The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and former burgh, on the south bank of the River Clyde. By the late 19th century, it had become densely populated; rural migrants and …

The Gorbals area of Glasgow has a notorious reputation that was cast in the shadows of the industry and poverty which overwhelmed the people of the area at the beginning of the 1900’s.

Feb 21, 2024 · Glasgow in the late 1940s was a place of slum housing, overcrowding and disease. The post-war city struggled to pick itself up and the Gorbals area soon became one of Europe's worst …

The Gorbals has no large industries, and few small ones, where its residents may find work. Some of the local girls have jobs at the 'hair factory,' the mattress-making establishment in Ballater Street.

The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and former burgh, on the south bank of the River Clyde. By the late 19th century, it had become densely populated; rural migrants and …

In the 19th century the Gorbals came to be associated with tenement flats built to house an expanding industrial population totalling 40,000, mostly drawn from Irish, Jewish, Indian and Pakistani immigrant …

From the middle of the 19th century onwards, the Gorbals saw the arrival of large numbers of immigrant groups. These included Highland Gaels, Italians, Irish, Lithuanians and Jews, often living in …