THIS looks like a nice quiet corner of Glasgow, yet it is actually one of the city centre’s busy junctions, although you will be forgiven for not recognising it from this picture.
This is the corner of George Street and Montrose Street, with the latter being one of the steepest streets in the city.
The house and business at the corner has long since gone, along with what was
the Montrose Street United Presbyterian Church. They have been replaced by
a multi-storey car park.
Interestingly, the house on the corner has a newspaper connection because it was the home of Samuel Hunter, the real founder of the Glasgow Herald as a prosperous commercial undertaking.
He was born in 1769 and attended classes in Glasgow University, being destined for the medical profession.
At the close of the century he served in Ireland as surgeon, but in the beginning of 1803 he became a proprietor, and at the same time editor, of the Herald and Advertiser, sister paper of the Evening Times. He held the post until 1837.
He also sat on Glasgow town council.
The summer of 1976 was one that brought us lots of sunshine and these youngsters made the most
of it as they showed off their skills with hooplas in the playground of Adelphi School in the Gorbals
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