HAPPY memories were sparked when an Evening Times vendor spotted an old photo of himself.

Ray McCurdy, who has the spot outside Marks and Spencer on Sauchiehall Street, and began working for the Evening Times in 2003 was taken by surprise to discover a picture of himself in the 2014 calendar.

The picture, for the month of August, shows children playing in a fountain in Kelvingrove Park during a sunny day in the 1950's.

Mr McCurdy said he had seen the picture a couple of years ago when the paper ran it in an article.

He said: "I remember being there and being in the fountain, I had a weird feeling when I saw it in the normal paper, and then when I saw it in the calendar I thought I recognised my dad sitting on the bench.

"Then I saw myself in the striped t-shirt.

"The wee kids in the fountain weren't my friends, they were just other children."

He lived near the park from 1954 until 1957.

He said: "I spent four years of my life there, it's always been a special place to me."

The images were retrieved from the Evening Times archive at the Mitchell Library.

The 2015 calendar will feature images of circus elephants walking through the Gorbals in 1952, a scene of the Glasgow Underground, sunbathers in George Square and a war-time Anderson shelter.

The front cover will be a photo of Glasgow fair holidaymakers enjoying their time at Tighnabruaich Pier against a backdrop of the excursion steamer, TS King Edward.

The 2015 edition is now on sale for £6 per calendar and can be bought on the Evening Times website or ordered from the reception of the offices on Renfield Street.

It is published in support of the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice whose Brick by Brick Appeal hopes to raise funds to build a £15 million facility in Bellahouston Park.

Half of all profits from the 2015 calendar will go to the appeal.