Up to 40,000 people lived in the notorious Glasgow slum of the Gorbals in the late 1940s IT WAS the notoriously poor Glasgow slum which was rife with overcrowding and sewage running in the streets.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited (Reach Publishing Services Limited) Gorbals police station is set to shut under ...
Growing up in the Gorbals in the 1960s saw childhood play out against the backdrop of dramatic change in this area of the city. Once a densely populated and notoriously overcrowded area of Glasgow, ...
It was a children's game that would garner headlines around the world and introduce some of the most anti-comics government legislation in the Western world. Hundreds of young children in the Gorbals ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Glasgow Women's Aid began in 1973 with a small group of volunteers and an even smaller flat in the Gorbals. The modest and ...
The ‘Union Corner’ fire has done in an evening what Glasgow Council and its Corporation forerunner have been doing for decades ...
ICONIC high-rise flats in Glasgow ’s Gorbals were demolished in a matter of seconds this morning. A loud bang could be heard across the city at around 10.30am as Norfolk Court was brought down to make ...