Does any one know what the big modern out of place building is or was?
I think it was the Royal Stuart Hotel it must have been the only modern hotel in Glasgow at the time until they built the Holiday Inn latterly the Marriot on Argyle Street. I used to think it was well plush when I was a nipper but apparently it's a bit of a cheap dive nowadays.
Yes, that was the Royal Stuart Hotel, but it was the recently-demolished Albany Hotel on Bothwell Street which was regarded as Glasgow's first truly 'modern' hotel when it opened for business in 1973.
The building with the Coulson's Beer sign, which housed the Vintners' pub, is now gone and a block of flats has been shoe-horned onto the site. Of course, Paisleys has been replaced with the Jury's Inn hotel, ironically across the road from the former Royal Stuart Hotel, and there's the threat of another hotel appearing on the site of the old Job Centre.
If anyone knows exactly when the Royal Stuart Hotel opened for business it would be possible to date this photo pretty accurately, as the remaining scaffolding suggests it was nearing completion.
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Is it the EuroHostel (used to be Clyde Hall and a hotel before that)?
I've just noticed summat about it - one-way traffic.
