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Cashing in the Empties. Malcolm R Hill. Pic: Glasgow Museums CHILDREN at the window of an empty tenement; cashing in the empties on Acadia Street; shop assistants in a grain store, smiling for the camera… This is Glasgow in the 1970s, a time when ordinary Glaswegians went about their daily life as their city changed around them. These fantastic photographs are the work of Partick Camera Club’s 1970s Photographic Surveys, held now in Glasgow Museums’ collection. They were turned into a book in 2011, called 1970s Glasgow: Through the Lens, a fascinating snapshot of the city at a time when it was rapidly evolving.
WHO remembers the scramble? Horses and carts on Glasgow streets? Surf washing powder and Dandy Tea? These photographs take us back to Glasgow, 1955, when the summer was so hot, there were reports of melting tarmac. These images of Glasgow have been recorded not just in official statistics or in people’s memories, but in a remarkable photographic survey carried out by the city’s camera clubs and now part of Glasgow Museums’ collection. The idea for a citywide photographic survey began as a discussion after one of Partick Camera Club’s weekly meetings. Under the leadership of Adam Stevens, Partick Camera Club’s energetic president, it soon blossomed into a full-scale project involving ten of Glasgow’s camera clubs with 86 amateur photographers, and resulted in 600 photographic prints that record all aspects of Glasgow life.