Old photos of one of our most famous city streets show Glasgow through the ages, with Great Western Road once being heralded as the ‘most noble entry to any city in Europe’.
Running from St George's Cross near the city centre to Anniesland Cross, the street morphs into the A82 trunk road running all the way to Inverness via Fort William.
Established by an Act of Parliament in 1836, during a moment of real transformation and change for Glasgow's west end, the road was originally constructed to be just three miles long.
A time in the Victorian era when open fields and country dwellings began to gave way to elegant townhouses and terraces such as Alexander "Greek" Thomson's Great Western Terrace, as the city's wealthy citizens sought to remove themselves from the overcrowded and polluted city centre.
Not forgetting the jewel in the crown of the area that is the Botanic Gardens.
And with concerns that the road would lose its prominence in the post-war era via plans to upgrade it upgrade it to an expressway, it brought the impassioned response from MP Tam Galbraith in Parliament, the man who then described it as "about the most noble entry to any city in Europe".
