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.

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.

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 ...

Many of the tenement blocks of the Gorbals area of Glasgow, where the photographs for these clips were taken, were demolished in the 1950s. The new homes were very different from the city tenements.

Albert McCabe/Getty Images Modern housing being constructed beside old tenements in the Gorbals area However, some tower blocks quickly lost their desirability while some new peripheral schemes ...

A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.