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The Gorbals, Glasgow The growth, demolition and rebuilding of the Gorbals in Glasgow is a troubled part of the city's history. During the 20th century the Gorbals was the beating heart of Glasgow. An area on the south bank of the River Clyde, near Glasgow city centre, the Gorbals became synonymous with poverty, overcrowding and the random violence of razor gangs made famous in the 1935 novel No Mean City. The Gorbals started as a single street village to the south of a new bridge built in…
FEW areas of Glasgow have changed so drastically in such a short space of time as the Gorbals did in the late 20th century.
In 1968, hymned photographer Jürgen Schadeberg was in Glasgow, Scotland. A few years earlier, he’d left his adopted South Africa to teach London’s Central School of Art & Design. A desire to see life in the old tenements in the city’s Gorbals district took him north. He photographed the everyday, the things we see … Continue reading "People of Glasgow In 1968"
Powerful Photos Of Glasgow Slums 1969-72
The Gorbals, Glasgow The growth, demolition and rebuilding of the Gorbals in Glasgow is a troubled part of the city's history. During the 20th century the Gorbals was the beating heart of Glasgow. An area on the south bank of the River Clyde, near Glasgow city centre, the Gorbals became synonymous with poverty, overcrowding and the random violence of razor gangs made famous in the 1935 novel No Mean City. The Gorbals started as a single street village to the south of a new bridge built in…
Boys in threadbare clothes looking through the window of a dilapidated shop in the poverty-stricken Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s,...
