Picking Up the Pieces

Summary


THE guidebooks speak of Glasgow as a "cultured and dynamic" city, full of stylish galleries, shops, restaurants and flats. But it wasn't always like this.

The Glasgow of the immediate post-war years was a different proposition altogether: a sprawling inner-city with endless warrens of tenements, overcrowded and often unsanitary.

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Picking Up the Pieces

In 1946, a staggering 172,320 out of 281,000 city homes were deemed unacceptable "...

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