A priceless piece of amateur footage showing Glasgow in the 1930s has recently been made available to view online.
The vintage film has been painstakingly restored and digitised by moving image archivists at the National Library of Scotland (NLS).
Captured around 1935, it features fascinating shots of Glasgow Cross, market shoppers and a car trip down the Firth of Clyde.
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A member of the public donated the footage to the NLS, which has been busy updating its online archive with a host of other new films, including a reel showing Scots writer Hugh McDiarmid celebrating his 86th birthday just weeks before his death in 1978.
While it lacks audio, the two-minute-long Glasgow clip, which was filmed by a John R. Gibb, offers us a unique glimpse city life as it was almost 90 years ago.
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It begins with a few short shots of an unidentified marketplace, possibly the Barras or Paddy's Market, where groups of adults, children and Lascar sailors can be seen milling around.
Glasgow Cross and the Trongate are two landmarks which remain instantly recognisable, though people's fashions, the shops, and vehicle traffic on the roads have changed considerably. In the film, double-decker tramcars vie for space alongside a steadily increasing number of vans and motorcars.
At the Mercat Cross, we can see groups of local women selling items from fruit barrows on the street. One long-standing stallholder is holding an "anniversary sale", though it's hard to work out the exact prices displayed due to the grainy quality of the footage.
The 1935 film then shows us scenes along the Clyde coast, with shots of steamers, yachts and cars as well as local scenery. It concludes with images of crowds along the road in Dunoon, with the pier showing in the background.
You can watch the full clip of Glasgow c1935 here.
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