Recent additions costing more than £14million have brought Glasgow’s oldest theatre back to looking its best.
But an earlier project to restore some grandeur to Theatre Royal in Hope Street, which was opened in 1867, was carried out in 1990 to mark Glasgow being the host city for the European Year of Culture.
Ornamental plasterers Willie Fox, left, and Dave Wallace were among those involved in the various projects and they are seen carrying a new piece of cornice for the dome .
The duo needed a head for heights because the work was carried out 60ft above the stalls. As you can see, a special platform had to be set up to enable them to work safely on the neoclassical plasterwork.
Their work was later seen by the Duke of Edinburgh when the venue hosted an Inter-national Gala to open the city’s year of celebration.
The theatre renovations included rewiring and the auditorium was restored to the former French Renaissance design. 
Part of the renovations included employing every gilder in Scotland to decorate the auditorium.

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These visitors were able to make use of the balcony at the stand for the Evening Times and our sister paper the Glasgow Herald, as it was then, to see the sights at the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park in 1938.