My Grandmother lived her entire life in the Gorbels , my mother left the Gorbels during the Second World War to work in London , met and married my father . When I was five years old I spent a summer with my Grandmother , I lived in the close playing with the local children who would throw stones up to my Grandmothers window and shouting out , hey misses are the posh Wayne’s coming out today ? . A summer in the fifties that I will never forget. My great Grandmother escaped starvation in Ireland and established a laundry service for the wealthy , apparently a tiny women who made good from her own hard work , loosing a leg in her eighties after her foot was crushed by a tram but , went on to live into her nineties . I would have loved to have known her . Ma wee Irish granny who went from starvation to small time successful business women , who couldn’t read or write !

I came from Florence Street in the Gorbals in Glasgow in the Sixties, we then moved to the new houses in Hutcheston Town Court until I got Married then I managed to get a house in Norfolk Court and stayed there for 9yrs and then bought a house in Cardonald, but I'll always be a Gorbals Guy. 😎🇬🇧👍

I was born and brought up in the Gorbals. We didn't have much but we were happy. The neighbours were very kind and everyone helped each other. This is brilliant stuff!

my great grandmother had a hairdressers in the gorbals around this time I can never find anything about her but it's wonderful to see what she might have seen in the area at that time makes me feel connected to her somehow. thanks for sharing!

Thank you for these memories of walking these streets to visit my uncle. It gars me greet.

Thanks for sharing I enjoyed watching. Imagine Govanhill being a more affluent area.. Changed times.

In the early 1960’s the BBC sent a film crew to make a documentary about Glasgow gangs. They couldn’t find any gang members willing to be filmed, so they got a few schoolboys from Allan Glen’s Grammar school to run shouting & waving across some wasteland. My brother was one 😂

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My gorbals memory is falling out a landing window in Kidson street I still have the scars I was very lucky as I landed on mud in the back court just missing railings I was young at the time when this happened I ended up in Florence street clinic for stitches old gorbals was great

The area known as Hutchesons' Town emanates from Hutchesons' School in Crown Street where it used to be. I was pupil until the final year before it moved to Pollockshields. Nearby in Gorbals Street my father ran a Kosher butchers business.

Great film by Alex Read The reeal gorbals story next 👍

My Grandparents lived in the Gorbals.We had an infamous family member Gentleman Johnny Raminsky.

I saw my grandmother’s Block called Norfolk court, now demolished! Been there many times , very interesting, I haven’t been to Glasgow since 1984

Was up in glasgow the other day my oh my i was shocked at how all of it is now finally gone

that tenement is refurbished and new flats inside i never thought id see the day that it was ever going to be restored at laurieston gorbals street

Just came across this. I was raised in 188 Eglinton St facing the Bedford picture house.

I remember going to the steemie with my mother and crannie when I was very young.

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My family came from thistle Street did I miss it mentioned

3 peebles street💙