Glasgow by Tram in Photographs

Perhaps best known for his extensive body of work on industrial archaeology in this book John Hume shares the photographs he took himself of Glasgow trams at the time that the network of routes was contracting. From the mid-1950s John used both trams and his bicycle to explore the network and began photographing the trams. Time was short as only 18 months later the Last Tram Procession took place. The author sees this as the harbinger of great swathes of the city being flattened and communities lost with their population displaced to 'multi-storey fling cabinet blocks' and a general de-humanisation of the city, with the loss of the tram as symbolic of what is fundamentally wrong with society. He asks not that you look at this collection with nostalgia but as a model for how the city of Glasgow should be. You '11 need to buy the book to understand John's points properly but as he says in the introduction, 'you will see in my photographs what I mean'.