The illustrated city: Glasgow's disappearing independent newsagents

[Nearly Sane]

These are rather lovely.


https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/nov/01/the-illustrated-city-glasgows-disappearing-independent-newsagents?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&fbclid=IwAR2CF_B0mVhMdx_F7QWcYbjhzWz05FTgsSq2ff1LXmokbWbHRX-hPvHdFWg

[Walter]

These are rather lovely.


https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/nov/01/the-illustrated-city-glasgows-disappearing-independent-newsagents?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&fbclid=IwAR2CF_B0mVhMdx_F7QWcYbjhzWz05FTgsSq2ff1LXmokbWbHRX-hPvHdFWg

they certainly are although a bit rose tinted glasses view .

A few years ago I was driving through Glasgow fairly late at night and wanted a bottle of pop .
I happened to see a news agent shop and pulled over .
I was surprised when  the door wouldn't open and a voice said to push now !
When I got inside I found myself in a kind of cage with all the stock and the shop keeper at the other side
I asked for a bottle of pop , the bloke reached for one , opened a chicken wire small door and passed it to me after I'd given him the money .
I bid him good evening and fucked off sharpish
Hmmm , I thought?

[Gordon]

I remember the Byres Road ones well: especially Barretts and News and View, since the latter had cards in the window showing flats to let, and was popular with staff worked at the Western Infirmary just yards away - as were the nearby Aragon and Rubaiyat pubs. I was in and out of Tabak in Hyndland Rd regularly for newspapers and magazines since it was the closest newsagent to our first flat in Partickhill Rd.

Happy days, albeit more than 40 years ago now.