CANDLERIGGS in Glasgow is famous for markets, with a fruit market housed at the corner of Candleriggs and Bell Street for many years until it moved in 1998.
But this books stall at Candleriggs market in 1981 is feeding the mind rather than the belly with hardbacks for sale at discount prices.
The headscarf and haircuts may date the image, but some of the names on the covers are still to be found in bookshops today. Frederick Forstyth’s Dogs of War was first
published in 1974 but is still easily found today, while the subjects of other books, such as recipes or wine and beer making, are as popular as ever, if not more so.
The price tags on the shelves are more revealing of how has shopping has changed over
the years.
These books are for sale for £3.95 and £1.75, cheap for hardbacks today.
As for Mr Forsyth’s novel about mercenaries at war, that can be bought online from 67p today. Who says prices always go up?
The Queen Mother said patients’ happiness depended mostly on nurses when she opened Europe’s most modern maternity unit, The Queen Mother’s Hospital at Yorkhill in Glasgow, in September 1964
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