Growing up during The Gorbals tenement clearances meant growing up hard and fast - but that didn’t stop the domineering ...

The post-war city struggled to pick itself up and the Gorbals area soon became one of Europe's worst slums. At the time, about 40,000 people lived in tenement housing, where conditions were appalling.

Glasgow was rapidly changing in the post-war years as tenement buildings were pulled down, with high rise living being the new way forward with the Gorbals being classified as one of the worst ...