WHEN you look at a picture from the past it can sometimes be easy to pick the decade it was taken and the tram tracks and the cars in this photograph have all the classic hallmarks of the 1950s.
The prominent building is easily recognisable as the Theatre Royal, at the top of Hope Street. But if you were to stand and take a picture from the same spot today there would be plenty of sky in the background because that Equitable Loan building at the end of the road has long since been demolished.
The Theatre Royal has also been updated, with a new entrance being created at
a cost of some £15million.
The theatre opened its doors in November 1867 as Bayliss’s Royal Colosseum Theatre and Opera House and Sir Harry Lauder first sang I Love A Lassie there during a panto
in 1905.
Now the venue is the home to Scottish Opera but it also hosts a wide variety of shows, from music to plays.
Many hands make light work is the motto for this scene as some of Scotland’s rotary club presidents work in September 1987 to prepare a plot for the organisation at the 1988 Glasgow Garden festival
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