Boys in threadbare clothes looking through the window of a dilapidated shop in the poverty-stricken Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Gorbals tenements...
{"Image ImageDescription": "31st January 1948:  Boys in threadbare clothes looking through the window of a dilapidated shop in the poverty-stricken Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s, providing housing for Glasgow's burgeoning population of industrial workers. Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate. The tenements housed about 40,000 people with up to eight family members sharing a single room, 30 residents sharing a toilet and 40 sharing a tap. By the time this photograph was taken 850 tenements had been demolished since 1920. Redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s and the tenements were replaced with a modern tower block complex in the sixties. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4499 - The Forgotten Gorbals - pub. 1948  (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)"}