THE thunder of the presses, newspapers heading along to the despatch area, vans standing by ready to rush all the latest news to the shops, bus stations and railway terminals. That’s the process now and it was just the same back in the 1950s, as this photograph illustrates.
The Evening Times vans, some carrying the advertising for our then sister paper The Bulletin, are seen waiting at the corner of Mitchell Street and Mitchell Lane, where the papers were then based.
It is worth noting that the building was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, while he was working as a junior draughtsman for Honeyman & Kepie. The original building had been completed in 1870, but was extended for storage and shops as well as newspaper offices between 1893 and 1895.
Experts say Mackintosh’s involvement in the design is illustrated by the style of the water tower. The unusual corner tower hides an 8000-gallon water tank.
The lower floors of the building were used as production space where the papers where dispatched from platforms open to the street. The upper storeys  were for the editorial and commercial side of the operation.

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1938: This is the Mann Byars store in Argyle Street, at Virginia Street. The whosesale drapery and warehousing firm creased trading in September 1938. The building was demolished and replaced by Marks & Spencer