EVERY week in Times Past, we take a walk down memory lane to celebrate the stars who have visited our city over the decades.

Our recent features on everyone from Hollywood legend of the 1950s, George Raft, to home-grown superstar Johnny Beattie and pop sensation David Cassidy, have sparked a few fond recollections for readers.

Here are just a few of their tales – we’d love to feature yours too. Which famous faces have you spotted in the city? Who have you seen in concert, or in theatre? Get in touch with your stories and photos.

Alec Macleod Ross wrote to us to tell his memories of his favourite comedian, the late great Johnny Beattie, who died earlier this year.

“My wife and I have been fans of the great man for years and it will be 60 years next year when we saw him at the Pavilion after our wedding reception,” he told us.

“We are both from Glasgow but have lived in Lockerbie for the past 25 years. We can remember when he played a statue in George Square, standing on a plinth complete with pigeon droppings on his face, passing comments on the couple of lovers sitting on the bench below him – this was around the time of the American sailors being in Glasgow.

“I still miss the Glasgow humour.”

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Our story about Connell’s, the upmarket tailor on Union Street prompted this memory from Allan Porter in Shawlands, who was reminded of bumping into one of the famous Hollywood stars who frequented the menswear store.

“I was 17 years old in June 1952 and I lived at 65 Tantallon Road in Shawlands,” he says. “The owners of Connells lived in a house bordering ours on Dirleton Avenue, as it was known then.

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“My uncle Donald and I were walking our dog when two men got out of a car outside the Connells’ house. One of the men said hello, and the other was George Raft. When I told my pals this, most thought I was mistaken – but it was a fact.”

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Our recent feature on teen heartthrob of the 60s and 70s David Cassidy and his gig at Shawfield in Glasgow in 1974 prompted superfan Gwen Mitchell to get in touch.

“I was one of the lucky fans to get a ticket,” she writes. “I lived in West Lothian then, and we got the bus through in the early morning. We queued all round, singing, playing cards.. Poor Showaddywaddy, the support, were brilliant, but we booed them, as all we wanted was David.”

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Gwen remembers the deafening screams of fans, and girls fainting and being carried out of the crowd.

“I am 63 this year, but it all seems like yesterday,” she says. “I was sweet 16 then, with all those pictures on my walls. I was one very happy fan.”

Gwen stayed at her friend’s gran’s house in Shettleston that night.

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“I hardly slept, I was still on cloud nine,” she says. “We stayed up to watch the late news because he was on it.

“I saw David again in October 1985, at the Edinburgh Playhouse. I used to have lots of scrapbooks dedicated to him, but my sister binned them all many years ago. I am JUST about talking to her now…”