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.

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 ...