GLASGOW’S shopping streets have changed dramatically over the last few decades, with a host of big names disappearing from the scene.
Gone are well-known stores such as Woolworths, Dixons, Rumbelows, C&A and What Everyone Wants. Another name that will be remembered by our older readers is Terley’s.
The branch at 125 Argyle Street, pictured above, was one of 36 stores throughout Scotland, as well as some in England, and the shops were popular with women for the vast selection of household textiles sold.
These included tablecloths, pillows, sheets, blankets, settee sets and towels, but the most popular items were fabrics for curtains.
The latest fashion was for brushed nylon curtaining, which were advertised as machine washable, drip-dry and in three designs in gold, tango, turquoise, red and purple. They cost £1 a yard. 
If you wanted the self-colour brushed nylon curtains that were ready to hang then it was £3.95 for a pair with a 54-inch drop.
However, it was not long before it was curtains for Terley’s. In 1980 it was rebranded as Texstyle 
World, but that went into administration in 2008.

Glasgow Times:

Glasgow has a reputation for helping people and that was the case in September 1959 for Jimmy Murphy, from the Gorbals. He had lain for 12 hours with a broken leg in his single-end in Caledonia Road. When he left hospital a few weeks later he thought he was friendless, but hundreds of neighbours turned out to greet him and even gave him a cake. Everybody needs good neighbours...