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Astonishing photos of old Glasgow.

What's shocking is how much it looks the same today!

I wish it did. The greenery around the square looks much better than the red tarmac they have now.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called elegance in art, graphics and design, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

sometime in 2013 George square is going to get a revamp and all the statues you see here are all getting taken away.

Bedford tractor unit, forget the serial mark; Dinky toys used the same thing for their articulated car transporter model. Wonderful series of the land of bikkies, thanks you so much

The advent of World War II in September 1939 prompted the government to proceed with the project, as wireless communication with the civilian population was an important aid to the war effort. The design of the transmission station fell to Alf Howard and Vernon Kenna. Kenna was the divisional engineer for the Commonwealth’s Post Master General’s (PMG) Department’s broadcast construction section. Construction of a transmitter building and its adjoining wireless mast commenced in late 1941. The mast was 76 meters in height. Bald Hills was seen as a strategic location for a transmission station, because its inland location plus the horizon, as seen from the ocean, would be considerably lower. In February 1942, the Bald Hills wireless station became operational after a 10 kW water-cooled, the short-wave transmitter was installed in the station building. To reduce the threat of a bombing raid, the smaller 4QR (also a medium wave station) transmitter (2 kW) in the Brisbane CBD was shut down and replaced by a homemade transmitter established behind Fischle’s jam factory in Roghan Road. This was a temporary stopgap measure undertaken until the move to Bald Hills was completed. The 4QR main transmitter was then removed and re-erected to the Bald Hills wireless station, where it was connected to a new mast. The station’s aerial array had been emplaced in the northwest corner of the former farm’s grounds. But fear of the station being a potential Japanese air raid target prompted many Bald Hill residents to express their concerns about the station’s location. In particular, the aerial mast was not camouflaged, standing in the middle of a cleared field and so it was easy to spot from the air. Experience learned from the 1940 Battle of Britain had shown these transmitter aerials were prime enemy bombing targets. Source: heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage-places/219