End of an Era

Paddy's Market, one of Scotland's best known markets has closed today, after operating for nearly 200 years.

This will be one of the final pictures as there was very little left this afternoon when I took the photograph. Those who were left were packing up.

Paddy's Market in Glasgow has seen generations of families running stalls underneath the railway arches, selling anything from shoes to cookers. At its height, there were more than 1500 street traders selling goods,

The market in Shipbank Lane was named after the 19th century Irish immigrants who used it and became an institution.

In the 1850s, it was moved to make way for the St Enoch railway viaduct and it moved several times before settling in 1935.

The market was popular for many years with poor Glasgow families, who could only afford to buy clothes and furniture from the second-hand dealers.