From the archives

25 YEARS AGO

Management of the Glasgow Garden Festival look set to change their marketing strategy to encourage more people to attend in the evenings. The move follows representations from some of the big traders in the festival’s “High Street” who are concerned at the run down of business between 4.30pm and 8.30pm. The festival organisers hinted yesterday that, with the school holidays and the long, hot, summer nights now imminent, they have plans to improve the evening schedules.

50 YEARS AGO

Skittle players would hardly recognise their old sport. The Hampden Bowl which plays itself in on Thursday as the first 10-pin bowling centre in Glasgow, is a large, luxurious £400,000 affair with 32 lanes and all the transatlantic trimmings; streamlined orange and grey machines to do everything but bowl for you, a press-button for getting in touch with the control man, a photo-electric cell to sound the warning if a player oversteps the foul line, a built-in pencil sharpener on each machine, and a stream of cold air for cooling and drying your hands.

100 YEARS AGO

At Hoylake yesterday J.H. Taylor captured the Golf Championship for the fifth time, thereby equalling the record of Braid and Vardon, almost exactly 20 years after his first success.

150 YEARS AGO

Rothesay – Pocketpicking – Yesterday afternoon, a lady had her pocket picked of a purse containing five pound notes, in the steamer Sultan, before she reached Dunoon on her downward passage. Angus Macalpine, of the Rothesay police, happening to be on board, apprised Sergeant Fraser at Dunoon of the occurrence, who came on to Rothesay, when two men and two women, upon whom suspicion had fallen, were conveyed to the Police Office here and searched.