#gorbals — Public Fediverse posts

Maud Sulter was born in Glasgow, of Scots & Ghanaian descent: her poem “Circa 1930” argues that these two cultures “are not as disparate as they might / at first seem. Clan-based societies / With long memories and global diasporas.”

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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/maud-sulter/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poet #poetry #photography #MaudSulter #BPOC #Blackwriters #womenwriters #Scotland #Ghana #Glasgow #Gorbals

“Class-conscious we are, and class-conscious wull be
Till our fit’s on the neck o’ the Boorjoyzee.”

—Dougal, chief of the Gorbals Die-Hards, in John Buchan’s HUNTINGTOWER. Buchan’s father was a minister at the John Knox Free Church in the Gorbals

3/8

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17491019.gorbals-39-steps---can-learn-love-john-buchan/?ref=li

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Glasgow #Gorbals

“Class-conscious we are, and class-conscious wull be
Till our fit’s on the neck o’ the Boorjoyzee.”

—Dougal, chief of the Gorbals Die-Hards, in John Buchan’s HUNTINGTOWER. Buchan’s father was a minister at the John Knox Free Church in the Gorbals

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Glasgow #Gorbals
3/6
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17491019.gorbals-39-steps---can-learn-love-john-buchan/

Gorbals Backstreet, Bert Hardy, 1948

The Gorbals tenements were built in the 1840s to provide housing for Glasgow's industrial workers. Conditions were poor; and overcrowding the norm with up to eight family members sharing a single room, 30 residents sharing a toilet. In the 1920s tenements were being demolished and redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s with the tenements being replaced with a modern tower blocks in the sixties. By the 1990s these too began to come down ...

#berthardy #gorbals #gorbalsbackstreet #gorbalstenements #glasgow #photography #bwphoto #bwphotography #fotografia #fotografie #schwarzweiss #schwarzweissfotografie #blancoynegro #blancetnoir #photooftheday #photoworld #solitude #1940s #workingclasshousing #workingclass

A distant relative died recently in her 90s. Another of the #Tomintoul diaspora. She came to #Glasgow in the 1950s and worked as a community midwife...in the #Gorbals. And yes she got about the #NoMeanCity streets on a bicycle. Respect 👊. She donated her midwife's bag
(something straight out of #MaryPoppins) to Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary... and a "string bag"...to use in weighing the bairns👶 🤣
RIP #MarjoryDallas
https://womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our-projects/wmh-west-dunbartonshire/explore-the-memory-box/womanhood/