an area that provides a very special version of the slum problem. In its beginnings, the problem was one of immigration. A century ago, thousands of poor labourers began to arrive in Glasgow.

In 1945 around one seventh of the population of Scotland lived in just three square miles of the city centre of Glasgow, leading to serious over-crowding. Living in slum conditions led to poor ...

Twenty-five old pictures which show the social history of Glasgow during the 1950s The Fifties ... being far from an ...

Two days later, in the Glasgow slum of Camlachie, men in grimy cloth caps and women in shawls trudged out to vote. Result: Conservative Charles McFarlane, a black-browed hardware manufacturer ...

The city fathers having somehow managed to do their jobs and avoid allowing it to look like a slum - unlike, ahem, Glasgow city centre. Noto, on Thistle Street then, if you want to be hip and ...

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.

As a consequence, these slums became the breeding ground for disease ... of the personal testimony they offer. The image shows a Glasgow family pictured in 1948.