Glasgow Slums: 50+ Harrowing Pictures Documenting Everyday Life Of Poor Families From 1970s

#1 School girl in a Glasgow tenement courtyard 1971

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#2 Child waiting for his parents to come home Glasgow tenement 1971

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#3 Play in a derelict Glasgow tenement 1971

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#4 Glasgow tenement backs 1970

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#5 Family living in an overcrowded tenement flat Glasgow 1971

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#6 Child on a tenement staircase, Glasgow 1971

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#7 Child in damp semi derelict tenement flat Glasgow 1970

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#8 Glasgow, 1970 Sisters sharing a chair in a Gorbals slum tenement

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#9 Two children play with their doll as they pose for the camera

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#10 Two boys walking along a street in the run-down Gorbals

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#11 One of the main nightspots in the Gorbals was the Diamond Dancing Hall

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#12 A West Indian family pack into their tiny dining room in the Gorbals

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#13 Barmen serve thirsty customers at one of the 174 pubs surrounding the Gorbals area

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#14 At the kitchen sink in a tenement flat Glasgow 1970

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#15 Mother living with her children in an overcrowded single end tenement flat Glasgow 1971

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#16 Mother and sleeping child, single end tenement flat, Glasgow Maryhill 1971

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#17 Baby sleeping by the drains in a tenement courtyard Glasgow Maryhill 1971

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#18 View of tenement backs Glasgow 1971

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#19 Mother and child living in a damp and semi derelict tenement, Glasgow 1971

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#20 Children playing in a derelict tenement, Glasgow

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#21 Child crosses a Glasgow tenement courtyard 197

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#22 Unemployed colliery worker, Glasgow tenement 1971

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#23 Tenement backyard, Glasgow 1971

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#24 Children playing in a Glasgow tenement courtyard 1971

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#25 Child on a tenement staircase, Glasgow 1971

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#26 Child eat their breakfast in one of the overcrowded tenement flats, that would sometimes see up to 30 people have to share one toilet

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#27 Without many toys to play with, two young lads decide to play a game on a heap of rubbish

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#28 Children entertain themselves by playing in dirty puddle water in the slums

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#29 Two little boys in shorts and long socks play in the street

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#30 A woman carrying her shopping basket stands at the bottom of a destroyed flight of stairs

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#31 Two young boys link arms as they walk down the street in the Gorbals

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#32 A group of young children on a street in the Gorbals.

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#33 A street scene in the run-down Gorbals

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#34 A Glaswegian woman peers out of the window as she pets her cat

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#35 Without proper balls, children had to use whatever they could to enjoy a game of football

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#36 Youngsters play with toy guns around the streets of the huge neighbourhood of tenements

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#37 A woman peers out of the window of her tenement

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#38 A young boy sits on a stone and attempts to blow up his balloon in the Gorbals

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#39 Two young boys walk their dogs around the streets of the Gorbals

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#40 Men from the Gorbals meet in the local pub for a friendly smoke

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#41 The children of the Gorbals pack together to pose for the camera

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#42 Barmen work hard to serve all their customers at one of the 174 pubs near the Gorbals

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#43 View from kitchen window of Maryhill tenements, 1970

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#44 Father and child in a Maryhill tenement 1971

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#45 Teenage girls waiting in backyard of tenement block Maryhill 1971

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#46 Glasgow, 1970 A mother takes her baby inside her condemned tenement block in the Gorbals

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#47 Tenement courtyard Maryhill 1971

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#48 Mother and her baby on the staircase of her condemned Gorbals tenement 1970

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#49 Married couple in their tenement flat Maryhill 1971

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#50 Father and children Gorbals tenement 1970

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#51 Couple in a Leith tenement flat, Edinburgh 1972

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#52 Boys setting fire to waste bins Gorbals 1970

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#53 Mother takes her baby inside her condemned tenement block Gorbals 1970

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#54 Children playing in a Gorbals tenement courtyard 1970

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#55 Boys delivering newspapers Maryhill tenement back 1971

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#56 Teenage girls waiting in backyard of tenement block Maryhill 1971

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#57 Mother and baby in Gorbals tenement courtyard 1970

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#58 Father and babe in a Gorbals slum tenement 1970

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#59 Children at play in a Maryhill tenement 1971

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#60 Boy negotiating flooded entry in tenement block Maryhill 1971

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#61 Children playing in an abandoned tenement Maryhill 1971

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