IF you want to take a step back in time then visiting Glasgow's oldest house, Provand's Lordship, is the perfect place. And if you go then you will meet up with these faces.

For they are what is known as the Tontine heads, a collection of 10 carved figures that were created about 1740. They formed part of the keystone arches of the portico of the Tontine building at Glasgow Cross

The faces are now in the St Nicholas Garden, behind Provand's Lordship in Castle Street, but this picture is of them when they were located above a warehouse for Messrs Fraser Sons & Co at the bottom of Buchanan Street.

Thw warehouse was put up in 1872 by builder Peter Shannan and it had 13 bays.

He had acquired the 10 original Tontine masks and added a further four masks, carved in a similar style by William James Maxwell.

In 1962, they were prised from the wall of Fraser Sons & Co and in the mid-1970s the masks were collected together by the People's Palace Museum.

They were all removed to their present location in St Nicholas Garden in 1994.