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Glasgow Live
Glasgow Live
National
David McLean

Time warp photos take us back to the Gorbals tower blocks of the 1980s

Few places better exemplify post-war urban renewal in Scotland than the Gorbals, an area which has been repeatedly developed over the past 50 years.

Since the end of the Second World War, the Gorbals has witnessed massive changes that have rendered it unrecognisable.

A new Gorbals emerged in the 1960s that saw much of the area's Victorian tenement stock razed as part of a major slum clearance programme.

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