Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with our selection of old Glasgow photographs from 1980 – many of them showing just how much city has changed since then.
Scroll through our photo gallery and prepare to be amazed.

13. Billy Connolly sponsored cycle 1980
Scottish entertainer Billy Connolly leaves Glasgow on a sponsored cycle ride to Inverness in August 1980. Billy with some of the girls from the Ellerman Travel company. Photo: Bill Stout

14. SNP demo 1980
The Scottish National Party hold a demonstration in Glasgow in October 1980. Photo: Brian Stewart

15. Veterans' race in Glasgow 1980
Takeshi Miyatake in the World Veterans' Distance Championships at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, August 1980. Photo: Allan Milligan

16. Western club in Glasgow 1980
Dressed as cowboys and Western characters Dick Gilmour (as Marshall Dillon) 'arrests' Jim Webb (as Billy the Kid) ina Paisley Road West club, Glasgow, November 1980. Photo: Brian Stewart


