IT IS Glasgow Fair weekend – which used to mean, for citydwellers, the factories and offices shut down and the whole place went on holiday.
Nowadays, it is far less strictly adhered to but memories of trips ‘doon the watter’ to Rothesay and Millport, the shows arriving at Glasgow Green, or journeys further afield by bus or by train, live long in memories.
Send us your pictures and stories of what the Glasgow Fair meant to you – email ann.fotheringham@glasgowtimes.co.uk or write to Ann Fotheringham, Glasgow Times, c/o Print Centre, 125 Fullarton Drive, Cambuslang G32 8FG
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Our photos tell the story of the Glasgow Fair through the decades – from the joyful splashing of the magnificent trio Violet Forsyth (right) and her friends Ann McIlhutton and Betty Skinner in July 1959 in the sea at Ayr to the couple relaxing on the beach during the heatwave of 1953.
A couple of years later, a man and his wife were spotted cooling their feet in the sea during the Glasgow Fair Holiday, while Robert Lawson (3 and a half) of Dennistoun, was quick to register his disgust at being left with the bags at Buchanan Street bus station on July 17, 1954. (He was off to Aberdeen with his parents.)
We have lots of photos of Fair holidaymakers waiting patiently at local bus and train stations – like this shot of the Blackpool queue at Dundas Street in July 1977.
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And if you stayed at home, there was always the chance of a shot on the waltzers, like this duo at Glasgow Green in July 1952.
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