Eight old retro pictures which show the social history of Glasgow during the 1950s.The Fifties was a decade that was mainly ...

It was built in the 1950s to help clear out Glasgow’s inner city slums and is now home to more than 14,000 people. But those who live in the city’s Castlemilk were left without a major ...

For many Glaswegians their first memories will be of the high flats - these are 20 old pictures showing what life was like for those living in Glasgow towers ...

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 ...

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.