Joyce and Madelyn presented me with a braw 'Merican watch.

After I had seen Joyce and Madelyn off on the train on the next section of their Scottish tour I called in at the Glasgow South Side festival, being held in Queen's Park where Ann and I had done some of our courting.

Non-trad kilts are not as common in Scotland as tartan kilts. Spotted at the festival, I'd guess from the reverse glengarry pleating that this fellow was wearing a Utilikilt. I never got a chance to speak to him, I wonder if he posts on xmarksthescot.

The Corporation of Glasgow handed over their municipal bus services to a private operator years ago, but they transferred a few buses to the city museum's department which retain the old city transport colours and are brought out for special occasions. This was a type of bus I often travelled on while I was a student at Glasgow University from 1969 to 1973. It was just about to leave the festival to return to its garage in the east end of the city and I hitched a ride.

The bus went along Victoria Road and past the site of the Plaza Ballroom where I first met my wife Ann. The ballroom has been demolished and replaced by this apartment block called The Plaza.

Travelling up Stockwell Street in the city centre inside a corporation bus, haven't done this for many years!

The bus dropped me off outside its depot at Fordneuk Street, in Bridgeton, in the east end of Glasgow, a fitting place to end this photoset as a branch of my father's family lived in Bridgeton where they were employed in the carpet weaving trade.