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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 ...
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