The junction of Great Western Road and Byres Road was a whole lot quieter in 1905 than it is today.
Any elegant ladies who decided to cross here in the 21st century would be taking their lives in their hands. And as for perambulating your bairn across the busy junction, well!
Back then, before the traffic grew to a thunderous roar, the cobbled thoroughfare was an elegant boulevard, complete with trams and Parisian-style ornate, cast-iron lamp standards running up the middle.
The building on the right, with the Russian-style onion domes, is the old Botanic Gardens railway station. The station closed in 1939 and later housed a popular cafe called 'The Silver Slipper', a nightclub called 'Sgt. Peppers' and a plumbers shop, 'Morton's'. It was destroyed by fire on the night of 22 March 1970.
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