THIS IS the incredible story of a photograph, which reconnected two strangers, after four decades.

Jos Treen, who took pictures of the city's streets and residents in the late 1970s, had started to upload his old works to social media, where they received a lot of attention.

Glasgow Times:

One woman who was especially interested was Angela Mackinnon – because she spotted herself in one of the pictures.

"As soon as I saw it, I knew it was me,” she said. “I knew it was Chancellor Street, even though there was no indication. So, I took a screenshot of it.

"This was maybe a couple of years ago, and I just kept it.

"About a year and a half ago, I decided to join Twitter and I used that screenshot as a cover picture.

"After a while, I started following Jos and last week, I noticed that he was following me too. That was when I decided to contact him to make sure he didn’t mind me using his picture."

Angela reached out to the 66-year-old documentarian and after all this time, the lives of two strangers crossed paths again.

Angela and Jos did not know each other when the picture was taken, they did not even speak to each other, but miraculously, they both remember when the shutter went off.

She added: "Every Saturday, we would go to my gran's and my mum's friend's house, who stayed on Chancellor Street. That day, believe it or not, I actually remember the bricks that were on the street.

"My mum's friend stayed on the other side of the street, but I used to always walk down there.

"The bag, that's in the photograph -  I am positive it is my mum's. I think she left it at my gran's and sent me along to get it."

Meanwhile, Jos, who stayed in Glasgow at the time, started street photography after becoming unemployed in late 1977.

He said: "I spent a lot of time in Hillhead library, looking at photobooks and newspapers and then I decided in 1978 that I would take my camera out and wander around and take pictures.

"I did this weekly, maybe once or twice a week throughout 1978. Some of the pictures I can remember taking, some of them I cannot, but I can remember taking this one.

"It's just one of these little moments, you look down on the camera, you go 'click' and then you move on."

The pair still have never met in person, but their history will have connected them in a unique way.

He added: "When Angela reached out to me and said she was using my picture on Twitter, I think she thought I was going to be annoyed about it because as the photographer, I hold the copyright.

"Whereas in my view, I thought the opposite - that it was great and I told her to use the picture.

"Then, she told me how she remembered being on that street.”

He smiled: “So, after 40 years, I can put a name to this wee girl in my picture."

Angela said: "He was very warm and kind, straight away he said he would send me a print of the picture. He seems like a lovely man."

Jos travels to Glasgow frequently from Manchester, where he now lives, and recently had an exhibition at Maryhill Burgh Halls.

Next time he is in the city, they both said, perhaps they will recreate the image.

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