DID you know The Beatles played in Anderston in 1963?
, originally known as the Victoria Music Hall, then the Tivoli Variety Theatre. It opened in 1899 and became a full cinema in 1935.
In the 1960s, a comprehensive redevelopment plan demolished much of Anderston to make way for the inner ring road, to the dismay of many.“When it is completed,” our sister newspaper, then called The Glasgow Herald, said, “it will be a new town within the city, with its local shops as well as its department stores and supermarkets, and its local public houses, as well as a huge hotel.”
It was designed by James Salmon and his partner John Gaff Gillespie, and built in 1899. (James Salmon also designed Glasgow has a number of Billy Connolly murals, but this one is a little bit different. Installed on a gable end at the bottom of Little Street in Anderston, it measures around six metres by four metres and was created using 1.5 miles of steel rods.
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