FROM THE ARCHIVES

25 YEARS AGO Lewis’s Group Ltd, one of the companies in the Lewis’s shop chain with 11 department stores, including one in Glasgow’s Argyle Street, was compulsorily wound up in the High Court in London yesterday. The company, originally founded by Mr David Lewis in Liverpool in 1856, has been in receivership since February. The receiver, Grant Thornton, said they were still looking for a buyer for the Argyle Street store. 50 YEARS AGO Veterans of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin led celebration parades through Dublin, Belfast, and London yesterday. More than 5,000 people took part in the public and military parades in Dublin, including nearly 900 survivors. The latter were given places of honour on a platform erected in front of the head post office, the centre of the 1916 rising. Across the border in Belfast nearly 2000 people marched behind the Irish tricolour-normally banned in Northern Ireland-to the Republican plot in Milltown Cemetery. 100 YEARS AGO The proclamation calling up single men in the first group under the Derby scheme and in the first class under the Military Service Act was received yesterday in Glasgow. It gives the usual month’s notice to the men concerned-namely, those of 18 years of age who attested, and those who were born in 1897 but prior to August 15 of that year who failed to attest and who now come under the Military Service Act. 150 YEARS AGO Three workmen in the employment of Messrs. Smith & McFarlane, of Glasgow, who are at present engaged on the Argyll Arms Hotel, Inveraray, went in to bathe in Loch Fyne on Sunday afternoon, in the neighbourhood of Dunderaw Castle, when one of them suddenly sank, and before his body could be recovered life was extinct. Deceased was a native of Montrose, named Charles Fisher.