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Glasgow shop owner 'in tears' after store weeks away from opening hit by devastating blaze. Glasgow was the first town in Scotland to experience the full impact However, an effort to improve the estate has enjoyed some success since. In the Gorbals, everyman has two football teamshis own and Celtic. Pictured: A group of boys walk down a filthy street, The black and white photos were taken by London-based photographer Bert Hardy who was sent to Scotland in January 1948 to capture life in the area for the Picture Post. Note that worktops are not supplied here. Railway, and now presumably are the nation s affair. Gorbals, Lanarkshire, Scotland Genealogy FamilySearch If ever there was a top prioritynot only for the Glasgow City Corporation, but for the nation, too, if it values its self-respectit is the destruction of the old Gorbals and the building of a better one. The church was restored and reopened for worship in September 2010. Some criminals live there. Since 1945, the Citizens Theatre has been based in the area at the former Royal Princess's Theatre, an historic Victorian building. If I meet anyone new I have to give a false address." But while at first families were pleased to be out of the slums and given a new place to live, it appeared that history was repeating itself in The Gorbals. 50s & 60s - The Gangs O' Glasgow 30 Photographs Of A Glasgow Day In 1960. Drunkenness, the old Glasgow trouble, is not sensational in the district. Remembering the words and pictures that exposed Glasgow's slums in the 1940s. With Dundee, Gorbals was the first Scottish constituency to return a Labour member to Parliament That was in 1906. This reputation was very much at variance with the warm community spirit recalled by residents. . The 1960s saw the clearing of poor inner-city areas like Gorbals and the relocation to "new towns" that led to the population decline in the city. Flat in one of Glasgow's most iconic buildings up for sale for 110k - but it needs work. Gang graffiti in the Gorbals (Image: Glasgow Live) 6d. General election 1950: Glasgow Gorbals Party Candidate Votes % % Labour: Alice Cullen: 24,010 : 58.0 -22.0 : Unionist: James A Young 13,013 31.5 +11.5 Communist: Peter Kerrigan: 2,426 5.9 New: Already her dreams re losing their battle against reality. In the 1950s this was a grimy, smoggy place that had been heavily impacted by pollution . Even so, the Glasgow Corporationwhich has the greatest responsibilityis slow to move; and in the Gorbals the theory is widely held that 'the Corporation is no longer shockable. And anyway, a man seeking to move now is lucky if he can find a place to go.