In his introduction to the book, John recounts how his interest in Glasgow, especially its transport and industries, grew through his schooldays and then his university days and then continued to eventually become a cornerstone of his life as he became Scotland’s pre-eminent industrial historian, and maybe even more importantly, recorder of that industry in decay and loss through his camera lens. Now long retired, but still industrious himself, he continues to write and publish, drawing on his vast archive of photographs. This book is a collection of his photos of Glasgow with love, sometimes evocative, as on the front cover, but often of forlorn, decrepit, or half-demolished buildings, once glorious but now showing warts and all. John’s Glasgow of these decades could be scruffy and long uncared-for or well-kept, like the Glasgow Underground Govan Depot or the Glenlee moored at Yorkhill Quay. |
