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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Herald had an interesting choice of phrase for the old, overcrowded Gorbals: “The Queen and the Duke had visited the cancer at the heart of Glasgow and seen what is being done to remedy it”.

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.

GLASGOW is still a city of tenements. It is this which makes it look so different from cities in England, for the English never evolved this urbane and sensible form of domestic architecture. At ...

The 26-year-old is in a critical condition after being seriously assaulted in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. He arrived injured at Gorbals police office in Cumberland Street at about 03:40 on ...

A 27-year-old man is in a stable condition in hospital after being stabbed in a "random" attack in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Police said the man and three friends left a pub just after midnight ...

Police have released CCTV images of a man they want to trace over a "violent attack" in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. A 20-year-old man was with a male friend in Old Rutherglen Road when another ...

A woman has been left with serious injuries after reportedly being attacked in a flat in Glasgow ... in the Gorbals area of the city around 8pm on Saturday September 8. The 23-year-old was ...