Subway Repair Workshop, Govan

 Glasgow Subway repair workshop, Govan

Carnarvon Street, Woodlands

Kingston Bridge 50 years

Plantation Street 1965 and 1975

     Plantation Street 1975 by Hugh Hood                      Plantation Street 1965 by Eric Watt

Bridge Street Underground

1972.  Bridge Street Underground with new high rise flats were being built at Laurieston-Gorbals....Norfolk Court.

Mr J Guisti and the Cat

Hi Hugh

Saw your exhibition in the foyer of 103 Trongate and one image in particular brought back memories. I was a policewoman  on the beat in Anderston from 1975 to 1980 and I used to visit J Guisti for cups of tea - a doss in polis parlance. I cannot for the life of my remember the name of the owner or his elderly mother who sat before an open fire but they were both lovely, lovely people. There was a photograph on the wall  of his father and uncles resplendent with leather aprons and beards outside the original business premises at 328 St Vincent street. He was forced to leave the Dorset Street shop and set up shop in Breadalbane Street with his son and another guy - working by the end of the seventies or cornice repairs for the developing  west end.

But the main reason for boring you with all this is the fact that in your photograph - in the left hand window - extreme lower right corner is a plaster of Paris cat. I bought that cat [pic attached]

along with a section of the Elgin Marbles and a wee bust of Handel for the sum of £22. I remember this sum as it was a whole weeks wages but I loved these items and greatly admired their maker. It has made me think of your other images. - other people will have tatts from Terrys and memories relating to the other images. Photographs can be such a catalyst for memories. Could be a research project!

Have ordered  a copy of the image and it will be placed beside the cat. Thanks for making that image.

Kind regards

Linda [Smith]

Garscube Road

Garscube Road, near Firhill

Photo-Zine Glasgow 1974-78

This photo-zine is now out of print. If interested a few signed copies are available at StreetLevel Works, Glasgow.  Or  The Bridge | 1000 Westerhouse Road | Glasgow G34 9JW

Hillhead Library Streetlevel exhibition

John and Hugh, will be at a reception for the exhibition at Hillhead Library, 2pm on 1st November 

Glasgow 1974-78

Glasgow was a city of ghosts and rubble, its air a miasma of sandstone dust and occluded sunlight. Hugh’s work was local history reframed as National Geographic anthropology… Every totem and trope that made up Glasgow’s visual sense of self was present and correct: the tenements, the cheeky wee boys, the Gorbals back courts, the cranes on the river… Yet the work had to it no civic dimension, it contained nothing that was cherishably Glaswegian, nothing quaint or beguiling: just frank and unblinking assessments of a vanquished city, nursing its shattered jawlines, awaiting the deliverance of some far-distant modern day.”
[© Allan Brown, 2013, for Document Scotland]

A3 prints are available to purchase here Hugh Hood

M8 Motorway

Looking towards Cowcaddens

Govan Subway Repair Workshop

Another trawl through the archive

Red Road 3

Children playing outside Red Road Flats, Glasgow 1974

Anderston Walkway

Port Dundas, Eagle Street

Big Jimmy and the Cat

Gibson St, Backcourt

Terry's Tattoo

Gerry's Snack Bar

Gerry's Snack Bar

I came across Gerry's Snack Bar in Clydebank. Although it was closed at the time I took the photograph, I believe it was in open from early morning until after lunch to serve the workers from the yards nearby. The Browns ship yards can be seen in the background, but I'm not sure what street the van was in. I would be grateful to hear from anyone who can remember more about this caravan.

Glasgow Barras

Tony at Fairfield's Govan