Archive images show changing face of Glasgow’s Argyle Street down the decades

Argyle Street, one of the city’s principle shopping thoroughfares, has thankfully escaped the more controversial changes and has retained much of its vital character that other areas of the city centre lost long ago.

From the era of corporation tramcars and Lewis’s department store right up to modern times, we’ve had a rummage through the archives at The Scotsman to bring you 19 photos showing how Argyle Street has transformed down the decades.

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