Saturday 29th May: Bookhunt!

[DMcNay]

Starting at the Botanic Gardens Book Fair at about eleven, and then wandering to find other bookshops and whatever takes our fancy.

Who's up for it?

Meet by the Police Box. At the Botanic Gardens. Meeting at the Police Box on Buchanan Street would just be daft...

[Osiris]

I really fancy coming along, unfortunately i'm off camping this weekend at a VW festival in sunny Biggar.

Happy book hunting though.

Cheers, J

[aliferste]

Seeing as how i missed the last one I would love to.......but im working all weekend !

[DMcNay]

It's a pity no-one else was able to join us for this merry jaunt. You missed out on picking up some of this haul:



All for less than thirty quid.....

[nodrog]

Not a bad haul!

I was there this lunchtime and got this little beauty:

Kelly's Directory of Glasgow 1951

it's like a combined phone book and yellow pages, but with the very exciting extra feature of being able to look up places knowing only the street name - any street - and it will tell you what businesses or people were at any given number on that street in 1951.

The period adverts are fascinating, and i've discovered that where my flat was later built was a company selling licensed spirits called Maclachlans!

If anyone wants to know who or what was at their address in Glasgow in 1951, let know know...

[DMcNay]

Not a bad haul!

I was there this lunchtime and got this little beauty:

Kelly's Directory of Glasgow 1951

it's like a combined phone book and yellow pages, but with the very exciting extra feature of being able to look up places knowing only the street name - any street - and it will tell you what businesses or people were at any given number on that street in 1951.

The period adverts are fascinating, and i've discovered that where my flat was later built was a company selling licensed spirits called Maclachlans!

If anyone wants to know who or what was at their address in Glasgow in 1951, let know know...

Fossil was lookign at that about an hour earlier! I think you can find most of them in the Mitchell Library. There's also a few available on CD-roms from about the turn of the last century.

[nodrog]

Yeah he was telling me that today!

But on having them in the mitchell isnt as fun as having it my living room...

[Fossil]

Start posting the old adverts please

-Fossil-

[nodrog]

Start posting the old adverts please

-Fossil-

patience patience!

need to wait until i'm in work on tuesday and have a scanner to do them properly!

[nodrog]

Oh, all right then.

Here's a sneak preview:

[onyirtodd]

From the Citizen Housewives' Guide - provided by the Evening Citizen for members of its Housewives' Club.

Not dated but sometime late 50s/ early 60s (?)

[Vinegar Tom]

Start posting the old adverts please

-Fossil- 2004

I managed to get around to a scan from the Kelly's Directory from 1948. Some of the small adds are fantastic with hangovers from the art deco era in the lettering / artwork etc.

Not this one though. Vermin control.