yeah great post mate! a much needed injection of ...well ...something interesting!!
Here's a set I put together for another forum, there will be a couple of repeats but i gots to keep da flow...
1828 Interestingly the Scott monument was added to this image later as i have its earlier counterpart without it! Originally it was intended to have a monument to George III after whom the Square is named.
1868 Note the George Hotel on the present site of the City Chambers
1885 The laying of the foundation stone of the City Chambers
1890 (same view as 1868)
1897 View west of the Merchants House
1910
1937
1948
1950
1953
A Sunday morning in 1955 ...wouldnt it be lovely!
1957 The X-Ray pavillion, for all your tubercolosian needs
1962 note the old tourist information pavillion between Victoria and Albert
1966 The simple Georgian lines of Ernst & Youngs predecessor
1968
1975
then not much happens until the past few years and then...
(arrow isnt mine)
...the whole-sale bastardisation of what has to be THE most used
public park in Scotland if not the UK, and Glasgows own little agora.