Edit Gorbals - then and now
THEN
FOR decades, the Gorbals was a byword for urban squalor: the cliches of damp, overcrowded tenements, with crime and poverty both rife, found a natural home here.
But by the time this photograph was taken, some of the worst slums had been swept away.
In Surrey Street, an Evening Times journalist and Lord Provost Jean Roberts came across a slum single-end home, with a few sticks of furniture, a cracked sink with a cold-water tap, and an old black kitchen range.
"This is Glasgow as her critics see her, " said Mrs Roberts.
"But remember that this building will be razed in the near future.
"Thousands of people have already escaped from houses such as these to the new housing areas."
NOW
THE Gorbals the world sees today is the culmination of a decades-long process of redevelopment.
From 1953 onwards, 7400 buildings were cleared and were replaced by the new high-rise buildings.
But some of these high-rises were so poorly built and riddled with damp that they could only be inhabited for 14 years.
That was then.
Starting in the mid-80s, millions of pounds have been poured into regeneration, into innovative new housing, into stimulating the local economy, into restoring the Gorbals' self-confidence.
FOR decades, the Gorbals was a byword for urban squalor: the cliches of damp, overcrowded tenements, with crime and poverty both rife, found a natural home here.
But by the time this photograph was taken, some of the worst slums had been swept away.
In Surrey Street, an Evening Times journalist and Lord Provost Jean Roberts came across a slum single-end home, with a few sticks of furniture, a cracked sink with a cold-water tap, and an old black kitchen range.
"This is Glasgow as her critics see her, " said Mrs Roberts.
"But remember that this building will be razed in the near future.
"Thousands of people have already escaped from houses such as these to the new housing areas."
NOW
THE Gorbals the world sees today is the culmination of a decades-long process of redevelopment.
From 1953 onwards, 7400 buildings were cleared and were replaced by the new high-rise buildings.
But some of these high-rises were so poorly built and riddled with damp that they could only be inhabited for 14 years.
That was then.
Starting in the mid-80s, millions of pounds have been poured into regeneration, into innovative new housing, into stimulating the local economy, into restoring the Gorbals' self-confidence.
When i was home on holiday last Sept I stayed with my cousin who lives in the New Gorbals on Pine Ave, I loved it there we could walk into the Toon and leave the car at home .