TO A remarkably accurate degree of prophecy, this 1968 photograph from Calderpark Zoo not only presents an uncanny likeness to the opening scene of Disney’s The Lion King but even manages to feature a cub named Simba as its star – 32 years before the film’s release, how’s that for the circle of life!
IT’S hard to imagine that Glasgow has ever looked more like a model railway set than it does in this bird's-eye photograph of 1932. Captured from the long-since demolished tower of the Sailors’ Home, the scene depicts a lost vision of Broomielaw, brimming with paddle steamers (each set to take locals ‘doon the watter’ for seaside jaunts) but here docking just two.
WEARING a bright green cagoule and swooping in and out of residential gardens, Dr Paul Baker is as familiar a sight to the residents of Partick’s Peel Street as the house sparrows that he, and fellow researcher Dr Ross MacLeod, capture, measure and tag for the RSPB.
