It's incredible to think this was now 40 years ago😮
As 2023 kicks off, we're going back 40 years to see what the people and places of Glasgow were up to and how things have changed.
While those who were around at the time will tell you Glasgow in the early '80s was at at a bit of a turning point, and wasn't quite the tourist hot spot it is today, it definitely wasn't all doom and gloom.In April 1983, the country saw widespread demonstrations with a mass 'die-in' against nuclear weapons. Four minutes before noon on April 2, sirens rang through George Square in downtown Glasgow in a mock nuclear attack warning.
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