The post-war city struggled to pick itself up and the Gorbals area soon became one of Europe's worst slums. At the time, about 40,000 people lived in tenement housing, where conditions were appalling.

Albert McCabe/Getty Images Modern housing being constructed beside old tenements in the Gorbals area However, some tower blocks quickly lost their desirability while some new peripheral schemes ...

Many of the tenement blocks of the Gorbals area of Glasgow, where the photographs for these clips were taken, were demolished in the 1950s. The new homes were very different from the city tenements.

dilapidated Victorian tenements. Now the concrete tower blocks at 341 and 305 Caledonia Road, which among the last of the 16 that called the Gorbals home, look set to topple next summer.

and contrast this with Walter Fife's description of family life in the tenements of the Gorbals. ↗ Originally broadcast 16 September 1964.

A dark crimson palace almost alone on a windy stretch of the Gorbals where the old tenements had been pulled down and forbidding towers raised. Her survival seemed a miracle.” Take a look back ...

A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.