Not often I take pics in gents' toilets, but, with a panel missing, this wee bit of Metro tiling in McChuills caught my eye - tiles that turn 90 degrees! I mind when the gaff first opened, as the Barbizon cafe bar and gallery; the most eastern outpost of the Merchant City.

You're on to plums! A wonderful, if rather fruity pic, from 1921. Looking at the lovely reflections in the window, I think this this is Cooper's magnificent Great Western Road shop, rather than their original HQ, in Howard Street. Pic: Glasgow City Archives

Last orders... The Squirrel Bar, in Stevenson Street, Calton, is pulling down its shutters for good. The site has been licensed since 1857. Pic: The Squirrel, and street drinkers, 1980, by Raymond Depardon

This week's Worsdall Wednesday finds our Frank in Nitshill, to take tea with the redoubtable businesswoman, tearoom entrepreneur, and patron of the arts, Kate Cranston. Pic/text: Frank Worsdall's 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' (1981)

Reading the conclusions of the Grenfell Tower inquiry - a litany of buck-passing, lies, and profits before people - I was reminded of this Steve Bell cartoon. Chillingly, The Towering Inferno was released in 1974; the same year Grenfell welcomed its first residents...

#OTD 62 years ago, Glasgow's tram system shoogled its way into history.

Right, so here's how it works. My 40th school reunion next week, and I'm supposed to say something about the four pals we've lost - three in pic. Don't need to write anything; they walk with me still. The very best of company...

'One ring to rule them all, and in the darkness find them...' Is it just me, or is anyone else worried that they appear to have dug up what looks like the Eye of Sauron? ‘Remarkable’ Pictish ring discovered by volunteer - BBC News

There's cool, then there is Shep cool - riding shotgun with John Noakes into Ealing studios - in John's white Marcos 3 Litre.

South central LA - South central GLA...

Waiting for the bridge to open... Slipway, Water Row, Govan, c. 1910. Pic: Glasgow City Archives