The Gorbals Vampire was the target of a hunt orchestrated by Glaswegian schoolchildren in the early 1950s. In September of ...

OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS piece about the Gorbals, a notorious slum area in Glasgow, Scotland, with a history of crime & violence. It is now about to undergo a comprehensive redevelopment.

In September 1954 in Gorbals Glasgow rumours had spread among the school children of a terrible 7 foot tall vampire with iron teeth Rumour had it that this vampire had kidnapped and murdered two ...

This image, named the Gorbals Boys, is one of Hardy's most famous. It was taken in 1948 of Les Mason, left, and his friend George Davis Glasgow in the late 1940s was a place of slum housing ...