Why I'm exploring Glasgow with a 1930s guidebook | Glasgow holidays
Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 01.32 EDT Glasgow is haunted by itself. Unlike Edinburgh, whose every steeple and gable makes the past feel part of the present, Glasgow is its own ghost. In this city, which looks much more new than the capital, history is glimpsed from the corner of the eye; it is a shiver on a late-autumn night as darkness falls on Duke Street and the brewery smell fills the air. Glaswegians are chronic nostalgists. We have a pretty straightforward relationship with the past: we just want to live there. All of which is why I am standing in the Necropolis, the cityâs gre...