CASTLEBANK Street, in Partick, had certainly seen better days when this picture was taken in 1950s.

Once the site of the Bishop of Glasgow's summer home, Partick Castle, by the 1950s, and littered with burned out cars, it looked more like a bombsite.

First built in the 1100s, the castle was then rebuilt in 1611. It was finally demolished in 1837. It was from there, during the Reformation, that Bishop James Beaton II fled to France, taking with him all the gold and sacred relics from Glasgow Cathedral.

Although these wrecks could never be classed as holy relics, they did provide an exciting, if dangerous playground for the local kids, who could live out all their gangster and cops and robbers fantasies in the battered old jalopies.