ACROSS the River Clyde from the center of Glasgow is an area of grayblack buildings, almost all of them in some stage of decay, lying between and on either side of two wide main streets that continue ...

Up to 40,000 people lived in the notorious Glasgow slum of the Gorbals in the late 1940s IT WAS the notoriously poor Glasgow slum which was rife with overcrowding and sewage running in the streets.