In 2010, I undertook my first serious documentary project, at a point when Glasgow was gearing up to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

This was billed as a celebration of all the things Glasgow, and wider Scotland, wanted to present to the world. It was also welcomed as an opportunity to attract investment and regeneration to the East End of the city in particular. However, there is always a chance that such a program risks having an adverse effect on the community being regenerated.

“A Celebration” focused on the shopkeepers and workers in Dalmarnock and the surrounding area who faced the very real possibility that their businesses, built up in some cases over decades, would be swept away by progress.

This year, the 10th anniversary of the Glasgow games, I went back to the area to see what had survived.

I found a neighbourhood cosmetically much changed, by the housing which had been constructed for the athletes’ village, and by a much improved provision of green spaces, but one in which the underlying community had proven resilient. Certainly some of the demographics had changed, and there were different businesses in most of the shops, but the overall feeling was still one of a village within the city, tightly bound and proud.

And even though there were many different faces, I was delighted to find some only changed by age…

It was great to walk into Betty’s Pie Shop, 14 years after my last visit, and have Billy (above) recognise me. Betty was Billy’s mother, and she opened the shop over 50 years ago. A Dalmarnock institution!

This project, both the original and updated images, will be exhibited next year… Further details to follow.