monkland Canal to Royston. You can even see the old St Roch's Secondary School. And you can certainly understand why the M8's engineers decided to 'borrow' the level line of the canal to lay out their new motorway.The skeletal frame you see, bottom left, is the first sighting of Strathclyde University's Andersonian Library.With the coming of the motorway, and the Townhead Interchange, this area was about to change beyond all recognition. -- noreferrer">Shipping page for information about our available services. If you are interested in purchasing one of our products but live outside of the UK please get in touch. -- The Herald Picture Store is proud to present these images in their actual condition. We haven't manipulated these photographs and are proud of their character. Please be aware that due to their age some images may show imperfections. This is as a result of the technology available at the time they were captured and/or scanned and saved for our records.
