This stretch of Pollokshaws Road on Glasgow’s South Side hasn’t changed much since this picture was taken back in 1917.
Sure, the ornate cast-iron tram shelter has long gone, and the mighty St Andrew’s Printworks no longer belches ink-scented smoke and steam across the city.
However, the gushet tenement of St Andrew’s Cross – better known as Eglinton Toll – still sails on today like a mighty red sandstone ship, with its prow facing up Victoria Road.
Generations of dancers from the Plaza Ballroom, across the road on the right, used the tram stop as a meeting place.
The Star Bar, which formed the ground floor of the tenement, was once the regular haunt of country and western star Ken Manners, and for years a wooden guitar advertising his regular appearances hung outside the hostelry.
Ken later retired to run his own hotel way out west … in ‘the badlands’ of Ayr.
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