The housing blocks of Glasgow's Gorbals estate sprang up in the 1840s to provide accommodation for the city's expanding population of industrial workers, as thousands flocked to Scotland to work ...

In the 1960s, the Gorbals area of Glasgow underwent a dramatic transformation ... The design failed to create the sense of community that the old tenements, despite their flaws, had supported.

Children of the Gorbals. The old and the new - Gorbals Cross Glasgow is demolished as the high-rise flats go up in the background in December 1975. Demolishing houses and burning rubbish in the ...

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.

A visit to St John's parish in the Gorbals, known as the most Irish parish in Glasgow. There are half a million people ... their neighbours and the sense of camaraderie that was in the old Gorbals is ...

Located a short walk from Glasgow city centre on the south bank ... While much of the resulting housing was of poor quality, parts of the old Gorbals were considered fashionable.

On a building site, at the south-east corner of the Gorbals, next to one of the busiest crossroads in Glasgow ... During the 1950s the old tenement blocks, built about a hundred years previously ...

But “brutal Gorbals estates” is a misnomer. The working-class Glasgow Clydeside — romanticised in retrospect, to be sure — had a community ethos that was destroyed along with the Gorbals ...

Two tower blocks in the Gorbals area of Glasgow have been demolished, one after the other, in controlled explosions. The Sandiefield Road blocks stood 69m tall and contained almost 400 flats.